Race Car Suspension Design Book. Features a wealth of illustrations including a full colour plate section. Explains race car suspensions theory and design.
Both are really good with the latter being very very useful for designing your own race sports car suspension. The book also includes a unique string based model approach to hands on visualization of suspension movement. He is perhaps best known for his terrapin series of self designed racing cars and as author of the best selling race and rally car source book.
I definately recommend that noone reads the new book on racing tires by paul haney.
Hand selected by racing engineer legend carroll smith the 27 sae technical papers in this book focus on the chassis and suspension design of pure racing cars an area that has traditionally been farmed out to independent designers or firms since the early 1970s. Allan staniforth one time raf navigator and then daily mirror reporter is now a freelance writer and suspension consultant. The author explains the history of suspension design and types handling theory suspension design techniques and the math calculations used in design. In a practical and down to earth way it covers the fundamentals of how race cars handle and the requirements for designing and constructing a car.
