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Provides coverage of the theory and practice of vehicle cornering and handling, and includes unique information on suspension analysis, understeer/oversteer, bump steer and roll steer, roll centers, limit handling, and aerodynamics.

Looks at every part of the process required to make a car better than its competitors and will enable drivers to gain a better understanding of vehicle dynamics, race engineers to appreciate the practical implications of set-up and mechanics to comprehend why engineers design things a certain way.

Provides design assistance with the actual mechanical design of an engine in which the gas dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and combustion have been optimized so as to provide the required performance characteristics such as power, torque, fuel consumption, or noise emission.