FORMULA 1: Engineering Speed, Strategy, and Spectacle: The Science, technology, History, and Human Stories Behind the World's Fastest Racing Machines

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The pinnacle of motor sport. Finally explained like it actually deserves to be. Twenty cars. Over 200 miles an hour. Corners taken at margins that shouldn't be physically possible. You already know Formula 1 is fast but do you know why a car that looks nearly identical to last year's model can be a full second quicker? Do you know what a race engineer is actually saying over the radio? Do you know why a two-tenths-of-a-second pit stop gets treated like a miracle? Most books make you choose: the engineering, dense and jargon-heavy, written for people who already speak the language or the drama, thrilling but shallow, that never explains why any of it actually matters. This book refuses to make you choose. Formula 1: Engineering Speed, Strategy, and Spectacle takes you from the sport's first rulebook in 1950 to the radical new regulations reshaping it right now and connects every piece of engineering to the human beings who built it, drove it, and sometimes died proving it worked. Inside, you'll finally understand: Why downforce matters more than horsepower and how a car "sucks" itself onto the track The carbon fiber breakthrough that turned Formula 1 from a death sport into one of the safest in the world What a race engineer, strategist, and twenty-person pit crew are actually doing during those two seconds that decide races The rivalries, tragedies, and quiet acts of sportsmanship that gave the sport its soul Exactly what's changing in Formula 1's biggest regulation reset in over a decade and why You don't need to know what a monocoque is to start this book. You'll finish it seeing every single Grand Prix differently as an engineer, a strategist, and a fan, all at once. If you've ever wondered what you're actually watching when the lights go out, this is the book that finally tells you.

商品の重量:	249 g
寸法:	13.97 x 0.86 x 21.59 cm
ISBN-13:	979-8193753001
ASIN:	B0HFZSYXRY
発売日:	2026/8/19
言語:	英語