Calvin Wan's Drifting Performance Handbook - Brossura

Wan, Calvin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0760327890 ISBN 13: 9780760327890

Casa editrice: Motorbooks Intl, 2007

Riassunto

Drifting started as a niche motorsport among Japanese-American Californians, but has quickly evolved into a full-fledged competitive motorsport involving everyone from kids in the Midwest to a 55-year-old World Rally Championship Driver.

This is the first how-to book to focus on both how to properly prepare a car to compete in drifting events, and how to drive it effectively in those events.Written by one of the original American drifters, it expertly covers car preparation, driving techniques, competition rules, and much more.

Drawing on an extensive storehouse of knowledge and using full-color photography, diagrams, and charts to support his text, Calvin Wan explains the theories behind every aspect of the sport. For those who want to do it, those who like to watch, and those who simply seek to understand, this is the quintessential guide to drifting.

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This book is terrific. Drifting is a popular sport in Japan ( possibly because they can't have much legal fun in Japan on the streets). It involves keeping the car in a controlled slide, with the rear end hanging wide. This is the sort of technique once necassery on race circuits when tyres hadn't much grip, and still employed to spectacular effect on rally circuits. There are good action shots of smoking Japanese super-coupes, and a usefull list of cars from there, the US and Europe that have the necassery chassis drivelines. Tyre choice is interesting. Calvin Wan advises plenty of grip on the front to set up and hold the line. The rear tyres should break traction progressivly. --Yorkshire Post

The dark art of Drifting is now a mainstream motorsport, with major profile bolsters coming form movies with ever-longer titles, usually involving the word Tokyo. Anyone who has watched or indeed tried drifting will know it's a fascintaing and visually spectacular sport and now top boy Calvin Wan has published his long-awaited 'bible' on the subject. Packed with usefull advice, performance and tuning tips and profusley illustrated with photos, most by top snapper Antonio Alvendia, it has something for everyone, from beginners to aspiring professionals ( and there is a good living to be made from the top guns). A fascinating read, which covers subjects from choosing the right car to clutch selection, link drifiting, acceleration initiations and speed managment. There's also a usefull and succinct look at the basic principles of motor racing. If you happen to own an acre or two of empty tarmac or know of a decent unused roundabout, let me know please. Get my drift? --Dorset Echo

Whenever we have a question about drifting, there are two guys we go to: Falken team driver Calvin Wan, and photographer and historian of the sport Antonio Alvendia. the pair recently teamed up to produce another book on drifting...while the words are well-penned, Alvendia's photography makes the book a visual treat --Grassroots Motorsport

L'autore:

27-year-old Calvin Wan has been driving professionally for twelve years. Although a professional drifter since 2003, he started his motorsports career as a roadracer. Calvin lives in San Francisco, CA.Antonio Alvendia is a freelance photographer and writer living in Covina, California. A lifelong Japanese car enthusiast, he has been involved in drifting since its introduction to the United States and presently serves as the emcee for events held by the professional drifting series, Formula D.

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• Editore: Motorbooks Intl
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0760327890
• ISBN 13: 9780760327890
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 191