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When Scuderia Ferrari gave author Peter Wright access to team principals and to Michael Schumacher's 2000 championship-winning car, he provided a rarely-seen look at the inner workings of a championship vehicle - technical specifications, assembly drawings, functional details, and performance analysis.

Wright, a former Team Lotus engineer, capitalized on this unique opportunity and the result is Ferrari Formula 1: Under the Skin of the Championship-Winning F1-2000. By combining Ferrari's own technical drawings, computer models, and photos with candid interviews with Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn, and others, this book provide readers with an unprecedented level of detail and understanding of Formula 1 technology.

Ferrari Formula 1 also examines the team - Scuderia Ferrari - and its technical partners. While understanding the design of winning race cars is important, understanding how the people and companies work together is crucial to gaining the winning edge.

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How important is a tenth of a second?
In racing, it can simply mean the difference between winning and losing. In many cases, finding that tenth of a second may well lie in the accuracy of the set-up of the car - the actual hands-on aspects the engineering.

Hands-On Race Car Engineering looks at every part of the process required to make a car better than its competitors. Drivers will gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the vehicle. Race engineers will better understand the practical implications of set-up. Design engineers will gain insight into practical applications of their designs. Mechanics will better understand why engineers design things a certain way. In short, this book will help racing professionals and enthusiasts learn to recognize why they won, or lost a race - key information to continually improving and reaching the winner's circle.

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The 53 technical papers in this book show the improvements and design techniques that researchers have applied to performance and racing engines. They provide an insight into what the engineers consider to be the top improvements needed to advance engine technology. Design of Racing and High-Performance Engines is an update to an earlier version edited by Joseph Harralson (Design of Racing and High-Performance Engines, 1995, PT-53, published by SAE), and picks up where Harralson's book leaves off, examining the progression of technology in racing and high performance engines from 1998 through early 2003.

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Formula 1 Technology offers an in-depth look at the engineering, design and production of Formula 1 cars. It focuses on the most technically challenging years, showing how the technology and engineering have evolved from mechanical systems, most of which one could hold in the hand, look at closely, and see how they should work, to systems dominated by silicon wafers so small one can hardly see them.

Author Peter Wright identifies and outlines five parameters -- Power, Weight, Tire Grip, Drag and Lift -- and shows how each can be maximized. In addition, he describes the variety of technologies (including those that have been banned over the years) that are involved, not just in the makeup of the Formula 1 cars, but also in the component manufacturing, systems testing, and the actual racing of the cars.

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William F. Milliken Jr. and Douglas L. Milliken

Written for the engineer as well as the race car enthusiast, Race Car Vehicle Dynamics is truly comprehensive in its coverage of the fundamental concepts of vehicle dynamics and their application in a racing environment. Race Car Vehicle Dynamics has become the definitive reference on this topic. Although the book's primary focus is the race car, the engineering fundamentals it details are also applicable to passenger car design and engineering.

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William F. Milliken Jr. and Douglas L. Milliken

Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis is based on Maurice Olley's technical writings, and is the first complete presentation of his life and work. This new book provides insight into the development of chassis technology and its practical application by a master. Many examples are worked out in the text and the analytical developments are grounded by Olley's years of design experience.

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Paul Haney

Based on 15 years of research on tires, Paul Haney's The Racing and High-Performance Tire presents clear, non-academic explanations of how and why tires really work.

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Carroll Smith's "To Win" series of books, Prepare to Win, Drive to Win, Tune to Win, Engineer to Win, and Carroll Smith's Handbook of Nuts, Bolts, and Fasteners have become the world wide "bibles" of race car preparation and tuning.

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Published by Carroll Smith/Aero Publishers/Motorbooks International. Distributed by SAE.

1060 pp., Paperbound 1996.

$79.20 SAE Member; $99.00 List

Order No. B-706.SET

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