
Formula One Racing For Dummies
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Formula One Racing For Dummies has all the information you need to start following this exciting motor sport. You'll learn the basic dynamics and rules of F1, and you'll get a primer on the drama, strategies, politics, and rivalries that have turned the sport into a global sensation. Written by an industry expert, this book is full of fun anecdotes that will get beginners and die-hards alike excited for the next race. Get to know the contemporary F1 scene, with profiles of current team managers and drivers, info on the best media coverage and F1 news sources, and the latest rules and technical regulations. For fans who watch F1 on TV and those who attend the races in person, this fast-paced Dummies guide is a perfect way to bolster your enjoyment of the sport.
* Discover the anatomy of Formula One racecars, including hybrid engines and modern safety systems
* Learn what goes on behind the scenes, so you know what's at stake when you watch races
* Get to know the most popular drivers, their racing styles, and their backstories
* Familiarize yourself with the championships, pit stops, and new tracks
Following F1 is a lot more exciting when you have a little knowledge about the sport. Formula One Racing For Dummies, the Grand Prix of racing guides, will teach you the ins and outs.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- What You're Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Speeding through the Basics
- Chapter 1 Just the Formula One Facts
- Formula One: A Grand and Global Sport
- Drivers and Other Important People
- Drivers
- Team bosses
- The Top Cats: F1 and the FIA
- Rockets on Wheels: The Cars They Drive
- Key elements in the design
- Prepping the car for maximum performance
- Up and Down and All Around: The Tracks
- The Right Stuff for Business
- Getting the Most Out of Formula One
- Chapter 2 The Most Popular Sport in the World
- What Makes Formula One?
- The premiere racing sport in the world
- Comparing Formula One and other types of racing
- IndyCar racing in America
- NASCAR and touring car racing
- The feeder formulas
- Understanding Formula One's Popularity
- Wheel-to-wheel racing
- Star drivers
- Danger
- Glamour
- Media coverage
- National pride
- Historic Overview
- Famous eras in Formula One history
- Where it began
- How it grew
- The birth of a championship
- Creating the cars, then and now
- Power players in the sport
- Chapter 3 The Big Business of Formula One
- Funding the Sport: The Role of the Sponsor
- The Benefits of Sponsorship
- The headliners: Big benefits for big sponsors
- Buying a smaller slice of the action: Other sponsors
- Fast cars making faster money
- Making Stuff That Fans Love
- Looking the part
- Toys
- Flags
- Home furnishings
- Road cars
- Other stuff
- Watching on the Screen: Why Sponsors Love Television and Video
- Chapter 4 Following the Rulebook
- The Rule Makers: The FIA
- The Concorde Agreement
- Key terms
- Key players: Domenicali and Ben Sulayem
- Understanding the Rulebook
- The sporting regs: Racing rules
- The technical regs: Defining a Formula One car
- The financial regulations: Putting a cap on what teams spend
- Rules and where you can find them
- Getting It Right: Necessary Inspections
- Performing crash tests
- Frontal impact test
- Roll structure test
- Side impact structure tests
- Front impact structure
- Rear impact structure
- Steering column test
- Static load tests
- Scrutineering and checking the cars
- Pre-race parc ferme
- Running checks after the race
- Thinking out of the box
- Part 2 Teams, Drivers, and Their Cars
- Chapter 5 Understanding a Formula One Car
- The Parts of a Formula One Car
- Rub-a-dub-dub, a man in a tub: The chassis
- No more engines
- they are powerunits
- Defining the components
- Long life parts
- Getting into gear: The transmission
- Wings and ground effect
- Wings
- The floor and ground effect
- Master of suspension
- Suspension components
- Using the suspension to set up the car
- Braking news
- Tires
- Inside the cockpit
- Built-in safety features
- Other Stuff to Know about the Car
- Electronics: The car's brains
- Reliability versus speed: And the winner is . . .
- Ballast: Putting on a few pounds
- Manufacturers and customer teams: The folks who make the cars
- Chapter 6 The Race Team
- Who's the Boss?
- Different approaches
- The "works" manufacturers
- The other manufacturers
- The sponsor owner
- The independent customers
- The new Netflix stars
- Guenther Steiner
- Toto Wolff
- Christian Horner
- Zak Brown
- Famous bosses of the past
- Enzo Ferrari
- Colin Chapman
- Ken Tyrrell
- Jack Brabham
- Frank Williams
- Ron Dennis
- Team Structures: A Who's Who of Players
- Technical directors
- Reporting for duty
- Chief aerodynamicist
- Chief designer
- Chief of R&D
- Other chiefs
- Chief of engineering
- Head of strategy
- Wind tunnel chief
- Engine design chief
- Powertrain engineer
- Production manager
- Race engineers
- Chief mechanic
- Sporting director
- Commercial director
- Head of communications
- More People behind the Scenes
- CFD (computational flow dynamics) analysts
- Model makers
- Simulator technicians
- Systems engineers
- Information technologists
- Logistics managers
- Truckies and catering staff
- Let's Not Forget the Drivers
- Chapter 7 Who's in the Driving Seat?
- Profiles of Drivers
- A Week in the Life of a Formula One Driver
- Keeping Busy during Practice
- A typical practice session
- Arrival and initial laps
- Working through problems in the garage
- Back to the track
- Getting the car just right
- Lending a helping hand: Working with teammates
- Race Day Rituals
- Psyching up for the race: It's a mind game
- 'Round and 'round we go: Racing without rest
- No rest for the weary: After the race
- Fit to Drive: Getting in Shape
- Working it out
- Coming back from injury
- Keeping Cool
- (Almost) too hot to handle
- Getting a little relief from the heat
- Home Is Where the Car Park Is
- Part 3 What Happens On (and Off) the Track
- Chapter 8 Getting in the Race
- Travelling to the Track in Style
- Getting to Know the Circuit
- Sussing out the details
- What the rookie needs to know
- Sprint Weekends and Normal Grands Prix
- Practice, Practice, and Sometimes More Practice
- What the drivers get out of practice
- Establishing set-up
- Choosing tires
- Finding optimum fuel levels
- What you may notice during practice
- Getting Off to a Flying Start: Qualifying
- Q1, Q2, and Q3 to decide pole
- Getting pole is king
- Saturday sprint day
- No stopping for the weather
- Surrendering grid position
- Ready to Race: Final Grid Positions
- Chapter 9 Race Day Strategies
- Deciding Your Strategy
- Choosing your tires
- Choosing the number of stops
- The undercut and the overcut
- The Start
- Starting the race
- Getting the best start
- Defending positions
- For overtaking on the inside of a corner
- For overtaking outside of a corner
- DRS and the Art of Overtaking
- Don't Get Caught Out
- Safety Cars, Real and Virtual
- The virtual safety car
- The safety car
- No restart
- Chapter 10 Life in the Pits
- Pit Stop Basics
- What are the pits?
- The pit crew
- Safety and danger in the pits
- Why Drivers Make Pit Stops
- The Anatomy of a Pit Stop
- Winning and Losing Races in the Pits
- Timing of stops
- Crew performance
- Equipment malfunction
- Chapter 11 Winning It All
- Winning the Race and What Happens After
- First, make it to the finish
- Getting the checkered flag
- Taking the slowing down lap
- Parc ferme: Doing post-race checks
- Weighing in - and the first words
- Joy on the podium
- Everyone lines up
- A few patriotic tunes are played
- Someone breaks out the bubbly
- Press conferences
- TV interviews, first
- Press conference, next
- Getting back to the team
- Winning the Championship
- Understanding the points system
- Glory for teams: The Constructor's World Championship
- Not all bad news for the losers
- Getting the trophy
- Other Awards
- Chapter 12 Safety in Formula One
- Style Isn't Everything: Formula One Clothing
- Helmets: Hard hats of the racing world
- Race wear: Functional, fabulous, and pretty good-looking
- Overalls and undies
- Boots, gloves, and other accessories
- Safety Features of Formula One Cars
- Safe in the cockpit
- Strapped in and ready to go: Seat belts
- The HANS Device
- The halo
- The chassis: What it's made of and how it's built
- Track Personnel and Procedures
- Marshals: Keeping everyone on the straight and narrow
- Following the leader: The safety car
- Slowing cars down: The virtual safety car
- On-site medical facilities
- Part 4 Understanding Formula One Tracks
- Chapter 13 Track Basics and Racing Circuits
- Sorting Out the Types of Tracks
- Street tracks
- High-speed low-downforce tracks
- High-downforce tracks
- Medium-speed tracks
- Choosing a Track
- Providing a quality track
- Convincing F1 bosses
- Other stuff
- Chapter 14 Track and Driver
- Going Around the Bend . . . Fast!
- In the Sim . . . Getting to Know the Tracks
- Counting on experience
- Learning the way around the track
- Playing with the set-up
- The evolving track
- The Ever-Changing Nature of Tracks
- Increasing safety
- Slowing the cars down
- Getting medics to accidents
- Making overtaking easier
- Chapter 15 A Look at Formula One's Tracks
- Sakhir, Bahrain Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Jeddah, Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Melbourne, Australian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Baku, Azerbaijan Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Miami International Autodrome, Miami Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Imola, Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Monte Carlo, Monaco Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Barcelona, Spanish Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Red Bull Ring, Austrian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Silverstone, British Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Hungaroring, Hungarian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Spa-Francorchamps, Belgian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Zandvoort, Dutch Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Monza, Italian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Suzuka, Japanese Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Losail, Qatar Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Circuit of the Americas, United States Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexican Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Interlagos, Brazilian Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Las Vegas, Las Vegas Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
- Track history
- Track specs
- Part 5 You and Formula One: A Day at the Races
- Chapter 16 Going to a Race
- Buying Tickets
- When to buy them and who to get them from
- Where: Grandstand or standing?
- General admission pass
- Center pass
- Grandstand
- Paddock Club luxury
- Finding Hotel Accommodation
- Tricks for Race Day
- Getting there early
- Watching it on the big screen
- Getting close to the action
- So you've got a paddock pass!
- Getting an autograph or selfie
- Formula One Globetrotters - Travel Tips
- Races in the Americas
- Brazilian Grand Prix, Interlagos
- Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
- Mexican Grand Prix, Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
- Miami Grand Prix, Miami International Autodrome
- Las Vegas Grand Prix, Las Vegas
- United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas
- Races in Europe
- Austrian Grand Prix, Red Bull Ring
- Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku
- Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps
- British Grand Prix, Silverstone
- Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort
- Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Imola
- Hungarian Grand Prix, Hungaroring
- Italian Grand Prix, Monza
- Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo
- Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona
- Races in the Middle East
- Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina
- Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir
- Qatar Grand Prix, Losail
- Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Jeddah
- Races in Australia and Asia
- Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne
- Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka
- Singapore Grand Prix, Marina Bay circuit
- A final list of do's and don'ts
- Chapter 17 Following Formula One from Home
- Turning on Your Screen
- Camera angles galore
- Listening to the experts
- Finding Formula One coverage
- Listening to the Radio and Podcasts
- Following on the Internet
- Up Close with Social Media
- Keeping in Touch with Your Driver or Team
- Getting autographs long distance
- Joining a fan club
- Part 6 The Part of Tens
- Chapter 18 The Ten Greatest Formula One Drivers
- Juan Manuel Fangio
- Stirling Moss
- Jim Clark
- Jackie Stewart
- Niki Lauda
- Alain Prost
- Ayrton Senna
- Michael Schumacher
- Fernando Alonso
- Lewis Hamilton
- Chapter 19 The Ten Best Formula One Races
- 1957 German Grand Prix
- 1970 Monaco Grand Prix
- 1979 French Grand Prix
- 1981 Spanish Grand Prix
- 1984 Monaco Grand Prix
- 1987 British Grand Prix
- 1993 European Grand Prix
- 2005 Japanese Grand Prix
- 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix
- 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix
- Chapter 20 Ten Things to Do During the Season
- Watching a Formula One Start - Anywhere!
- Listening to a Formula One Car at Full Revs
- Mixing It with the Stars in Monaco
- Joining In with the Fans
- Watching a Formula One Car at High Speed
- Seeing a Formula One Car on a Street Circuit
- Joining the Parties at F1's City Races
- Getting an Autograph or Selfie from Your Favorite Star
- Soaking Up the Sport's History at Monza
- Paying Homage to the Greats from the Past
- Chapter 21 Ten Famous Names from the Past
- Tazio Nuvolari
- Enzo Ferrari
- Bruce McLaren
- Graham Hill
- Phil Hill
- Max Mosley
- Frank Williams
- Bernie Ecclestone
- Ron Dennis
- Jean Todt
- Chapter 22 Ten Future Stars of Formula One
- Oscar Piastri
- Colton Herta
- Dennis Hauger
- Andrea Kimi Antonelli
- Theo Pourchaire
- Victor Martins
- Liam Lawson
- Jack Doohan
- Arthur Leclerc
- Logan Sargeant
- Part 7 Appendix
- Appendix A Formula One Jargon
- Index
- EULA
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