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Ferrari Formula 1: Under the Skin of the Championship-Winning F1-2000 (R-356)

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I have been watching F1 for over a decade from the electro-pneumatic cars that Nigel Mansell said could drive themselves through last year's nearly close finish. When the GP came to Phoenix for three years I was there every time and it was an experience unlike any other.

In the last year, the pits were opened to the public on Thursday and walking through them was about the only thing I can compare to this book. Of course that was 10 year old technology, but lifting up a wheel and tire with the effort you think it requires and nearly flinging it over your head because it's so light, is the same shock this book gives you with its details.

My favorite section is on the engine. Here the drawings and explanations are unbelievable. How it all works, individual components laid out, even dyno charts. Same for the other sections like transmission, suspension and aerodynamics. How Ferrari operates as a team is also presented and laid down as perhaps its biggest edge.

If you're thinking this is just another Ferrari PR book, you're right. But no one has the track record and history Ferrari does in F1. They were also nothing special in the 80s and early 90s so some respect is due for how hard they worked to get to this level. The book gives details that only an employee might gain access to. It's no wonder Ferrari made the author wait four years to publish it.

I give it five stars only because it has no current peer. If you like F1 and you want to know about the technical side, there is nothing to compare.

This is an amazing work, even if it does not give the specific information that Ferrari has used to outclass their competition. There is not another work giving the specific details of a Formula 1 racer since Bamsey's review of the MP4/4. The details include a vast amount of information that teams never release, such as engine dimensions, and clearly shows why it took so long to produce! I have a new volume to proudly display in my collection of works on Formula 1.

There isn't a book out there like this! Excellent for all Formula 1 fans!

Generally speaking this is a good book which might be interesting for all those who are linked to technical aspects of a formula-1 car design.Is brings a general overview of Ferrari organisation which allowed them to take several championships and a carefull technical analysis of the 2000 car design aspects, including very rare information regarding to tyres, suspensions, performance, etc. This is a book that has to be in every formula 1 technical fan booklet.

This book is an oustanding publication for the depth of technical information on F1 engines, not available elsewhere to the outsider. It is not a coffee table type of book, all of the pictures and illustrations contribute to the technical depth.

The is by far the best book on Formula 1 that I've read.
The author, Peter G. Wright, is a former engineer from the Lotus F1 team, who developped the fundations of aerodynamics in modern F1 cars.
Jean Todt let him access all the secrets of the technology inside the Ferrari F1-2000, and Wright details every aspects of the car. You can see pictures of all key components of the engine, gear box, suspensions, brakes and aerodynamics. And the illustrations of Tony Matthews are truly amazing.
Really, this book is a Masterpiece... as well as the F1-2000.

I thought it would be more technical, it spends too many pages praising Ferrari, and maybe it was the necessary publicity to let him do the book. It has some awesome drawings, but the remaining spaces for the pictures are filled with standard shots of the car on the track. The publicity around this book was very big so I was expecting more, more in depth technical data or secrets.

I bought this gift for my husband for his birthday and he's been totally engrossed in it. He originally saw it in Road and Track and was intrigued because he's big into formula 1 and ferraris. He hopes to work on them someday. Point is, it's a great gift if you've got a mechanic or ferrari enthusiast in your life.

For anyone who has read the classic Pomeroy series 'Grand Prix Cars', this book will be a disappointment. Pomeroy set the standard by describing what made each particular winning car successful. Whether it be dual the overhead camshaft engine in the 1912 Peugot or the extremely light ladder frame and nitro-benzene powered engine of the 1934 Mercedes. Each of these chapters gave the reader a thorough understanding of what secret breakthrough made the car quickest.

None of that is in this book. Systems described in detail are those that are the norm for F1 design. There are several areas where Wright states explicitly that he isn't allowed to describe the unique 'secret' aspects of the Ferrari that set it above its competition. Without that insight, this is nothing more than a pretty photo album.