Trackday Car Preparation

Trackday Car Preparation helps you choose the best upgrades for your trackday car. Tailored to your budget, your chosen car, and what you want to get out of your trackdays, this book gives advice on the best places to direct your modifications to deliver the results that you want. Whether you're after out-and-out speed, fun handling, or maybe tractability and adjustability, this book gives you the advice you need to help make your car a potential trackday winner.

"Prepared to Win deals exclusively with the nuts and bolts of race car preparation."--Back cover.

Provides detailed information for car owners on how to prepare their vehicles for racing

Increasingly congested public roads provide few opportunities to enjoy driving to the full, and yet modern performance cars are the most exciting ever ndash; hence the booming appeal of track days. This extensively illustrated color book contains all the information needed to enjoy track days to the maximum, providing a sound introduction for complete novices: Introduction to track days ndash; the track-day scene, track-day cars, what to expect at a track day, driving instruction: Car preparation ndash; safety preparation, brakes, tires, engine and suspension, noise regulations, insurance: Track-day driving ndash; the basics, driving techniques, the racing line, braking and accelerating, wet-weather driving, dealing with traffic.

From driving to car preparation to dealing with sponsors, The Successful Race Car Driver details the lessons that need to be learned to succeed in today's racing environment. All drivers, from those who consider racing a hobby to those who wish to embark on a professional career, will find valuable tips and techniques that will help make them faster drivers, and help them avoid pitfalls along the way.

While many will be familiar with 1960 Ford racing programmes using the very compact pushrod Small Block V8, few know the facts behind the technology employed at Ford during this time. This book gives insight to the confident, logical approach of engineers working at Ford’s Engine & Foundry Division. Engineers who made outstanding technical decisions, leading to many major motorsport events being won using larger capacity derivatives of the 1961 221ci Small Block V8 production engine, a power unit introduced by Ford mid-1961 for use in 1962 model year intermediate Fairlanes and Mercurys.

This book details how to design, build, and setup the chassis and suspension for road race and stock cars. Includes chassis dynamics, spring and shock theory, front and rear suspension geometry, real world racing aerodynamics, steering systems, racing chassis software and all you need to know to set you chassis up to win races.