How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer. Adrian Newey. Читать онлайн. Newlib. NEWLIB.NET

Автор: Adrian Newey
Издательство: HarperCollins
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Жанр произведения: Биографии и Мемуары
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isbn: 9780008196813
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CHAPTER 33

       CHAPTER 34

       CHAPTER 35

       CHAPTER 36

       CHAPTER 37

       Turn Five

       HOW TO BUILD AN FW16

       CHAPTER 38

       CHAPTER 39

       CHAPTER 40

       CHAPTER 41

       CHAPTER 42

       CHAPTER 43

       CHAPTER 44

       CHAPTER 45

       CHAPTER 46

       CHAPTER 47

       CHAPTER 48

       Turn Six

       HOW TO BUILD AN FW18

       CHAPTER 49

       CHAPTER 50

       CHAPTER 51

       Turn Seven

       HOW TO BUILD AN MP4 13

       CHAPTER 52

       CHAPTER 53

       CHAPTER 54

       CHAPTER 55

       CHAPTER 56

       CHAPTER 57

       CHAPTER 58

       Turn Eight

       HOW TO BUILD AN MP4 20

       CHAPTER 59

       CHAPTER 60

       CHAPTER 61

       Turn Nine

       HOW TO BUILD AN RB5

       CHAPTER 62

       CHAPTER 63

       CHAPTER 64

       CHAPTER 65

       CHAPTER 66

       CHAPTER 67

       CHAPTER 68

       Turn Ten

       HOW TO BUILD AN RB6

       CHAPTER 69

       CHAPTER 70

       CHAPTER 71

       Turn Eleven

       HOW TO BUILD AN RB8

       CHAPTER 72

       CHAPTER 73

       CHAPTER 74

       CHAPTER 75

       CHAPTER 76

       CHAPTER 77

       EPILOGUE

       GLOSSARY

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

      Clouds were gathering that day. Rain was forecast. Feeling scrutinised, I lowered myself creakily into the cockpit of the FW15, painfully aware that at 35, after 10 years in the business, and with two constructors’ championships under my belt, I was about to take my first proper spin in a Formula One car – in fact, my first real drive on a race track, period.

      It was 1993, and I was chief designer at Williams. Frank Williams, owner of the team, had been talked into letting a journalist take one of our cars for a spin. What you might call a promotional drive. With that idea gaining traction, co-founder and technical director, Patrick Head, thought that the senior engineers, him, me and Bernard Dudot, who was in charge of Renault engine development, should also have a go.

      And so here I was, sitting in the car at the Paul Ricard circuit in the South of France, absorbing from a driver’s angle all the things I’d paid so little attention to as an engineer: the procedure for the ignition