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Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals.
Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to know to maximize your potential and your car:
Choosing the correct lineOvertaking maneuversAdapting to new tracks and carsThe mental game and dealing with adversityFinding (and keeping) a sponsor.The pages are filled with specially commissioned color diagrams to illustrate the concepts described.
Whether you are a track-day novice or a seasoned professional, Ultimate Speed Secrets will arm you with practical information to lower your lap times and help you get the best out of your vehicle—and yourself. It’s the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!
From the Publisher
Speed Secrets!
Driving a race car is not something you can do “by the book.” You have to learn mostly through hands-on experience, but you can learn many of the basics by reading and studying a book. Save years of trial and error learning by simply reading and understanding this book!
For the Beginner…
I hope this book serves as a reference for a long time. Some of the information may not make sense until you’ve gone past the basics and begun working on fine-tuning your techniques. But I hope it will help you start on the right foot and that you can refer to it again later.
For the Experienced Driver…
There may be a lot of information you already know. You may be using some of that information, and you may not even understand why you are using some of it. I suggest you read it again and really think it through. It’s surprising how a fresh approach can sometimes make it all click for you, resulting in a dramatic increase in speed.
This Book is Your Guide to Success
Parts of Ultimate Speed Secrets are written with one focus: driving a car at the limit, getting the maximum speed out of it, no matter what the surface or layout of road or track in front of you. Another part of the book is written in the pursuit of winning races. No matter how fast you are, there comes a time in racing where the wheel-to-wheel competition, or racecraft , takes precedence. It’s one thing to drive fast and another entirely to out-race the competition. And because some people either want to make a living racing professionally, or at least want someone else to off set their expenses, I touch on what it takes to be a professional racer, from career moves to sponsorship.
Even if you are a beginner, reading and using the information in this book may help you develop your basic skills without acquiring any bad habits. That will give you an edge on your competition, who oft en spend more time dealing with their bad habits than working on improving.
ASIN : B005J0K7X6
Publisher : Motorbooks
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : August 28, 2011
Edition : First
Language : English
File size : 46.0 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 338 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1610582735
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : Speed Secrets
Best Sellers Rank: #192,807 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #5 in Automotive Engineering (Kindle Store) #5 in Driver’s Education (Kindle Store) #19 in Motor Sports (Kindle Store)
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Customers say
Customers find the book very readable and informative, with one review noting it serves as an excellent guidebook for learning driving techniques.
