It Was Fun: My Fifty Years of High Performance,9781859606667

It Was Fun: My Fifty Years of High Performance

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ISBN13: 9781859606667
ISBN10: 1859606660
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Motorbooks Intl
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Summary

As chief engineer and team manager at BRM, and later group engineering director at Lotus from 1969 to 1991, Tony Rudd was closely involved in the development of postwar motor racing. This re-issue of Rudd's popular biography, with a foreword by Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart, affords race fans fascinating insight to the world of high-performance engine development and Grand Prix racing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7(2)
Foreword 9(2)
Jackie Stewart
Introduction 11(2)
In the beginning --- boyhood and apprenticeship
13(13)
Learning to be a Rolls-Royce engineer
26(6)
Having fun at Hucknall
32(11)
BRM beginnings --- the V16
43(8)
The struggle continues
51(17)
Alfred Owen's V16s
68(14)
The Maserati
82(7)
The 2.5 litre 4-cylinder BRM
89(18)
The spaceframe 2.5 litre BRM
107(13)
Making the mid-engined BRM work
120(9)
Fifty years of high performance 129(218)
The birth of the V8 --- and under new management
170(13)
Won one --- one to go
183(7)
Fighting for the World Championship
190(12)
More V8
202(9)
Enter the real monocoque
211(16)
`Scots wae hae'
227(16)
Three litres --- H16s and V12s
243(13)
V12s and ground effect
256(15)
Powertrain Manager to Group Engineering Director at Lotus
271(14)
Lotus --- Group Engineering Director
285(32)
Lotus after `Chunky'
317(11)
Lotus with General Motors
328(19)
Index 347

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