| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780452290228 | | Publisher: Plume Books | | Publish Date: 1/27/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208273923 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 65398 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 304 |
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| | | A physicist explores the science of speed racing
With 75 million fans, NASCAR is the #1 spectator sport in America. Now, in "The Physics of NASCAR," a scientist explains the intricate and complex way the sport works, in terms that anyone who drives a caraor maybe occasionally looks under the hoodacan easily comprehend. Based on her extensive access to NASCAR race shops, drivers, crew chiefs, engine builders, and pit crews during races, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky traces the life cycle of a race car from its creation at top race shops to competing in the door-todoor action of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
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