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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found"How to Make Your Car Handle"to be a very informative catologue of knowledge.The book helped me understand and achieve the desired aim resulting in near perfect handling of my oval race car,it just needs the driver to come up to the standard of the cars set-up.200 pages of an absolute must for any person associated in motor racing.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A useful book for explaining the basics, but does not go into enough detail.
There is a heavy American slant to all things in this book, which is distracting as a lot of the motorsports referenced would not be known outside of the USA. The road vehicles are very limited to a few American models. This could be useful if you are modifying an American car, but less so if you are using a European or even Japanese car.
There is a heavy American slant to all things in this book, which is distracting as a lot of the motorsports referenced would not be known outside of the USA. The road vehicles are very limited to a few American models. This could be useful if you are modifying an American car, but less so if you are using a European or even Japanese car.
Overall a good book for getting the feel of what is involved, but not necessarily a reference tome.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book will allow you to develop your car and by bettering your understanding of how it works make you a better driver.
I'd raced cars for 4 years in classic car races and struggled to develop my car and myself as a driver. After reading Fred's book the reasonings and methods fell into place and my car developed year after year (5 championship wins) and my driving came along at a similar pace.
Don't get me wrong, the information Fred gives is allready out there, I'd read it before, I just couldn't understand it! When he describes affects, and methodology to overcome and develop the car and its dynamic forces he is certainly bang on the money!
Don't expect a "if you drive an Aston Martin DBV do this to the steering, or a MK 1 mini needs 2 deg negative camber to corner better" like the subject this book is in much more detail than that. Also other than a few passing references most of the car models mentioned are American or Asian, but the doesn't change the dynamics which affect them. What the book will describe is what forces affect your car, how to measure them, how to build or adjust your car to minimise or negate them, and as a driver how to recognise them and what information to tell a mechanic to make your car go faster. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HOW IMPORTANT THIS LAST POINT IS.
I've been in paddocks where a race car driver says "the car corners like it's on rails" bad news ! the driver is not driving it fast enough ! Any car will lose adhesion and break away if driven fast enough, describing whats happening "understeer in corner 1 and oversteer under power on corner 5 with cross car weight change in the hairpin and understeer" allows your pit crew to change the settings on the car and better it's performance. This book allows a driver to understand the feedbacks he gets from the car and convert it into meanings that the mechanics can act on.
IF THE DRIVER DOES NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT HE CAN CONTROL THE CAR AT OR BEYOND THE LIMIT OF CONTROL HE IS RELUCTANT TO DRIVE IN THAT AREA.
Having confidence that by changing the technical set up of the car can change the handling characteristics IN THE WAT THE DRIVER WANTS is a major step forward. This means having a developed car which has had it's vices removed or minimised, which allows changes or developments to the car to only alter one characteristic at a time. This book allows you to develop your car to achieve this.
If you are serious about developing your car this book is essential!
I'd raced cars for 4 years in classic car races and struggled to develop my car and myself as a driver. After reading Fred's book the reasonings and methods fell into place and my car developed year after year (5 championship wins) and my driving came along at a similar pace.
Don't get me wrong, the information Fred gives is allready out there, I'd read it before, I just couldn't understand it! When he describes affects, and methodology to overcome and develop the car and its dynamic forces he is certainly bang on the money!
Don't expect a "if you drive an Aston Martin DBV do this to the steering, or a MK 1 mini needs 2 deg negative camber to corner better" like the subject this book is in much more detail than that. Also other than a few passing references most of the car models mentioned are American or Asian, but the doesn't change the dynamics which affect them. What the book will describe is what forces affect your car, how to measure them, how to build or adjust your car to minimise or negate them, and as a driver how to recognise them and what information to tell a mechanic to make your car go faster. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HOW IMPORTANT THIS LAST POINT IS.
I've been in paddocks where a race car driver says "the car corners like it's on rails" bad news ! the driver is not driving it fast enough ! Any car will lose adhesion and break away if driven fast enough, describing whats happening "understeer in corner 1 and oversteer under power on corner 5 with cross car weight change in the hairpin and understeer" allows your pit crew to change the settings on the car and better it's performance. This book allows a driver to understand the feedbacks he gets from the car and convert it into meanings that the mechanics can act on.
IF THE DRIVER DOES NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT HE CAN CONTROL THE CAR AT OR BEYOND THE LIMIT OF CONTROL HE IS RELUCTANT TO DRIVE IN THAT AREA.
Having confidence that by changing the technical set up of the car can change the handling characteristics IN THE WAT THE DRIVER WANTS is a major step forward. This means having a developed car which has had it's vices removed or minimised, which allows changes or developments to the car to only alter one characteristic at a time. This book allows you to develop your car to achieve this.
If you are serious about developing your car this book is essential!
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