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Racing green : how motorsport science can save the world / Kit Chapman.
Van Pelt Library GV1019.2 .C43 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Kit (Science journalist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motorsports--Social aspects.
- Motorsports.
- Motorsports--Environmental aspects.
- Motorsports--Technological innovations.
- Climatic changes--Prevention.
- Climatic changes.
- Accidents--Prevention.
- Accidents.
- Automobiles--Environmental aspects.
- Automobiles.
- Accident Prevention.
- Medical Subjects:
- Accident Prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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 innovations. These innovations, first developed for racing, have been incorporated into everyday car designs to improve their safety -- from ABS brakes to crash helmets -- an ecological impact, via electric engines and more efficient fuels and tyres. Author Kit Chapman is a lifelong motorsport 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:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE FASTEST R&D LAB ON EARTH
- ch. One Fire and ICE
- ch. Two Speeding Bullets
- ch. Three Together in Electric Dreams
- ch. Four Applying the Brakes
- ch. Five The Last Airbenders
- ch. Six Going with the Flow
- ch. Seven Virtually There
- pt. II RACING FOR LIFE
- ch. Eight The Full Might of What We Can Do
- ch. Nine Matters of Life and Death
- ch. Ten Twenty-Seven Seconds
- ch. Eleven Rise of the Robots
- pt. III THE MATERIAL WORLD
- ch. Twelve Flax, Fibres and Floating Frogs
- ch. Thirteen All That's Fit to Print
- ch. Fourteen Fuelling the Future
- ch. Fifteen The Terrible History of Tyres
- ch. Sixteen Going to Extremes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781472982179
- 1472982177
- 9781472982162
- 1472982169
- OCLC:
- 1263663393
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