Important note: We have been extremely busy and are doing our best to get items already ordered out quickly, but please note orders taken now will not be sent out until 7th January 2013

"The Science Behind the Speed" by David Tremayne and the Bloodhound Team (sponsored by Rolex).

Beautiful hardback book - A Design Manual for the World's Fastest Car - charts the story of the design of Bloodhound SSC. 138 pages, full colour pictures and illustrations throughout. 27.5cm wide x 24cm.  Nine chapters covering:

• Why Do It?
• How do you design a 1000mph car?
• The Jet
• The Rocket
• Structure and Strength
• Getting it stopped
• Reinventing the Wheel
• The Desert
• Turning Theory into Practice

Please Note: The book is now in stock and is being shipped by special delivery ... which should be next day delivery in the UK mainland. Last orders for Christmas by 14th December please.

[postage and packing - UK: £6.00; overseas: £15.00]