How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer Audiobook (Free)

‘Adrian includes a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing vehicles. He is super competitive but hardly ever forgets to have a great time. An hugely likeable man.’ Damon Hill

The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir.

How to Build an automobile explores the story of Adrian’s unrivalled 35-12 months career in Method One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has about how exactly to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer worked alongside and the races in which he’s been involved.

A true executive genius, actually in adolescence Adrian’s thoughts naturally emerged in form and form – he began sketching his own car styles at age 12 and took a welding course in his college summer vacations. From his early career in IndyCar race and on to his unrivaled success in Method One, we learn in extensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. Adrian provides designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Tag Webber and Sebastian Vettel, constantly having a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster. Even though his career continues to be marked by amazing triumphs, there are also deep tragedies; most notably Ayrton Senna’s death during his time at Williams in 1994.

Wonderfully illustrated with never-before-seen drawings, How to Build a Car encapsulates, through Adrian’s remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula One so thrilling – its potential for the full total synchronicity of man and machine, an ideal combination of style, efficiency and speed.