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• Ducati Paso
  ...financial difficulties Ducati was in a state of animation with regards to engineering development. By that time, the classic bevel drive V-twin, which was old an ...ne the bike and its motor in a close-fitting integral fairing that hid all mechanical parts. The bike was equipped with latest-generation technical features: squ
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• Prototype
  ...e design is to be expected. Often prototypes are built using very limited engineering detail as compared to final production intent. ...atch the intended final performance of the product and some allowances and engineering judgement are often required before moving forward with a production design
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• De Rosa
  ...iddle school and a technical school where he followed a [[mechanical]] and engineering curriculum. He developed a passion for bicycle racing as a young boy, a pas
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• Ceramic
  ...th [[strontium titanate]]) displays [[ferroelectricity]], meaning that its mechanical, electrical, and thermal responses are coupled to one another and also hist ...impart [[transformation toughened ceramics|transformation toughening]] for mechanical applications; most ceramic knife blades are made of this material.
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• Jarno Saarinen
  ...o an accomplished [[motorcycle speedway]] racer. He had studied mechanical engineering and thus could fix his bike in addition to riding it. These skills allowed
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• Pushrod
  In [[automotive engineering]], an '''overhead valve''' [[internal combustion engine]] is one in which t ...neumatic valve springs]]. High-revving pushrod engines are normally solid (mechanical) lifter designs, flat and roller. In 1969, [[Chevrolet]] offered a Corvette
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ...nternal combustion engine]] (ICE) and an [[electric motor]] connected to a mechanical [[Transmission_%28mechanics%29|transmission]]. Most designs combine a large The advantage of a series hybrid is the lack of a mechanical link between the combustion engine and the wheels. The combustion engine ru
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• Swedish Grand Prix
  ...ifying resulted in pole position for [[Vittorio Brambilla]] in his [[March Engineering|March]], Lauda qualified fifth fastest and his teammate [[Clay Regazzoni]] ...ll]] P34'''. The theory was that its four tiny front wheels would increase mechanical front-end grip – with more rubber on the road – and thus eliminate [[un
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• Ferrari F2002
  ...d initially did not represent the same performance gains as the mechanical engineering. Thus Ferrari continued its design for another two months and only first us
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• Gull-wing door
  ...using a [[Steel|solid-steel]] torsion bar (supplied by [[Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation]]) to counterbalance a full-sized door and then used simple pne ...o combine the advantages of all the designs, though with considerably more mechanical complexity.
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• Hydropneumatic suspension
  ...stem, typically by adding layers of complexity to an ordinary steel spring mechanical system. ...d War II]], Paul Magès, an employee of Citroën, with no formal training in engineering, secretly develops the concept of an air/oil suspension to combine a new le
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• Dante Giacosa
  ...was engineering manager at Fiat by 1937 and he had become director of the engineering division of Fiat by 1950. ...ion for good handling and ride quality. It was with a 508C chassis that as engineering manager Dante Giacosa led a team that developed the Fiat 508CMM a streamlin
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• Chris Amon
  ...entered the Cooper for the New Zealand winter series, but was hampered by mechanical problems. However, [[Scuderia Veloce]] entered him in a similar car, and, i ...nine laps, however, an oil fire ended his race. He continued to experience mechanical problems at the [[1963 Dutch Grand Prix|Dutch]], [[1963 Mexican Grand Prix|
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• Understeer
  As with oversteer, understeer has a variety of sources such as mechanical traction, aerodynamics and suspension. ...ornering situation, thus causing the front-end of the vehicle to have less mechanical grip and become unable to follow the trajectory in the corner.
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• OMC
  ...which his countrymen passed by the state of laborers to skilled workers in engineering, Bruzzese decided it was time to deal with a production of more complex, li It ended well, after a decade of success, the brief experience of Mechanical Workshops Calabresi.
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• Wheel
  [[bearing (mechanical)|Bearings]] are used to reduce friction at the interface. ...with ''μ'' = 0.5, the [[normal force]] is 981 [[newton|N]] and the [[Mechanical work|work]] done (required [[energy]]) is (work=force x distance) 981 &tim
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• Horsepower
  ...und-force|lbf]]·[[minute|min]]⁻¹. This is sometimes called a ''mechanical'' horsepower to distinguish it from the other definitions of horsepower bel ...or [[steam engine]]s in the [[19th century]] but is misleading because the mechanical efficiency of an engine means that the actual power output may be only 70%
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• Oversteer
  The tendency of a car to oversteer is affected by several factors such as mechanical traction, aerodynamics and suspension, and driver control. The driving tec ...happens when the rear tires exceed the limits of their lateral [[traction (engineering)|traction]] during a cornering situation before the front tires do, thus ca
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• Ferrari FF
  ...nt [[Haldex Traction|haldex]]-type [[clutch]]es, without a [[differential (mechanical device)|differential]].
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• Niki Lauda
  | Team(s) || [[March Engineering|March]], [[British Racing Motors|BRM]], [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]], [[Bra ...ured by a life insurance policy, to buy his way into the fledgling [[March Engineering|March]] team as a [[Formula 2]] (F2) driver in 1971. He was quickly promot
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