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| Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques |  | Author: Ross Bentley
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 31,340
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0760305188
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.72
EAN: 9780760305188
ASIN: 0760305188
Publication Date: August 13, 1998
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Product Description
Shave lap times or find a faster line through your favorite set of S-curves with professional race driver Ross Bentley as he shows you the quickest line from apex to apex! With tips and commentary from current race drivers, Bentley covers the vital techniques of speed, from visualizing lines to interpreting tire temps to put you in front of the pack. Includes discussion of practice techniques, chassis set-up, and working with your pit chief.
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A teacher's book, by a teacher of teachers August 13, 2010
Ed (Altadena, California United States)
A teacher's book, by a teacher of teachers, this book helps the driver to develop the most powerful modification to the car possible....the brain of the driver. This book is not just about the car, track and driver, but how to think and analyze all of them for whatever track you are on, car you are driving or conditions you confront. All of which will contribute to making you safer as well as faster on the track. The lessons are clear, some obvious and some quite subtle and far from obvious.....until you "get it". These elements are not typically addressed as well, if at all, in other books directed to performance driving, yet they are undeniably critical to going fast. It is a great little "refresher" to leaf through the evening before a track event, before you close your eyes and visualize driving the circuit in your head for a few laps prior to bed time.
Speed Secrets - Highly Recommended July 19, 2010
S. Smith (Austin, TX USA)
This book was getting a lot of discussion and recommendations at a DE I attended recently -- and after reading it I can see why! I can also see why most of the reviews here are highly positive.
I have also read Skip Barber's "Going Faster" and found it highly informative as well. "Going Faster" contains more technical details which should be expected as this is the "text book" for their schools. I would recommend reading both -- I don't know of anything you can buy for this price that will make your car faster.
Even if you just watch road course racing on TV, reading this book is useful. For example in Chapter 11, "Racing, Passing, and Traffic," the author talks about "presenting" which helped me understand the tactics involved in passing. I'm a DE guy with an old Autocross background and no plans to go wheel-to-wheel racing, but finer points like this make watching racing much more interesting.
Highly recommended.
I recommend the series to my race school students every time September 17, 2009
Peter Olson (Zhuhai, China)
I've been instructing for a while now, now mainly Formula Campus and Formula Renault, Ferrari etc...and i recommend these book EVERY time to new students. The ones who bought them, even just the first two, said that it was 'unbelievable how much it taught me about race driving'...for $24 for books 1&2, they will pay for themselves about a thousand times over in terms of improving your driving, and cover all basic race theory, lines, maximizing traction, driving on the limit, etc, etc, etc. Books 1 &2 are like your own 3-day race school in an easy-to-read format, but also go beyond that [obviously in 3 days there is only so much class time/theory you can get]. i don't think there's anything in the world of racing that could give you more for $24 [for the first two books]. Obviously there are way more technical books out there, but the Speed Secrets books are by FAR the best books to start with...Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving TechniquesSpeed Secrets II: More Professional Race Driving Techniques
Best book on race car driving I have seen August 4, 2009
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Bentley's book is the best I have read on the subject. It is nicely written (not obvious in this subject matter), the language being very clear and direct. Although different people learn in different ways this seems to be a book for everyone. The emphasis is however on formula (or at least rear engined) cars. Now, that Ross Bentley has enough distinct speed secrets to fill up five more books is frankly a stretch. I am reading the second one and, although perhaps at a more sophisticated level, the message is more or less the same. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand (if not try) how to drive a race car at speed. It is certainly worth the money and the time.
Concise and helpful read July 11, 2009
Clinton B. Wilson
I bought this book along with Going Faster, and have definitely gravitated toward this book. It's not quite as elementary and wordy. It's organized around propositional statements - "Speed Secrets" - which are supported with theory and example. Great read
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