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Buried in the English countryside, the Catesby Tunnel is an automotive testing facility like no other. We saw it for ourselves. A pparently, my rear wheels are out of balance. I notice what feels ...
It’s part of a bigger project to really understand all our test systems and to get correlations, so that we’re confident when we bring gains from one place to the real world, we’re going to actually ...
The owners of Catesby Tunnel test track hope to attract more customers from across Europe. ... Brabham and Sauber amongst others and has been involved in the Catesby Tunnel project since day one.
From fine tuning a production model's aero to driving an F1 car upside down, everything's (theoretically) possible in the 1.6-mile Catesby Tunnel.
A 1.6-mile abandoned railway tunnel in the United Kingdom has been converted into a supercar test track. Part of the former Great Central Main Line, the Catesby Tunnel will soon become a 24/7 ...
Built in 1897, the 1.7-mile Catesby Tunnel is now an alternative to a wind tunnel. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Oct 20, 2022 9:24 am | 93 A Mazda RT-24P emerges from the Catesby Tunnel.
The project was delayed by a three-year study of bat numbers and has resulted in them having the last 30m of the tunnel to themselves, meaning that it has taken almost four-times as long to take ...
Rob Lewis from Catesby Tunnel Ltd has seen the testing tunnel take shape over the last six years Everything from radios to racing cars have been put through their paces in a unique test tunnel ...
Catesby Tunnel opened in July 1898 as a dual-rail Victorian-era railway runnel and was constructed with approximately 30 million bricks. It closed to trains in 1966, ...
He designed F1 cars for Williams, Brabham and Sauber amongst others and has been involved in the Catesby Tunnel project since day one. Image source, Martin Heath/BBC. Image caption, ...
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