Inside F1: Life alongside legends

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These then stick to the tread of the tyre, effectively separating the tyre from the track surface very slightly. A term used to describe a car's responsiveness to driver input and its ability to negotiate corners effectively. Often talked about in conjunction with pitch (movement around an imaginary horizontal axis across the centre of the car) and roll (movement through an imaginary longitudinal axis along the car's centreline). I use my interviews from throughout the years to take you through the highs and lows of their racing lives and give you in sight to the world of Formula One.

That’s not to say the girls that were going around the track – the Abbi Pulling’s of this world – don’t have enormous talent, they do. Some drivers are fortunate enough to either be paid to race or have enough sponsorship that they're able to earn a living out of it. A synthetic fibre that is combined with epoxy resin to create a strong, lightweight composite used in F1 car construction.A switch in the cockpit to alter the split of the car's braking power between the front and the rear wheels according to a driver's wishes. You get to that tipping point, and we’ve seen that in women’s football, in women’s cricket and in women’s rugby, that school-age girls are realising, ‘I can play rugby and I can play football’.

The faster its exit, the lower the air pressure beneath the car, and hence the more downforce the car generates.It was a good book - however, each chapter became fairly repetitive, and left me wanting more than the drivers. So hopefully if I get a few more good results in, hopefully it will help, again, me progress further.

And I'm a driver for Rodin Carlin in the F1 Academy and a trackside support engineer at Aston Martin Formula One. A term used to describe a driver at the rear end of the field, often when he is encountered by the race leaders. The ideal compound is one with maximum grip but which still maintains durability and heat resistance. The teams provide the cars, the engineers, the mechanics, the truck, everything else to form that package.I think this huge growing fan base, the fastest growing demographic in that new fan base is a young female audience. Lee's close relationship with the drivers makes INSIDE F1 an enthralling behind-the-scenes account of one of the biggest sports in the world. There aren’t enough girls to break through and be visible enough to create a cohort of girls that, I think, are going to be at the very top of the sport.

Here we come back to the idea of F1 Academy Discover Your Drive being that turning point in the history of motorsport – it’s Chambers’ own phrase but one that sums up the magnitude of this initiative. It absolutely has to, because we're missing out on a whole pool of talent that's just so far been neglected. Good torque is particularly vital on circuits with a number of mid- to slow-speed turns, where acceleration out of the corners is essential to a good lap time. A wonderful book with lots of little hidden gems but also the beautiful dulcet tones of Lee reading it to you adds an extra dimension. The term given to the area of a tyre that is worn heavily on one spot after a moment of extreme braking or in the course of a spin.This year alone, we have welcomed to the stage Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN drivers Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou, Haas F1 Team drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen, and former World Champions Damon Hill and Mika Häkkinen!