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How to Build a Car
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir.
How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved.
A true engineering genius, even in adolescence Adrian's thoughts naturally emerged in shape and form - he began sketching his own car designs at the age of 12 and took a welding course in his school summer holidays. From his early career in IndyCar racing and on to his unparalleled success in Formula One, we learn in comprehensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. Adrian has designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, always with a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster. And while his career has been marked by unbelievable triumphs, there have also been deep tragedies: most notably Ayrton Senna's death during his time at Williams in 1994.
How to Build a Car encapsulates, through Adrian's remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula One so thrilling - its potential for the total synchronicity of man and machine, the perfect combination of style, efficiency and speed.
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- MR
- 17-01-18
f1 and other bits
a real insight to the f1 cars and other motor sports and not to Tec for jo public
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- Eve
- 26-09-18
Very Very good
If you like F1 then you’ll love this! It gives you the deepest insight into the mechanical world and also exclusive information about big events you probably didn’t know about
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- eddie
- 06-03-21
good story if not too in-depth at times
good to her he's story one downside is how in-dept he seems to go at times at times at the start of the book I skipped ahead abit but an overall good
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- Alan
- 29-11-20
Brilliant book
It gives you enough detail to understand what it going on (in terms of design), but not so much that you could get lost!
Really enjoyed it, and great to learn a bit more about what Adrian got up to off track
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- Anonymous User
- 13-07-20
Every F1 fan will love it
If you like F1 you will enjoy this book. Adrian Newey has enormous experience in F1 and his stories are very interesting.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-12-17
if you love F1...
brilliant! nothing more to say, really. the greatest F1 designer of all time discusses his time in F1. great insight.
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- JoB
- 16-02-20
A brilliant book, so easy to listen to!
If you have any interest in cars, motorsport, F1, engineering or aerodynamics, listen to this book!Adrian explains just enough of the technical aspects to keep an engineer engaged and a layman interested, coupled with personal revelations to make this book really well rounded.
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- Dom
- 08-09-21
Perfect insight into the engineering aspect of F1
Sometimes requires a good bit of concentration to truly visualise what is being discussed. However, gripping throughout if the field of F1 and engineering at the pinnacle of motorsport is of interest to you.
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- Benjamin Malone
- 31-01-22
Superb listen for an avid F1 fan.
Loved the entire thing. Learning about Adrian's story and how he got to where he is. Anyone who follows the sport will enjoy this.
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- Eoin O Sullivan
- 06-01-22
Brilliant book
Thoroughly enjoyed this. A real look under the bonnet of F1 design, performance, challenges and politics of the sport. Loved it.
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