Lest: How to Build a Car
Forfatter: Adrian Newey
Type / Sjanger: Selvbiografi
Rating (1-5): 4
Medium: Bok
Omtale:
The autobiography of Adrian Newey, the world-renowned Formula 1 designer, explores his illustrious 35-year career in engineering and offers insight into his unique understanding of drivers and racing cars.
Notes & Highlights:
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.'
Damon Hill
The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir.
How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian’s unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he’s been involved.
A true engineering genius, even in adolescence, Adrian’s thoughts naturally emerged in shape and form – he began sketching his own car designs at the age of 12 and took a welding course in his school summer holidays. From his early career in IndyCar racing and on to his unparalleled success in Formula One, we learn in comprehensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. Adrian has designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, always with a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster. And while his career has been marked by unbelievable triumphs, there have also been deep tragedies, most notably Ayrton Senna’s death during his time at Williams in 1994.
Beautifully illustrated with never-before-seen drawings,
How to Build a Car encapsulates, through Adrian’s remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula One so thrilling – its potential for the total synchronicity of man and machine, the perfect combination of style, efficiency and speed.
Mine Highlights:
‘Right,’ he said, ‘when can you start?’ As interviews go, it beat sitting in the British Leyland canteen. — location: 775 ^ref-57195
I began at Fittipaldi with the title of ‘junior aerodynamicist’, but because they didn’t have any other aerodynamicists, I was senior aerodynamicist as well. — location: 780 ^ref-28246
Like so many gifted natural drivers, he would adapt his driving to whatever the car was doing and then report what the car was doing once he’d adapted his driving, rather than communicating what the car would do if he drove it the way he wanted to drive it. — location: 3793 ^ref-51931
Apparently, Ferrari tried the fourth pedal approach and couldn’t get it to work, so as normal they complained about it, meaning that the Melbourne weekend was abuzz with controversy surrounding the legality of our system. — location: 3814 ^ref-63787
There was a meeting culture and too much cosy talk reporting what we had done, and not enough thought about what we should do next. — location: 4482 ^ref-33888
I also introduced a culture that meetings should only be deemed a success if a clear set of ideas and actions came from them; they should not be used simply to read out reports that should have already been read prior to the meeting. — location: 4503 ^ref-5363
At Valencia, Helmut, diplomatic as ever, approached Mark in practice and said, ‘Mark, you’re always shit at Valencia; will this year be any different?’ which is not really the best way to motivate a driver. — location: 5073 ^ref-23159
He’s a tremendously friendly guy. True, he’s gone a bit showbiz in recent years, but he’s one of the few drivers who will stop and chat, give people the time of day. — location: 5397 ^ref-58416
I was lucky because the Queen herself was giving out the awards that day, and when I stepped forward to receive mine she said, ‘Ah yes, I remember you; you’re the man who showed my husband around McLaren when he got stuck in a racing car.’ — location: 5613 ^ref-42231
They specified that the engine must be a V6 engine of 1.5-litre capacity with a specified bore and stroke. Only one spark plug per cylinder. Only one fuel injector per cylinder. A single turbocharger drives an electric motor to recover heat from the exhaust system. An electric motor linked to the crankshaft, both of those electric motors are then linked to a battery and capable of driving or being driven by the battery. — location: 5641 ^ref-22117
Antall sider: 400
Utgitt: 02-11-2017
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9780008196806
Serie: Ingen.
