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Author: Simon Mcbeath
Publisher: David & Charles
Imprint: Veloce
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.900kg
ISBN: 9781787111028
ISBN 10: 1787111024
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 February 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
For those who are seriously into racing, this book is very valuable. However, you must have some arithmetic knowledge, because the book with formulas helps you to calculate the downward and upward pressure. But it is very easy to explain what aerodynamics entails and which involved it on your racing car. On the basis of cases, you will be helped to understand the influence of the many different factors on aerodynamics and then how to play with this. In fact, a textbook that helps the fervent racer make the most of his car. This is very useful for the target group.- Klassiek & Techniek.
For those who are seriously into racing, this book is very valuable. However, you must have some arithmetic knowledge, because the book with formulas helps you to calculate the downward and upward pressure. But it is very easy to explain what aerodynamics entails and which involved it on your racing car. On the basis of cases, you will be helped to understand the influence of the many different factors on aerodynamics and then how to play with this. In fact, a textbook that helps the fervent racer make the most of his car. This is very useful for the target group.- Klassiek & Techniek. Competition Car Aerodynamics - A Practical Handbook, by Simon McBeath, is exactly what it says it is: a practical guide to the application or aerodynamic understanding in regards to racing cars. This 305-page third edition comprises 10 chapters plus five appendices and includes a foreword by Williem Toet, a Formula 1 aerodynamicist with more than 30 years' experience. This book is comprehensively illustrated, with clearly labelled diagrams, graphs and pictures. What makes is a great read, whether you are just starting your motorsport career or are simply an armchair enthusiast wanting to understand more, is that is assumes you know very little about the subject. But it does not dumb it down - instead it walks you through each topic, building up your understanding. - Autosport.
Author Information
Simon McBeath is a life-long motorsport enthusiast and has been a competitor for over 30 years. Press officer for Gurston Down Speed Hillclimb, where he is a Hillclimb School instructor, Simon also regularly contributes as a freelance writer to Racecar Engineering and other magazines. Aerodynamics articles have always been a speciality of Racecar Engineering, with its monthly column, ‘Aerobytes,’ launched in 2003, carrying out wind tunnel and CFD studies on a wide range of competition cars. Simon also provides an aerodynamics advisory service, SM AeRo Techniques.
