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Race Car Aerodynamics - Designing for Speed

Over the past 15 years, author Joseph Katz has been involved with aerodynamic development in the most competitive areas of motorsport today. From Formula One, to Indy Car, Drag and Sedan Racing, this book provides clear explanations for both engineers who want to improve their design skills, and enthusiasts who want to understand how their favourite cars go fast.

Katz explains:
- How aerodynamics win races.
- Why downforce is more important than streamlining and drag reduction.
- Designing wings and venturis-what works and what doesn't.
- Wind tunnel designs, methods and results-what you can and cannot believe.
- Full definitions of terms, with equations and examples provided for determining key aerodynamic parameters like drag, lift and side-force coefficients, fluid viscosity, or wind-tunnel corrections.

Numerous examples using specific race cars, passenger-based prototypes, and open-wheel designs.

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Author:	Joseph Katz
Details:	280 pages, 26.5 x 20 x 2.1 cm / 10.4 x 7.9 x 0.83 in, paperback
Illustrations:	285 photos and drawings
Publisher:	Bentley Publishers (USA, 1996)
ISBN:	9780837601427

Competition Car Aerodynamics - A Practical Handbook (3rd Edition)

The field of aerodynamics has had an increasingly significant effect on performance enhancement over the past 50 years. "Competition Car Aerodynamics" continues the practical, hands-on approach of its popular predecessors to cover all aspects of motorsport aerodynamics and features yet more CFD and wind tunnel project material and case studies.

Aerodynamic theory is tackled in a comprehensive yet comprehensible way by author Simon McBeath, who has been granted unprecedented access to state of the art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques, as well as regular access to the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel in the UK.

Photographs, graphs, CFD-generated images and wind tunnel data - much of which has appeared in the successful Aerobytes series in Racecar Engineering - are used to explain with unrivalled clarity how aerodynamic performance benefits are obtained in practice.

With case studies from Formula 1, sports prototypes, Formula 3, GT and saloon cars, club single seaters and karts, this book will appeal to anyone, whether a designer, competitor, student or armchair enthusiast, wishing to gain an understanding of aerodynamics and how it can benefit the performance of all types of competition cars.

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Author:	Simon McBeath
Details:	320 pages, 23.5 x 17 x 2.9 cm / 9.25 x 6.7 x 1.14 in, paperback
Illustrations:	316 photos and drawings
Publisher:	Veloce Publishing Ltd (GB, 2017)
ISBN:	9781787111028

The Leading Edge - Aerodynamic Design of Ultra-streamlined Land Vehicles

"The Leading Edge" summarizes the aerodynamic design and construction issues of solar cars and ultralight land vehicles. Author Goro Tamai draws on his own experience in designing solar cars at MIT to produce a book for the ground-up streamlined land-vehicle designer or constructor, as well as for the solar/electric/ultralight vehicle enthusiast.

As with any engineering problem, the "best" body shape for solar cars, HPVs, or Electrathoners is not the body of absolute lowest drag. The vehicle system, including the driver, chassis, and energy/drive system must work in concert to produce the maximum output.
"The Leading Edge" will help designers quantify the trade-offs, and make logical decisions.

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Author:	Goro Tamai
Details:	292 pages, 28 x 21 x 1.7 cm / 11 x 8.25 x 0.67 in, paperback
Illustrations:	315 photos and drawings
Publisher:	Bentley Publishers (USA, 1999)
ISBN:	9780837608600

How to Build a Succesful Low-cost Rally Car (Veloce SpeedPro)

This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain ensures you don't break the engine-mountings.

Simple, cost-effective, basic and reliable tips to ensure any rally car stands a chance of reaching the finishing line. From the lanes of Devon at night, to romping the wilderness of Mongolia, this book is full of illustrated detailed tips, as well as pictures of typical low cost cars setting out on international events.

If you are planning any road-based rally, don't even think of leaving home before you've reading this book and implementing the tried and tested mods it describes so well.

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Author:	Philip Young
Details:	96 pages, 25 x 21 x 0.9 cm / 9.8 x 8.25 x 0.35 in, paperback
Illustrations:	150 illustrations
Publisher:	Veloce Publishing Ltd (GB, 2009)
Series:	SpeedPro
ISBN:	9781845842086