Racing Green : How Motorsport Science Can Save the World - THE RAC MOTORING BOOK OF THE YEAR

Chapman, Kit

Bloomsbury Sigma（2023/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781472982193
• DDC分類 796.720286

Full Description

Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly.

Motor racing is already one of the most scientifically demanding sports: it involves a combination of peak physical and mental skill, world-class mechanical nous and perennial technological innovation. These innovations, first developed for racing, have been incorporated into everyday car designs to improve their safety - from ABS brakes to crash helmets - and ecological impact, via electric engines and more efficient fuels and tyres.

Author Kit Chapman is a lifelong motorsports fan who has previously worked with Virgin Racing's Formula E team on the chemistry and material science of their cars. With help from his wide range of contacts in the industry, Kit criss-crosses the globe from Ohio to Monaco, Spain to Bahrain. He steps behind the scenes of current engineering breakthroughs, picking up extraordinary tales along the way, such as that of maverick designer Warren Mosler who designed a car so fast it was banned from racing.

Part travelogue, part historical retrospective, Racing Green combines visits to the experts with lively retellings of real-life incidents that became milestones in modern car development. Kit looks at the breadth of racing, both its glories and its tragedies, revealing the industry as a driving force for progress, and where it's on track to take us next.

Contents

Introduction

PART I: THE FASTEST R&D LAB ON EARTH
Chapter One: Fire and ICE
Chapter Two: Speeding Bullets
Chapter Three: Together in Electric Dreams
Chapter Four: Applying the Brakes
Chapter Five: The Last Airbenders
Chapter Six: Going with the Flow
Chapter Seven: Virtually There

PART II: RACING FOR LIFE
Chapter Eight: The Full Might of What We Can Do
Chapter Nine: Matters of Life and Death
Chapter Ten: Twenty-Seven Seconds
Chapter Eleven: Rise of the Robots

PART III: THE MATERIAL WORLD
Chapter Twelve: Flax, Fibres and Floating Frogs
Chapter Thirteen: All That's Fit to Print
Chapter Fourteen: Fuelling the Future
Chapter Fifteen: The Terrible History of Tyres
Chapter Sixteen: Going to Extremes

Appendix: Martin, Mosler & Me
Acknowledgments
Index