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A carregar... Inside IMSA's Legendary GTP Race Cars: The Prototype Experiencepor J. A. Martin
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Another work from my great reserve army of books, which if you don't already have is going to cost you almost a hundred dollars to own (I picked it up fairly inexpensively when it first came out), but that's better than the lead author's earlier work on these cars, which will now cost you hundreds of dollars. If you have the wherewithal to buy either work the difference is that the 2000 work focuses on teams and personalities, whereas this book tends to focus on the actual cars, and has a great many color photographs. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Professional automobile racing has always been dominated by sanctioning bodies whose main goal was to ensure competition. That has meant seeing that cars are well matched--in body shape or chassis/engine combinations or engine size. But what about an all-out competition, in which one team's idea of the fastest race car could be pitted against another's, regardless of mechanical "parity"? This was what the International Motor Sports Association's (IMSA) Grand Touring Prototypes (GTP) race series was about. The Series ran from 1981 to 1993, and it was one of the most exhilarating racing experiences of all time. This book is the first to profile the amazing machines that resulted from the GTP's flat-out competition among different--and passionate--ideas about what might be the fastest way around a track: the V-12 with its better ground-effect tunnels but higher center of gravity (CG); the flat six with its low CG but severely-restricted ground-effect tunnels; and others that employed elaborate wings and air dams. Here are the people behind this engineering free-for-all, the culmination of almost a century of automobile racing experience. And here are eighteen of the most competitive vehicles they designed. Using photography, diagrams, drawings and first-person accounts from the men who built them, Inside IMSA's Legendary GTP Race Cars offers a detailed look at the technology that drove some of the world's most exciting race cars, the likes of which may never be seen again. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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