Competition Car Downforce: A Practical Handbook - Hardcover

McBeath, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859606628 ISBN 13: 9781859606629

Publisher: Haynes Manuals Inc, 2000

Synopsis

If you're looking to improve the performance and handling of your car, you can with this highly readable and well-illustrated guide to all the main aspects of downforce devices. Chock full of interviews with experts and data from major constructors, this book addresses the theory of downforce lift and drag, wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics, plus airdams, splitters, spoilers and wings. Includes legislation, restrictions and regulations. Foreword by Gordon Murray.

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Synopsis

This guide to all the main aspects of downforce devices relevant to the principal competition car classes should be of interest to competition drivers, both amateur and professional constructors and designers of competition vehicles, and manufacturers and assemblers of kit cars, all seeking to improve performance and handling. It includes: downforce-inducing and lift-reducing devices from the early days to the present; data from major constructors, interviews with experts, and reports from race team bases; the theory of downforce lift and drag for road vehicles; wind tunnels and computational fluid dynamics; airdams, splitters, spoilers and wings; manufacturers of downforce-inducing parts; case studies from Formula 1, IndyCar, Formula 3000, Formula 3, sports cars, saloons, rally cars, club formulae, hillclimb and sprint cars, dragsters and motorcycles; and legislation, restrictions and regulations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haynes Manuals Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859606628
• ISBN 13: 9781859606629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208