Kit Chapman

Racing Green (MP3-Download)

How Motorsport Science Can Save the World – THE RAC MOTORING BOOK OF THE YEAR Ungekürzte Lesung. 624 Min.
Sprecher: Nayak, Chris

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Produktbeschreibung

Bloomsbury presents Racing Green by Kit Chapman, read by Chris Nayak. 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 innovation. These innovations, first developed for racing, have been incorporated into everyday car designs to improve their safety – from ABS brakes to crash helmets – and ecological impact, via electric engines and more efficient fuels and tyres. Author Kit Chapman is a lifelong motorsports 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399403238
• Artikelnr.: 70166821

Autorenporträt

Kit Chapman is an award-winning journalist and adventurer. With more than a decade of experience writing for titles such as Nature, New Scientist, Chemistry World, Physics World and the Daily Telegraph, his work has taken him to more than 75 countries as he seeks amazing tales from the cutting edge of science. Kit has a PhD in the history of science from the University of Sunderland, is a lecturer at Falmouth University and a contributor to Formula One's F1 Global Exhibition, currently on tour around the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: THE FASTEST R&D LAB ON EARTH
Chapter One: Fire and ICE
Chapter Two: Speeding Bullets
Chapter Three: Together in Electric Dreams
Chapter Four: Applying the Brakes
Chapter Five: The Last Airbenders
Chapter Six: Going with the Flow
Chapter Seven: Virtually There
PART II: RACING FOR LIFE
Chapter Eight: The Full Might of What We Can Do
Chapter Nine: Matters of Life and Death
Chapter Ten: Twenty-Seven Seconds
Chapter Eleven: Rise of the Robots
PART III: THE MATERIAL WORLD
Chapter Twelve: Flax, Fibres and Floating Frogs
Chapter Thirteen: All That's Fit to Print
Chapter Fourteen: Fuelling the Future
Chapter Fifteen: The Terrible History of Tyres
Chapter Sixteen: Going to Extremes
Appendix: Martin, Mosler & Me
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

Chapman writes engagingly about the benefits motor racing has brought to a climate problem that needs all hands on the wheel.