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Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques [Kindle Edition]

Ross Bentley (Author)

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Length: 164 pages
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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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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1051 KB
Print Length: 164 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0760305188
Publisher: Motorbooks (13 Aug 1998)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004NNUXZ2
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Didn't like it... 26 Jan 2004

By D. Styles

Format:Paperback

fistly, must mention that I do race...

Bought this and Skip Barbers performance driving book.
Found this a bit simplified, and a bit iffy in places.

Maybe ok if you don't race,.. and you are looking for an understanding of techniques, or if you are a novice, but will not give you that final 5% on the racetrack I feel.

maybe I just didn't like the format, but I felt it wasn't in depth enough for me.... and felt that you could come out worse off.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Very useful and easy to read 31 Oct 2000

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Format:Paperback

I bought this book based solely on reviews on amazon. It was exactly as described. Easy to read and right to the point. I have a few other books on race driving, but this is the first I read from start to finish without beeing bored.

If you are interested in learning or understanding race driving, buy this book.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

A great little book 15 Oct 2008

By Dibbo

Format:Paperback

A very good book, easy to read, and some very useful hints, which may either be new to you, or simply make you re-think what you already know.

Highly recommended.

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the essential book for all want to be racing drivers

the book was extremely helpful, read it cover to cover rather quickly, it doesnt get too bogged down in details, but covers basically EVERY aspect of racing and I believe its... Read more

Published 1 month ago by mad ram

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I am just starting to race and am trying to understand some of the techniques, physics etc. I thought it was very good and I feel that it has increased my understanding.

Published on 29 Sep 2008 by G. E. Burke

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A great read and very easy to understand yet still covering every aspect in great detail. I'm now far more aware of how the car should and shouldn't handle and I'm far more... Read more

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On a track that is new to you, drive all corners with a very late apex at first. This will allow you a little extra room on the exit if you find the turn is slightly tighter than you thought. Then, with each lap, move the apex earlier and earlier in the turn until you are beginning to run out of track on the exit. Then go back to where you could accelerate out of the corner and still stay on the track. Thats the ideal apex. &quote;

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Evaluate and alter technique if required: Try accelerating more progressively or abruptly, trail braking more or less, turning in more crisply or more gently, a slightly different linewhatever it takes to accelerate earlier and carry more speed into the corners. &quote;

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So, the most important corner is the fastest corner that leads onto a straightaway. The second most important is the next-fastest that leads onto a straight, and so on down to the slowest corner that leads onto a straight. &quote;

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