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书名：How to Build a Car如何造一辆车
作者：Adrian Newey
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2017
语种：英文
ISBN：9780008196806
商品尺寸：19.1 x 3.8 x 24 cm
包装：精装
页数：400
★“F1赛坛传奇赛车设计大师”
★“F1赛车空气动力学潮流的领航人”
在英国，有这么一个人将这些夸张的头衔集于一身，
他设计的F1赛车更是获得冠军次数zui多的车辆，
他也是第1个为三支不同车队设计赛车，
而又都获得世界冠军的设计师，
他就是艾德里安·纽维，英国人的骄傲。
这本名为How to Build a Car《如何造一辆车》的个人自传中，全书共400页，讲述了纽维设计赛车的职业生涯，还回忆了1994年埃尔顿-塞纳命陨伊莫拉的事故。在书中，他把方向盘的修改称之为“工程的两个非常糟糕的部分”。
“我将永远感到对埃尔顿（塞纳）之死负有一定的责任但不是罪过。”——艾德里安·纽维
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.
Beautifully illustrated with never-before-seen drawings, 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.
Review
‘In this gripping memoir, Newey reveals the highs and lows of his race to the top.’--Mail on Sunday Books of the Year
‘The greatest Formula One designer of his – or any other – age.’--Sunday Times
‘Newey has a legitimate claim on the title of "Britain’s greatest living engineer".’--Daily Telegraph
‘Adrian Newey has created more winners than all the super-brain computers in Formula One put together.’--The Times
‘Creative genius… the leading Formula One designer of his generation… refreshingly honest.’--Guardian
‘The most accomplished man in the world’s most glamorous sport… The Michelangelo of motorsport.’--New Yorker
‘How to Build a Car encapsulates through Adrian’s remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula 1 so thrilling.’--Car Mechanic
‘How to Build a Car gives a tremendous insight…fantastically entertaining.’--Daily Express
‘How to Build a Car is an emphatic hit. It’s one of the most enjoyable F1 books I’ve read in quite some time.’--WTF1
‘How to Build a Car is an essential read for all fans of motor racing.’--F1 Fanatic
‘Adrian Newey is one of Formula 1’s finest technical brains… The prose is sharp, punchy… you learn almost without realising.’--Autosport
自从22岁从南安普敦大学毕业，纽维似乎就在做一件事，而且只做这一件事，那就是设计F1赛车。
在漫长的日子里，他设计的赛车曾帮助十几位车手荣登榜首，而他也成为了F1赛坛传奇设计大师，被新东家扫地出门没有摧垮他，一代车神的逝世没有打败他，这个永不服输的设计天才依然在F1的世界里不懈的奋斗着……
艾德里安·纽维，1958年出生，英国F1工程师，他是一名和三支不同的F1车队一起获得过F1制造商总冠的工程师。纽维是红牛F1车队的总技术官，设计了2010年的冠赛车红牛RB6、2011年的冠赛车红牛RB7，2012年的冠赛车红牛RB8，以及2013年的冠赛车红牛RB9。
纽维在F1和印地车赛中担任过比赛工程师、空气动力学设计师和技术总监，并且都取得了成功。在为威廉姆斯车队和迈凯轮车队设计了冠赛车之后，纽维于2006年转投红牛车队，在2010年、2011年，2012年和2013年赢得了车手总冠和制造商总冠。2014赛季后，由于F1技术规则的持续收紧限制了技术创新的空间，纽维因此不再全身心投入F1，转而将精力分散到红牛的其它项目中。
Adrian Newey OBE is arguably the greatest car designer in the history of Formula One. Newey has worked in both Formula One and IndyCar racing as an immensely successful race engineer, aerodynamicist, designer and technical director. After designing championship-winning Formula One cars for Williams F1 and McLaren, Newey moved to Red Bull Racing in 2007, where he is currently Red Bull Racing's Chief Technical Officer. He has won 10 Formula One Constructors' titles (more than any other designer), helping some of the world's most famous drivers to Drivers' championship wins, including over 150 Grands Prix.
Born in 1958,I came of age in a world infatuated with the motorcar: Scalextric, Formula One. The Monte Carlo Rally. At 10 years old I watched a Lamborghini tumble down a mountainside and Mini Coopers pull off The Italian Job. And when Kowaiski slapped his Dodge Charger into fifth and accelerated away from the cops inVanishing Point, I veiled in amazement, 11e’s got another gear!’ and then slid down in my seat as what felt like the whole of the cinema turned to glare at me.
I devoured Auzosport, the weekly ‘bible’ for all things motorsport. I was glued to the radio during the 1968 London-to-Sydney Marathon. By the age of six I’d decided my future lay in motor sport. I was 12 when I knew I wanted to design racing cars.
My passions were forged at home. Situated at the end of a rural lane on the outskirts of Stratford-upon Avon, our house backed onto a smelly pig farm, and it was from there that my father, Richard, ran a veterinary practice with his business partner, Brian Rawson. The practice combined pet surgeries with farm visits for bigger animals, and from an early age I was a dab hand at passing buckets of water and lengths of rope. I’ve seen enough newborn livestock to last me a lifetime.
My mother, Edwina, was attractive; quite the catch. She’d been an ambulance driver during the war and met my dad when she brought her unwell PyreneanMountain Dog into his practice. Her father had taken an instant dislike to her new beau. ‘That man will only cross my doorstep over my dead body,’ he said.The day before he and my dad were due to visit for the first time, he died of a heart attack.
I was born on Boxing Day. The rather far-fetched tale I was told involved my mother and father driving around Colchester, complete with a midwife in the back of the car, when my mother’s waters broke. Different times, of course, but I’m not sure that even in those days you were assigned a midwife just in case you gave birth, and why on earth she would have been with them on Boxing Day, I couldn’t possibly say. Hut anyway, my father knocked on a door, they were taken in by strangers, and my mother gave birth there and then. My very first crib was in a chest of drawers.
