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Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving Paperback - 2011

by Ross Bentley

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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 vehicle--and yourself. It's the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!

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  • Title Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving
  • Author Ross Bentley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Motorbooks International
  • Publication date 2011-08-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780760340509 / 0760340501
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Sports & Recreation
  • Library of Congress subjects Automobile racing - Psychological aspects, Automobile racing - Training
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011275375
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.7

About the author

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.

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