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Digging deep into F1
Well illustrated and wide-ranging, this explains every component of the modern grand prix car, says Gordon Cruickshank
Confession time: I’m not much interested in F1 drivers’ wages, their social media blunders or their ‘mental challenges for the forthcoming season’. I am interested in the racing, and especially the machinery they’re in charge of. As one-time technical editor at Haynes of much-missed manuals memory (and he wrote three on race cars), Steve Rendle is well placed to show us what is underneath all those sponsor stickers, to back up the informed insight that Mark Hughes gives us.
Using generous graphics (many by Giorgio Piola) and well-chosen photos, the book takes us through the physical components from suspension shim to entire monocoques, as well as the less visible elements – aerodynamics, hydraulics, the incredible balancing act the ERS does between harvesting and applying energy.