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Making it FASTER: Tales from the Endless Search for Speed
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Product Description In motorsports there have been an endless series of performance advances where one wonders, how did they ever figure this out? Other times one asks, how did they not see this when the answer was there for all to see? These are the stories of discovery by 3 generations of racers and designers, who changed the state of the art forever. It is also the story of clever tricks and rule book interpretation to win the ever-escalating contest between rule makers and loophole seekers, told by those directly involved in Formula One, Le Mans, Indycar, IMSA, Moto GP, Trans-Am and NASCAR. Their innovations dazzled us all. Review If you like racing (almost any racing from the 1950s on), you will find this book endlessly fascinating. It's a compilation of race-car engineering insights from the great drivers who had to go out on the tracks to see if the cars worked. Almost everyone of note shows up in "Making it Faster," describing the innovations that were good, bad or horrible, all in their own words, as introduced by authors Dan Binks and Norm DeWitt. ... If you're a reader of Autoweek, you must like racing, so you'll love this book. --Autoweek Magazine, July 21st, 2014 Norm DeWitt has created a transparent look at what goes on behind the scenes of competitive and contentious motorsports in our generation. He could not have chosen a more relevant and deserving porthole for this look see than one of the all-time great leaders and technicians in the sport of automobile racing than my good friend Danny Binks. A true Racer! --Jack Roush This book is written with care and passion. Care means with very careful research work and the care not to ask too much from the reader, may it be an engineer or a motorsport enthusiast. The passion you can feel while reading every single page. It takes you along on a fascinating journey through decades of racing and it makes it hard to stop reading before you have reached the end. -Dr. Ulrich Baretzky (Audi Sport). One of the most densely-packed, frenetically-paced books of technical tidbits, first-person stories, rumors, theories, scenes, secrets, scenarios, dreams, drama, and odd-ball racing vignettes ever. ... The dual authors of this hefty volume are just unrelenting in piling on layer after layer after layer of information about the people and the pieces of the world automobile (and motorcycle) racing. Technical history on the half-shell, this book jumps "on the cam" from page one and rides the rev-limiter until the very last page. -- Car Culture Ground Zero, lacar.com Regular Classic Racer contributor, Norm DeWitt, has published another great book - Making it FASTER. On the face of it, Making it FASTER looks to be one for the car race enthusiast, which is Norm's first love, but it has some great motorcycle technical stories scattered throughout. In typical Norm style he has called on some of the greatest names in two- and four-wheeled sport to gather together an interesting and informative read. Highly Recommended. --Classic Racer Magazine (UK) Nov/Dec '14
