Press Coverage
- An excerpt of the book is featured in the March 3rd issue of TIME magazine, along with a great graphic on the physics of turning corners and an interactive web feature showing why it isn't as easy to drive fast as you might think.
- A review on NASCAR.COM
- A New York Times article by John Tierney on the book and his experiences in the garage at Daytona.
- A review of the book from the Daytona Beach News-Journal
- An interview on the Cocktail Party Physics blogsite in two parts, focusing on communicating science and education, and on the physics in NASCAR.
- Allen St. John's column By the Numbers in the Wall Street Journal.
- A story from the University of Nebraska about the book release.
- An animation showing the differences between the old car and the new car from Time.com
- The Sports Illustrated 2007-2008 issue (the one with the Hendrick drivers on the front) has a little blurb about the book on page 16 -- I'll be posting something in the near future explaining the physics behind Tony Stewart's ability to climb fences!
- Popular Mechanics' February issue features a piece by Allen St. John called Anatomy of a NASCAR Crash
Meet Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Photo by Sarah Pfeiffer Photography, Inc.
One afternoon in 2005, I was channel surfing and happened to catch a group of racecars coming around the corner of a track. Without warning, one of the cars wiggled ever so slightly and then slammed into the outside wall. It took a while to clean up the track, so I got to watch quite a few replays of the crash. Each viewing made me a little more agitated because it just didn't make sense to me. There were no engine failures, no flat tires, no contact with the other cars… So what happened? More...
