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  • The Chariot Makers: The Definitive Text

  • By: Steve Matchett
  • Narrated by: Steve Matchett
  • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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The Chariot Makers: The Definitive Text

By: Steve Matchett
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Summary

Along with three fellow motor racing enthusiasts, Steve Matchett - Formula 1 world champion mechanic; accomplished television broadcaster; and best-selling author - is trapped overnight in New York: a fogbound JFK airport. With no sign of the weather improving, talk between the stranded passengers inevitably turns to Formula 1. During the course of their cloistered night, with conversation fueled by regular trips to the departure lounge bar, our protagonists draw on Matchett's encyclopedic knowledge of grand prix engineering, his easy familiarity with F1 paddock life, to piece together the perfect dream-team Formula 1 race car. By use of his enviable signature talent, his ability to explain complex issues using straightforward, uncomplicated language, Steve Matchett shows us how the various F1 teams have arrived at their current state-of-the-art designs - lays out exactly how a championship winning grand prix car is assembled.

Originally published by Orion (of London) in 2004, The Chariot Makers is Steve Matchett's third book. Along with Life in the Fast Lane, and The Mechanic's Tale, this compelling, insightful story - its warm text reading as a novel - forms the final installment of the author's entertaining, timeless, and highly acclaimed Formula 1 trilogy.

©2004, 2018 Steve Matchett (P)2018 Steve Matchett
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A hatrick is scored!

The third of Steve's books I've read and loved it equally to the first two if not more. A distinctly different feel with more of a story being told but equally as interesting to the casual motorsport fan.

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strange ending

the main part of the book was great. very informative and all held together with a nice background story. I think it's 2 chapters too long though as the story ends and then you are subjected to 2 chapters of the author ranting about coffee and tourists. apart from that it's a great book.

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