Legends in the Paddock

Legends in the Paddock

Etienne Psaila

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Independently Published
Año de edición:
2025
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9781923525306
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From Alfred Neubauer’s pit-board semaphore in the 1930s to Alejandro Agag’s silent, battery-powered street races, Legends in the Paddock traces a century of motorsport through the people who shaped it from the garage floor rather than the driver’s seat. Each chapter is a narrative deep-dive into a single visionary-designers who bent airflow to their will, strategists who saw victory in spreadsheets, entrepreneurs who built dynasties from empty workshops. Together, their stories reveal how technology, organization, and human ingenuity spiralled upward in unbroken dialogue-each era inheriting the last era’s lessons and daring a step further.Illustrated by pivotal race results, verified technical breakthroughs, and behind-the-scenes decision points, this is the definitive chronicle of how champions are forged long before the green flag waves-and of where the next breakthroughs will likely emerge as sustainability, diversity, and data reshape the paddock once again.

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