Going Faster: Mastering the Art of Race Driving (Paperback)

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This book on race driving technique is intended to stand apart from all previous books on the subject. How? There are three major differences from existing works. First, its not one person's opinion of how race cars should be driven. The Skip Barber Racing School is a motor racing University, if you will. Each of the 100+ instructors bring with them unique experiences and points of view and the body of knowledge about the craft of race driving grows from an accumulation of the best input. Throughout the book the text and illustrations are illuminated by sidebar quotes from champion race drivers. The list includes Danny Sullivan, Skip Barber, Bryan Herta, Dorsey Schroeder, Jeremy Dale, Robbie Buhl, Brian Till, David Loring, Jim Pace, and Terry Earwood. The second major difference is that the book is intended to be a definitive work on what contemporary race drivers do to win races and championships. There is plenty of well-paced coverage of the techniques a beginner has to master, but it goes further than any other existing text in exploring the advanced techniques that make the difference between competence and brilliance. On-board data collection is continuously used to quantify how different techniques result in lap time differences. Finally, effort is taken to address a wide audience. The casual reader with an interest in auto racing, but no intent to get in a a race car, can skip from sidebar to side bar, then jump ahead to the advice and war stories of professional drivers which make up the bulk of the final chapters. In these chapters we compare how drivers adapt driving technique to increasingly faster and more complicated race cars. This section is salted heavily with quotes from the drivers who have won championships in cars ranging from Formula Dodge two litre single seaters through World Sports Car prototypes and Indy Cars. The racing beginner who is intent on learning will find that the progression of subjects is well suited to getting a thorough inderstanding of the knowledge and skills required to be successful. The experienced race driver can easily skim the fundamantals, (although I personally think that reviewing the fundamentals is useful for even the most experienced racer), and hone in on more advanced topics that can be immediately applied to the racetrack. This book is intended to be one that every race driver will have on the shelf to refer to when they've reached a plateau in thier driving. We hope readers will find that its akin to "The Elements of Style" for race drivers. The author's email addres is clopez@skipbarber.com. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.