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.

Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques

Engineering & Transportation

Bentley, Ross

Automotive

Motorbooks

Maximize your driving ability with tips from the experts! Based on performance seminars conducted by the authors for race car drivers, this informative guide helps you consistently perform at your highest level. Chapters discuss: The Driver - The Ultimate Management System; Inner Race Driving; Skills and Techniques; and Strategies.

Inner Speed Secrets: Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance

Langford, Ronn

Discover the secrets that will make you a faster and more successful racecar driver with this up-to-date insight into the latest techniques in racing. Professional driver and driving coach Ross Bentley, reveals what it takes to be fast and win races at the highest levels. Chock full of diagrams and concise "speed secrets," Bentley has created an all-new approach to learning and perfecting the ideal line around the racetrack. He teaches you how to turn errors into more speed, left-foot braking techniques, as well as three sure-fire ways to lower your best lap time. Ross Bentley, who is the author of Speed Secrets, Inner Speed Secrets, and Bob Bondurant on Race Kart Driving, was a driver for the winning SRPII team at the Rolex 24 Hour race at Daytona. Ross is a member of Team Seattle, which also took home second place in SRPII. The two Team Seattle cars finished 7th and 8th overall in a field of 44 cars.

Speed Secrets II: More Professional Race Driving Techniques

Ross Bentley. Race teams have discovered great benefits can be derived from "tuning" their driver to perform at his/her full potential. Thus, this book is for everyone who works with a driver: engineers, crew chiefs, team owners, mechanics, and the driver's parents. This unique book instructs the driver's support team how to prepare and communicate with the driver so the driver delivers the best performance in races, practice sessions, and off-track team functions. Written by veteran racer and driving coach Ross Bentley, this book helps the driver's support team devise effective approaches to "tuning" their driver. It will help them identify techniques that do and don't work with their specific driver. The result should be better communication and a driver who is "tuned" for success.

Speed Secrets 4: Engineering the Driver

Motorbooks Intl

With racing, as with almost any pursuit, being the best entails having a clear idea of what the best is--having a mental model that instructs and motivates and inspires. That's where Speed Secrets 6 comes in. Drawing on his extensive experience as a competitive driver and coach, author Ross Bentley helps the aspiring professional and the ambitious amateur develop the mental model that is essential for successful racing. His book reviews the techniques needed to drive fast, win races, and build a career as a professional race driver--and then, more importantly, schools readers in the process of turning this clear mental picture into racing perfection.

Speed Secrets 6: The Perfect Driver

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

With its solo set-up, more subdued speeds, and endlessly varying events and courses, autocross is the easiest, safest, and least expensive way to get into motorsports. Anyone with a helmet and a car can do it. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have some driving skills, which is where this book comes in. As a veteran racer and professional driving coach, Ross Bentley knows what it takes to compete and to win, and he gives readers the benefit of that knowledge in Speed Secrets 7: Autocross Driving Fundamentals. The first in the Speed Secrets series to address a specific form of racing, this volume focuses on the skills critical to autocross success: car handling and driver skill at high speeds on unique courses. Though slower than other motorsports in absolute terms, autocross, with its high number of turns per minute, can challenge even the most expert driver. Adapting his time-proven method of teaching drivers how to go fast, Bentley clearly details the steps and techniques that help autocross drivers maintain control and dominate a course at speed. Though specific to autocross, and essential to mastering its particular challenges, his advice and instruction in this book will prove invaluable to drivers who go on to road racing as well.

Winning Autocross Techniques (Speed Secrets)

Schroeder, Per

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 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:
<ul>
<li>Choosing the correct line</li>
<li>Overtaking maneuvers</li>
<li>Adapting to new tracks and cars</li>
<li>The mental game and dealing with adversity</li>
<li>Finding (and keeping) a sponsor.</li>
</ul>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!

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

In Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving, Ross Bentley explains in plain language how you can train yourself to become a true performance driver. With the promise of autonomous vehicles in our near future, and current cars equipped with "driver aides," it's not hard to feel like the art (and science) of performance driving has been all but lost. Don't lose hope! For every device designed to take the act of driving out of your hands, the desire to actively participate in driving a car becomes even stronger for driving enthusiasts. In Speed Secrets: The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving, you will learn exactly how to become an even better performance-oriented driver; whether it's to enjoy a twisty mountain highway, to take that secret back-road route to work, or even participate in a track day on a racing circuit.
From how to best use your car's controls, to cornering, to dealing with adverse driving conditions, The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving will make you a better performance driver. Along the way, you'll learn what ABS, traction and stability control, self-braking systems, and semi-automatic transmissions do, and how best to incorporate them into your driving.
This is the true guide to speed, and itwill help you understand your car more intimately than ever. Most importantly, it will fuel your passion for driving!

The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving: How to Get the Most Out of Your Modern Performance Car (Speed Secrets)

How will Performance Pilot help me?
Do you want to be a better pilot? Improve your stick and rudder skills? In Performance Pilot, noted performance coach, Ross Bentley, and professional pilot, Phil Wilkes, reveal aviation-specific procedures, techniques, and strategies to help you methodically, deliberately, and more effectively prepare for, conduct and evaluate your own flying, and consistently perform at the highest level. In short, this book will make you a better pilot.
Performance Pilot has helped all sorts of pilots improve their flying performance:
<ul>
<li>Learn faster &amp; more effectively</li>
<li>Consistently perform at your peak</li>
<li>Reduce flight test anxiety</li>
<li>Improve your aircraft handling</li> <li>Perform better in flight tests &amp; training</li>
</ul>What are pilots saying about Performance Pilot?Private PilotsBest money you'll ever spend to improve your piloting. Frank Maier Private pilot
Performance Pilot is full of priceless advice. Andrew Musca-Unger Flight Instructor &amp; glider pilotAirline PilotsGives pilots the best and most efficient techniques on improving their aircraft handling. Anthony Crichton-Browne A320 Captain &amp; aerobatic pilot
I used the ideas in Performance Pilot to great effect. There is no doubting that there was definitely an improvement in my performance. Ben Jobson B787 First OfficerMilitary PilotsAs a current instructor of F18 fighter pilots, this is certainly a book I will recommend to all my students. Marq Saunders Fighter Combat Instructor
In short, the strategies in this book can help build better pilots. Brent Keenan C17A Squadron CommanderMedia ReviewsThis is a book that should be part of every pilot's bookcase. Australian PILOT magazine
A must read. People of the Sky

Performance Pilot: Skills, Techniques, and Strategies to Maximize Your Flying Performance

Wilkes, Phil

Transportation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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