Racing Green

How Motorsport Science Can Save the World – THE RAC MOTORING BOOK OF THE YEAR

Kit Chapman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Sigma (Verlag)
978-1-4729-8219-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Kit Chapman is an award-winning journalist, adventurer and motorsports fan. With more than a decade of experience writing for titles such as Nature, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Physics World and the Daily Telegraph, his work has taken him to more than 75 countries as he seeks amazing tales from the cutting edge of science. Kit has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sunderland and a masters degree in pharmacy from the University of Bradford.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	8-page colour section
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Motor- / Rad- / Flugsport
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4729-8219-3 / 1472982193
ISBN-13	978-1-4729-8219-3 / 9781472982193
Zustand	Neuware