Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques | Ross Bentley

Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques | Ross Bentley | Great Racing Book

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	Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques Ross Bentley Motorbooks, 1998 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Speed Secrets

This is an excellent introduction to the skills necessary for driving on a race track, whether as an aspiring race driver or for the recreational lapping day or driver school participant. Bentley's writing style is clear and easy to understand, without in any way dumbing down the content.

However for the reader who has already been through a professional track school such as Skip Barber or Bob Bondurant, or if you've attended one of the excellent BMW Car Club schools, then much of this book will already be familiar to you.

Fortunately Bentley also has something for the more advanced drivers: "Speed Secrets 2 - More Professional Race Driving Techniques," which I recommend highly.

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It's a really great racing book, it covers the basics of race driving, and many of the techniques that are needed in racing, specially the Cornering Technique, which I need most, and it shows many examples of turns and their techniques.
I recommend this book along with the other Speed Secrets Books for new racers.

Buy this book

This book is really worth the money.... the author is really experience and many of the advice is on common sense... you may not believe it but most people think they know how to drive fast and a lot of them have no common sense like not wearing seats bealt or having real driving shoes or just bang the gear changer... they look like they can drive fast but when you pitted them against a pro race car driver on a circuit doing 15 to 30 lap... they won't be able to catch up with the pro race car driver... anyway.. buy this book or better yet attend a racing school...and if you buy this book.. the theory will help you learn faster....

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Good bood for racers

Unfortunately, I'm not a racer. I was looking for info more along the lines of performance and safety techniques to use on the road, not a race track. It didn't offer a lot for every day driving, unfortunately. But - it didn't claim to either. I'd read what the book covered and took a chance that I might get something more out of it than I did.

That said, I still found it very interesting to be exposed to the depth of the science behind racing. Not that I didn't expect there was a lot to it, but to read about what's going on in those guys minds - wow! The book explains well various techniques (and more importantly to me, the reasons behind the techniques) for cornering, developing a line through a race track, and other side items such as prepping for a race.

I'm a fan of motorcycle racing more than auto racing, but I believe a lot of the info here is valuable to bikers too. On a side note, after reading this it re-inforces my lack of enthusiasm for NASCAR races. I'm sure there's something exciting about them, but going around in a circle doesn't seem nearly as challenging as Le Mans or other road races.

If you're actually racing on a track, this book will probably give you good information. And, as the book claims, I believe it's worth owning so that you can re-read it periodically. But that's coming from someone who doesn't actually race, so take it for what it's worth!

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Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques

Very helpful book. I will be buying others in the series.

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