Smith's Fundamentals of Motorsport Engineering

Rating: 5/5A really solid ans helpful book that gives a wide range of topics a good, easy to understand explanation.Each topic is explained via both theoretical and practical experiences and examples which helps understanding the topic that much easier.Great for beginners and for more advanced learners!

An excellent book. Well structured and going into just the right amount of detail for an introduction. The illustrations and photographs throughout are superb. A lot of thought has clearly gone into this book. Much needed as well, in a market dominated by older books on their 20th reprint. Note that it is a book of fundamentals though - don't expect to learn any aspect of a racing car in depth.

My son needed this book for course at tech, good detail and everything explained well

Good detail

Performs as expected. Pleased with purchase.

Great book to get you up to speed with the motorsport basics

Excellent!

The book is very easy to read, but I feel it's lacking in detail around every area covered. Fine for an introduction if you have little previous engineering knowledge, but if you're a "bearded man in a shed", you will want more relevant (more on that later) detail in every chapter.I am not a professional race engineer (computer programmer by trade), and I bought the book in hope that it might help me understand suspension design for my scratch built track day project better. It did this to a degree with some useful formulas, but unfortunately it fell short on the detail in several areas.On the point of relevant detail; the book has several skillfully created solid works drawings and autocad drawings of gearbox internals and differentials etc. This I feel is irrelevant, because those drawings will not make you understand more about how they work - they're just detail at the wrong abstraction level. A model of how a car reacts with open, slip and closed differentials in a given situation would be better. Designs and parts change all the time, where-as fundamental models remain static(ish).In short, if you have little previous knowledge or are a driver with a team and you want to understand a little bit of what's going on, it's great. If you want more detail to be able to design and actually UNDERSTAND, it falls short.