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Foraging: The fun and easy guide to the great outdoors

by Stella and De Luca Mulandiee

From the writers behind the extraordinary Knowledge to Forage comes an incredible guide to the great outdoors . . .Welcome to the world of foraging.Have you ever been on a long (and probably boring) walk through woods or fields, or even the streets around where you live?If you have, then all around you are undiscovered secrets. A whole world of nature and plants and flowers just waiting to be found.In this amazing book, we'll tell you all about how you can become an expert in foraging - which is a way to find incredible food, medicines and even soaps in the natural world around you.After reading this book, you'll be able to:- Find the best berries and plants for making yummy foods- Learn about the incredible stories hidden in the flowers and plants and trees you see every day (and some you might never have spotted).- Impress your friends with your incredible knowledge of the natural world - and help them protect it!With handy tips and colourful illustrations, Family Foraging is a comprehensive guide to nature and foraging, which will allow children to explore the great outdoors with friends and families.*Includes a full and comprehensive safety guide*

Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania

by László Péter

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the ‘football gatherings’ that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic and political reasons. In response, masses of people would leave their homes and travel into the mountains to pick-up the TV broadcast from neighbouring countries. The phenomenon grew into a social institution with a penetrating force: it produced an alternative social space and a dissident public that pointed to a form of resistance taking place through football.Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania provides an insight into the everyday life under the pressure of dictatorship and, through the special patterns of sports consumption, it tells a social history through small individual stories related to football.

Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania

by László Péter

This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the ‘football gatherings’ that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic and political reasons. In response, masses of people would leave their homes and travel into the mountains to pick-up the TV broadcast from neighbouring countries. The phenomenon grew into a social institution with a penetrating force: it produced an alternative social space and a dissident public that pointed to a form of resistance taking place through football.Forbidden Football in Ceausescu’s Romania provides an insight into the everyday life under the pressure of dictatorship and, through the special patterns of sports consumption, it tells a social history through small individual stories related to football.

Force of Nature

by Robin Knox-Johnston

In January 1969, aboard his home-built wooden boat Suhaili, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston became the first person every to sail solo, non-stop around the world. 25 years later, Sir Robin again completed a record-breaking circumnavigation, co-skippering Enza with Kiwi yachting legend Sir Peter Blake. His place in sailing's pantheon of greats was assured. Then, after the tragic death of his wife Sue, Sir Robin decided he would try again. in October 2006, at the age of 67 - when most people are settling in to a well-earned retirement - Sir Robin embarked on another gruelling single-handed race around the world. Compared to his rivals he lacked recent experience and a large shore-based support team. There were some who believed that this time he might have bitten off more than he could chew.Then early on, it looked like their worst fears might be realised. Within days of setting off, near-Hurricane-strength storms in the Bay of Biscay capsized his 60' yacht Saga Insurance. But it wasn't just Sir Robin who suffered. Three-quarters of the entire fleet had to run for shelter. When they re-emerged, all faced months of hardship and intensity ahead.Force of Nature is Sir Robin's first-hand account his extraordinary return to the ultra-competitive, punishing world of single-handed offshore racing. It turned out to be a very different journey to the one he undertook about Suhaili, yet his experience aboard her remains a touchstone throughout this story.It's a story of courage, ingenuity and resilience played out against the World's oceans. But most of all it's a powerful reminder that age is nothing but a number; no barrier to realizing one's dreams.

Forest Life: Practical Meditations on Canoeing, Fishing, Hunting, and Bushcraft (Classic Outdoors)

by George Washington Sears

For readers of Cabin Porn and Your Cabin in the Woods, this illustrated collection of odes to the outdoors is the perfect escape into nature. Forest Life collects George Washington Sears' timeless writing about the joys of exploring the wilderness, edited for a modern audience. In text both practical and inspirational, Sears' provides enduring wisdom about trips into the woods and lakes, including equipment, campfires, fishing, camp cooking, traveling light, and canoes. The original "forest bather," Sears wanted others to enjoy the woods as he did. He published Woodcraft in 1884 to help prepare skillful, self-reliant woodsman and to extol the restorative power of nature. In addition to Woodcraft, Forest Life contains many of his articles from Forest and Stream, as well as his nature poetry. Sears is especially eloquent about canoeing, which he helped popularize with published tales of his adventures. In 1883, when he was 61 years old and suffering from tuberculosis, he used a 9-foot, 10-1/2 pound canoe to travel 266 miles through the Adirondacks, writing, "The easy, gentle rocking of the canoe was the best incentive to drowsiness I ever found, and by night or day was nearly certain to send me into dreamland." This edition features period etchings of scenes, people, flora, and fauna of the Adirondacks, and is the ideal gift book for the outdoor enthusiast.

Forest School For Grown-Ups: Explore the Wisdom of the Woods

by Richard Irvine

Forest Schools need not be just for children. Here is the ultimate guide for how adults can enjoy the benefits of outdoor learning too.Have you always wanted to know how to start a campfire, forage for (the right) fungi, or know how to tie a good knot? Or would you like to expand your horizons – and lower your stress levels – by building a dry stone wall, fashioning a bow and arrow, or beachcombing for shells?Forest schools for kids originated in Scandinavia as outdoor, play-based learning groups and, as the benefits of nature play became internationally recognised, quickly became established around the world.But why should kids have all the fun? Connecting with green spaces, trees and plants can lift our spirits, improve stress and relax our brains – in short, playing outside is good for everyone.Forest School for Grown Ups shows you can learn new skills and practise forgotten ones from finding your way in the woods to whittling utensils and carving sculptures; from trapping and smoking game to making and using a divining rod, from building a bird box, or insect house, to simply just climbing trees.Beautifully designed and illustrated, Forest School for Grown Ups provides the perfect resource for anyone wanting to enjoy spending quality time outdoors.

Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You

by Sarah Ivens

Who hasn't felt better after a walk in the woods, a picnic alfresco or a swim in the sea? There is something soul-soothingly simple and refreshing about getting back to nature, about making the most of the great outdoors, being mindful of Mother Nature's gifts and grabbing spring and summer - and those blue sky, brisk days of autumn and winter - with both hands. But sadly it is a skill we are losing. We are becoming creatures wrapped in walls and trapped by to-do lists, hibernating while the world sprouts, grows and changes.From a simple walk in the woods and countryside couples therapy to DIY natural beauty products and how to bring the outdoors to your home, Forest Therapy will provide seasonal tips to help you reconnect with nature. This book is not just for mountain climbers or white water rafters - it is for uninspired fathers wanting to reconnect their families, bookworms looking to shake off their cobwebs, cooped-up kids needing to let off steam, stressed-out professionals wanting to stop and smell the flowers and worn-down mums needing a rejuvenating boost. We all know getting outside is good for us. Our ancestors did it. We should too. This book will help you live your most unforgettable, fabulous alfresco life.

Forever Boys: The Days of Citizens and Heroes (Wisden Sports Writing Ser.)

by James Lawton

Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled. This has rarely been demonstrated so vividly as by the Manchester City team who briefly, but unforgettably, illuminated the late sixties. And no one was more caught up in their struggles and their triumphs than James Lawton, a young sportswriter starting out on a career that would take him to all the great events of world sport. Yet still, 50 years after Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison began to shape the brilliant team, he counts watching their rise to glory as one of the most exciting times of his professional life.Francis Lee, Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee - these players loomed large over the game as they charged at the peaks of English football, and today evoke a period of the sport's history that seems distant and unknowable, hard to see except through the rose-tinted gloss of nostalgia.Lawton goes back to those heroes, interviewing all the main players and characters who are still alive, and vividly brings to life the story of that City team which with such wonderful panache, and freedom, won the first division title, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the European Cup Winners Cup between 1967 and 1970.This, though, is not just the story of one team, but a broader one of how sport can sometimes so perfectly mirror the exaltation and the despair of the real world, how it carries those who do it, and sometimes even those who merely see it, to moments that will claim a permanent place in their hearts.

The Forever Horse

by Stacy Gregg

An enchanting and inspiring stand-alone novel from the author of The Princess and the Foal.

Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius

by Oliver Kay

WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit.' - Mick Hume, The Times Adrian Doherty was not a typical footballer. For one thing, he was blessed with extraordinary talent. Those who played alongside and watched him in the Manchester United youth team in the early 1990s insist he was as good as Ryan Giggs - possibly even better. Giggs, who played on the opposite wing, says he is inclined to agree.Doherty was also an eccentric - by football standards, at least. When his colleagues went to Old Trafford to watch the first team on Saturday afternoons, he preferred to take the bus into Manchester to go busking. He wore second-hand clothes, worshipped Bob Dylan, read about theology and French existentialism and wrote songs and poems. One team-mate says "it was like having Bob Dylan in a No 7 shirt".On his 17th birthday, Doherty was offered a five-year contract - unprecedented for a United youngster at that time - and told by Alex Ferguson that he was destined for stardom. But what followed over the next decade is a tale so mysterious, so shocking, so unusual, so amusing but ultimately so tragic, that you are left wondering how on earth it has been untold for so long.The stories of Doherty's contemporaries, that group of Manchester United youngsters who became known as the "Class of '92", are well known. Giggs ended up as the most decorated player in United's history; David Beckham became the most recognisable footballer on the planet; Gary Neville, Paul Scholes and others are household names. The story you don't know is about the player who, having had the world at his feet, died the day before his 27th birthday following an accident in a canal in Holland.

„Forever Young?“: Intersektionale Perspektiven auf Alter(n), Fitness und Gesundheit (Sport – Gesellschaft – Kultur)

by Gabriele Sobiech

Der demografische Wandel stellt Staat, Politik und Wirtschaft vor neue, vor allem finanzielle Herausforderungen (Ebene der Macht- und Herrschaftsverhältnisse). Alter(n) (doing age) ist als soziales Konstrukt aufzufassen, das vor allem für diejenigen, die durch höhere Bildungsabschlüsse und größere finanzielle Mittel dem Trend zur Altersaktivierung durch Sport/ Fitness folgen können und einen gesunden Lebensstil pflegen, Selbstermächtigungschancen bereithält. Ziel dieses Projektes war es, mit einer intersektionalen, ungleichheitsreflexiven Perspektive anhand der Strukturkategorien Körper/ Alter(n), Geschlecht und Klasse Fitnessstudiowerbung zu analysieren, Trainer*innen mit Blick auf ältere Aktive zu befragen (Repräsentationsebene) sowie einen differenzierten Blick auf die im Rahmen einer qualitativen Interviewstudie erhobenen Selbsttechniken der im Fitnessstudio aktiven älteren Frauen (Subjektebene) zu richten. Einerseits kann durch die Arbeit am Körper die eigene, soziale Positionierung gestärkt werden, andererseits kann mit der Abwertung anderer, die dem Trend nicht folgen, eine neue Form des ‚Lookism‘ entstehen.

The Forgotten First: Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier

by Keyshawn Johnson Bob Glauber

The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come.More than a year before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, there was another seismic moment in pro sports history. On March 21,1946, former UCLA star running back Kenny Washington—a teammate of Robinson's in college—signed a contract with the Los Angeles Rams. This ended one of the most shameful periods in NFL history, when African-American players were banned from league play.Washington would not be alone in serving as a pioneer for NFL integration. Just months after he joined the Rams, thanks to a concerted effort by influential Los Angeles political and civic leaders, the team signed Woody Strode, who played with both Washington and Robinson at UCLA in one of the most celebrated backfields in college sports history. And that same year, a little-known coach named Paul Brown of the fledgling Cleveland Browns signed running back Marion Motley and defensive lineman Bill Willis, thereby integrating a startup league that would eventually merge with the NFL.THE FORGOTTEN FIRST tells the story of one of the most significant cultural shifts in pro football history, as four men opened the door to opportunity and changed the sport forever.

The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

by Lawrence D. Hogan

This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

The Forgotten History of African American Baseball

by Lawrence D. Hogan

This text gives readers the chance to experience the unique character and personalities of the African American game of baseball in the United States, starting from the time of slavery, through the Negro Leagues and integration period, and beyond.For 100 years, African Americans were barred from playing in the premier baseball leagues of the United States—where only Caucasians were allowed. Talented black athletes until the 1950s were largely limited to only playing in Negro leagues, or possibly playing against white teams in exhibition, post-season play, or barnstorming contests—if it was deemed profitable for the white hosts. Even so, the people and events of Jim Crow baseball had incredible beauty, richness, and quality of play and character. The deep significance of Negro baseball leagues in establishing the texture of American history is an experience that cannot be allowed to slip away and be forgotten.This book takes readers from the origins of African Americans playing the American game of baseball on southern plantations in the pre-Civil War era through Black baseball and America's long era of Jim Crow segregation to the significance of Black baseball within our modern-day, post-Civil Rights Movement perspective.

Forgotten Sundays: A Son's Story of Life, Loss, and Love from the Sidelines of the NFL

by Gerry Sandusky

Forgotten Sundays is the coming-of-age story of a father-son relationship and the value of a good name, which Gerry Sandusky knows all too well. He has had to endure having an unfortunate name in sports, but to him the Sandusky name means something entirely different: honor, integrity, endurance, and suffering and sadness.Forgotten Sundays follows the life and relationship between Gerry Sandusky and his father-former NFL tackle John Sandusky and coach for the Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and Miami Dolphins under the tutelage of legendary Coach Don Shula. Gerry spent his summers observing his father in NFL training camps and his Sundays with superstars, Hall of Fame players and coaches from Johnny Unitas to Dan Marino, from Don McCafferty to Tom Landry.Gerry's relationship with his father evolved through stages of worship, disillusionment, vulnerability, tragedy, and friendship. Along the way he learned about the nature of manhood from observations, clues, and interactions-more often than not unspoken. It was when Gerry reached fatherhood himself and when John Sandusky began to tumble into the gauzy confusion of Alzheimer's disease that he began to understand his father on a much deeper level.Heartfelt, intelligent, at times humorous, at times tragic, Forgotten Sundays explores the intricacies of a father-son relationship and the nuances of how and what a son learns from a father. It plumbs the meaning of a family name, and it is an inspiration to others to embrace their own legacy and cherish their memories.

Forgotten Sundays: A Son's Story of Life, Loss, and Love from the Sidelines of the NFL

by Gerry Sandusky

Forgotten Sundays is the coming-of-age story of a father-son relationship and the value of a good name, which Gerry Sandusky knows all too well. He has had to endure having an unfortunate name in sports, but to him the Sandusky name means something entirely different: honor, integrity, endurance, and suffering and sadness.Forgotten Sundays follows the life and relationship between Gerry Sandusky and his father -- former NFL tackle John Sandusky and coach for the Baltimore Colts, Philadelphia Eagles, and Miami Dolphins under the tutelage of legendary Coach Don Shula. Gerry spent his summers observing his father in NFL training camps and his Sundays with superstars, Hall of Fame players and coaches from Johnny Unitas to Dan Marino, from Don McCafferty to Tom Landry. Gerry's relationship with his father evolved through stages of worship, disillusionment, vulnerability, tragedy, and friendship. Along the way he learned about the nature of manhood from observations, clues, and interactions -- more often than not unspoken. It was when Gerry reached fatherhood himself and when John Sandusky began to tumble into the gauzy confusion of Alzheimer's disease that he began to understand his father on a much deeper level. Heartfelt, intelligent, at times humorous, at times tragic, Forgotten Sundays explores the intricacies of a father-son relationship and the nuances of how and what a son learns from a father. It plumbs the meaning of a family name, and it is an inspiration to others to embrace their own legacy and cherish their memories.

Forman's Games: The Dark Underside of the London Olympics

by Lance Forman

On 6 July 2005, the world held a collective intake of breath as IOC president Jacques Rogge declared: 'The games of the 30th Olympiad in 2012 are awarded to the city of … London.'Despite the images of jubilant crowds in the streets of Britain's capital, there were some, like Lance Forman, for whom those words spelled only dread and uncertainty. His 100-year-old, fourth-generation family business, H. Forman & Son, was facing eviction to make way for the Olympic Stadium, and teetered on the brink of collapse.A full, unexpurgated account of his fight to keep the firm alive, Forman's Games lifts the lid on the fierce battle that pitched Forman's, the country's finest purveyor of smoked salmon, against the combined might of the UK authorities and the IOC in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. It is a story of skulduggery and bullying mounted against 350 local businesses, employing over 12,00 people, who stood in the way not just of the world's most famous sporting event, but of an opportunity to develop the land on which they had successfully run businesses over decades.

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

by Joshua Robinson Jonathan Clegg

'HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT F1.' -Sam Walker, author of The Captain Class'MODERN F1 IS THE SPORTS STORY OF THIS ERA AND NO ONE COULD TELL IT BETTER' -Kevin Clark, ESPN'THE FASTEST READ YOU WILL EVER PICK UP' -A.J. Baime, author of Go Like HellF1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, petrolheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers and bitter rivalries.The story of F1's world dominance is one of near-constant transformation and experimentation. This is a sport where the only way to win championships is to land a series of technical moon shots - and then do it all over again. With fast cars, big money, beautiful people, and glamorous locations from Monaco to Melbourne, The Formula tells the full, epic story of the sport. Starting in 1950s Britain, where six years of wartime engineering laid the foundations for a new type of motorcar racing; to the first global star partnership of Senna and Ecclestone; Spygate; Crashgate and its transition into an entertainment juggernaut. Bringing unique insight and access to F1's most storied teams and personalities - from Ferrari to Lewis Hamilton to Christian Horner and Daniel Ricciardo -The Formula offers a riveting portrait of the drivers, corporations, cars, rivalries, and audacious gambles that have shaped the sport for half a century.The end result is a high-octane history of how modern F1 racing came to be - the first book to tell the story of the outrageous successes and spectacular crashes that led F1 to this extraordinary yet precarious moment. More than just a sports story, it is the tale of a commercial empire, one built in the 20th century, rendered almost obsolete in the early 21st, and re-emerged world-dominant today; a disrupter that claimed its place in the crowded sports marketplace through cash, personality, and a new understanding of what a sport needs to be in the age of wall-to-wall entertainment.

Formula 1: EDGE - Go Turbo (EDGE: Go Turbo)

by Tom Palmer

GO TURBO is power-packed with MORE FACTS, MORE RECORDS and MORE WEBSITES than most books. This book is about Formula 1, featuring everything from the top drivers to the best circuits. It includes a story called 'Commentator's Curse'.This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books to get children reading with confidence. EDGE - for books children want to read, and books children can read.

Formula 1 Racing Car (large print)

by Rnib

This page shows an image of a side view of a blue racing car with the front on the right and the rear on the left of the page. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. On the left of the page one of the two rear vertical spoilers can be found. The other rear vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Down from the spoiler is one of the two rear wheels. To the right of the wheel is one of the two exhaust outlets. Up from this the car curves up to left centre. To the right of the peak of the car the profile goes vertically down a short way. This is a side view of the air intake. Down and right from here is the top part of the driver's pale blue helmet and visor, most of which is hidden by the car's body shell. To the right of the visor is a wing mirror sticking up. In the centre of the front half of the car is one of the two front wheels. The front spoiler is in the bottom right of the image. It is one of the two front vertical spoilers. The other front vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Formula 1 cars usually have some form of sponsorship advertising on the bodywork. This is not shown on this image. The racing car is long, narrow and very close to the ground. The front and back spoilers cause downdraft so the car grips the road very well, even at high speeds. They have powerful engines enabling them to go very fast in races. They are only driven on race tracks, never on normal roads.

Formula 1 Racing Car (UEB contracted)

by Rnib

This page shows an image of a side view of a blue racing car with the front on the right and the rear on the left of the page. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. On the left of the page one of the two rear vertical spoilers can be found. The other rear vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Down from the spoiler is one of the two rear wheels. To the right of the wheel is one of the two exhaust outlets. Up from this the car curves up to left centre. To the right of the peak of the car the profile goes vertically down a short way. This is a side view of the air intake. Down and right from here is the top part of the driver's pale blue helmet and visor, most of which is hidden by the car's body shell. To the right of the visor is a wing mirror sticking up. In the centre of the front half of the car is one of the two front wheels. The front spoiler is in the bottom right of the image. It is one of the two front vertical spoilers. The other front vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Formula 1 cars usually have some form of sponsorship advertising on the bodywork. This is not shown on this image. The racing car is long, narrow and very close to the ground. The front and back spoilers cause downdraft so the car grips the road very well, even at high speeds. They have powerful engines enabling them to go very fast in races. They are only driven on race tracks, never on normal roads.

Formula 1 Racing Car (UEB uncontracted)

by Rnib

This page shows an image of a side view of a blue racing car with the front on the right and the rear on the left of the page. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. On the left of the page one of the two rear vertical spoilers can be found. The other rear vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Down from the spoiler is one of the two rear wheels. To the right of the wheel is one of the two exhaust outlets. Up from this the car curves up to left centre. To the right of the peak of the car the profile goes vertically down a short way. This is a side view of the air intake. Down and right from here is the top part of the driver's pale blue helmet and visor, most of which is hidden by the car's body shell. To the right of the visor is a wing mirror sticking up. In the centre of the front half of the car is one of the two front wheels. The front spoiler is in the bottom right of the image. It is one of the two front vertical spoilers. The other front vertical spoiler is on the other side of the car and cannot be found. They are joined together and to the car by a flat horizontal spoiler which also cannot be found. Formula 1 cars usually have some form of sponsorship advertising on the bodywork. This is not shown on this image. The racing car is long, narrow and very close to the ground. The front and back spoilers cause downdraft so the car grips the road very well, even at high speeds. They have powerful engines enabling them to go very fast in races. They are only driven on race tracks, never on normal roads.

Formula One: Made In Britain

by Clive Couldwell

Formula One: Made in Britain is one of Formula One's last untold stories.As a centre of technical excellence for over thirty years. Britain is at the sharp end of the worldwide motor sport industry, and playing ever harder to win. Most of the sport's Grand Prix teams are based in the UK and many of them have British managers and designers who act as a showcase for the UK's skill base - past, present and future.The success of Britain's Formula One industry has gone largley unrecognised outside the close-knit world of the racing aficionado. Now, with Formula One: Made in Britain, Clive Couldwell reveals what makes this industry tick and why many of the world's players choose to come here.He explores Motorsport Valley, an area which covers the south and Midlands of the UK, where 75 per cent of the world's single-seater racing cars are designed and built, and talks to many of F1's leading lights.Winning in F1 depends on innovation and performance-critical engineering, and in this fascinating and insightful book, Clive Couldwell show how UK research and development are leading the world.

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