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Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 798 g, 115 color & 26 b-w images
  • Sari: Speed Secrets
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Motorbooks
  • ISBN-10: 0760340501
  • ISBN-13: 9780760340509
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 798 g, 115 color & 26 b-w images
  • Sari: Speed Secrets
  • Ilmumisaeg: 25-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Motorbooks
  • ISBN-10: 0760340501
  • ISBN-13: 9780760340509
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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 all 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 line Overtaking maneuvers Adapting to new tracks and cars The mental game and dealing with adversity Finding (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 vehicleand yourself. Its the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!

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"This new book presents more racing knowledge in an easy to comprehend, adapt and use than any previous ones over decades of racing. It is not a quick read but an excellent one with much to ponder, reflect on and put into practice. After each track session you'll probably return to it to further hone your skills and fitness both mental and physical. It is complete coaching for the vintage or amateur and it also has many items for the serious aspiring oval or road racer. This means team building, team dynamics, sponsors and sponsorships and much more. It has much to offer the vintage racer no matter the type of car or the intensity of the competition. Buy it, read it, practice the info and you'll be a safer, quicker and more satisfied race car driver." - Vintage Oval Racing "If you are a track-day driver or a regular racer, I guaranteed the $20 or less you pay for his book will be the most cost-effective way to lower your lap time you ever invested." - Keith Martin's Sports Car Market Ross Bentleys Speed Secrets series of coaching books are a favorite around our office: they really help the driver to grasp what it takes to win. From cornering to the business of racing, Ross has covered it all. Ultimate Speed Secrets is a condensed version of all of his previous books and serves as a good refresher for those of us who havent read his back catalog in years. Put it on your shelf, or in your gear bag for those long nights before the big race.  Grassroots Motorsports

Virtually everyone who races wants to improve their technique and lap times. Ross Bentley is one of the best-known racing instructors who has been able to put to words what he teaches in person, down to choosing lines and adapting to different cars and trucks. This is the latest version of his previous work with completely new text, photos and diagrams. Well worth the read to get your needed speed! - Vintage Motorsport

>Author Ross Bentley dishes on what every professional track driver knows about driving that you probably dont. Hes no amateur; Bentley won the United States Road Racing Championship while driving for BMW-backed racing team, and the 2003 24 Hours of Daytona. Even if youre not venturing onto a track, knowing how to clip an apex should help on freeway ramps. - The Virginian-Pilot

Preface 4(1)
Introduction 5(4)
1 Behind the Wheel
9(4)
2 The Controls
13(5)
3 Shifting
18(5)
4 Chassis and Suspension Basics
23(7)
5 Race Car Dynamics
30(18)
6 Driving the Limit
48(10)
7 Fancy Footwork
58(14)
8 Cornering Technique
72(8)
9 The Line
80(7)
10 Prioritizing Corners
87(5)
11 Different Corners Different Lines
92(3)
12 Learning the Track
95(7)
13 The Exit Phase
102(3)
14 The Entry Phase
105(11)
15 The Midcorner Phase
116(4)
16 Vision
120(3)
17 Racing in the Rain
123(5)
18 Racecraft
128(5)
19 Different Cars, Different Techniques
133(2)
20 How the Driver's Mind Works
135(4)
21 Brain Integration
139(5)
22 Sensory Input
144(14)
23 Mental Programming
158(19)
24 State of Mind
177(2)
25 Decision Making
179(1)
26 Focus
180(3)
27 Behavioral Traits
183(3)
28 Belief System
186(7)
29 The Inner Game of Racing
193(17)
30 Managing Errors
210(7)
31 Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
217(2)
32 Using Your Strengths
219(2)
33 Learning
221(14)
34 Adaptability
235(11)
35 Oval Track
246(3)
36 The Unknown Corner
249(3)
37 Car Control
252(1)
38 The Limit
253(4)
39 Going Faster
257(6)
40 Practice and Testing
263(7)
41 Qualifying
270(4)
42 The Race
274(6)
43 The Complete Race Driver
280(6)
44 Engineering Feedback
286(4)
45 Team Dynamics
290(10)
46 Data Acquisition
300(6)
47 Communications and Records
306(3)
48 Safety
309(5)
49 Driver as Athlete
314(3)
50 Flags and Officials
317(2)
51 The Business of Racing
319(7)
52 The Perfect Driver
326(4)
53 The Real Winner
330(3)
Appendix A Resources 333(1)
Appendix B Self Coaching Questions 334(1)
About the Author 335(1)
Index 335
Ross Bentley is the author of the popular Motorbooks Speed Secrets series. He is a racing coach, race car driver, author, and speaker. Bentley grew up in a racing family in Vancouver, British Columbia. He raced in the CART Indy Car series in the 1990s before moving on to endurance racing, where he won the 1998 GT3 United States Road Racing Championship and the 2003 SRPII Class Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. Bentley currently resides in Redmond, Washington.