Becoming a Pro Auto Racer
Becoming a Pro Auto Racer

Author: Dean Miller

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1482420783

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The fast-paced world of professional auto racing is fun and fiercely competitive. Those at the top worked long and hard to get there, perfecting their turns, tuning their cars just right, and finding lucrative sponsorships so they can enter the best races. Readers find out how many pro auto racers start out on the track through detailed main content and additional informative sidebars. Full-color photographs put readers in the driver’s seat, fulfilling their wish for knowledge on how to be a pro racer and satisfying their need for speed.

Ultimate Speed Secrets
Ultimate Speed Secrets

Author: Ross Bentley

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2011-08-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 161058273X

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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 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!

Speed Secrets
Speed Secrets

Author: Ross Bentley

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 1998-08-13

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1610600010

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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.

You Suck at Racing
You Suck at Racing

Author: Ian Korf

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781533185624

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A lot of books on driving are written by professional racers who assume you too want to be a professional racer. Not this book. It's written by a hobbyist who suggests you keep your day job. Besides, it's much more fun being an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional (just ask someone in the sex industry). This book is designed to help the average driver make the transition from commuter to safe road racer in as few pages as possible. I wrote this book because it's what I would have wanted to read when I first became interested in track driving: succinct, nerdy, practical, and occasionally diverting. It is not intended as a definitive tome or a work of art. It's more like a sandwich: convenient and nourishing.

Crashed and Byrned
Crashed and Byrned

Author: Tommy Byrne

Publisher: Corinthian

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906850180

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A raw, passionate autobiography from the only driver Ayrton Senna feared.

Optimum Drive
Optimum Drive

Author: Paul F. Gerrard

Publisher: Mango Media Inc.

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1633535185

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A champion racer and professional stunt driver reveals the secrets of peak performance in any endeavor. Optimum Drive is the complete step-by-step guide to maximizing human performance. As a professional racing driver and a driving coach for over twenty years, Paul F. Gerrard gives you his unique perspective on what causes people to stagnate with the idea of being merely good, when each of us has the potential to be great. Gerrard believes that peak performance is within our grasp. Gerrard helps you understand the mental toughness that it takes to reach that greatness. He starts off by taking you onto the track as he explores what driving at 200 mph can teach us about who we are. Using his experiences from behind the wheel at death-defying speeds, Gerrard breaks down the psychology of driving, what it takes, and how we can use it to achieve greatness in life. The key, he says, is the nirvana-like sensation of flow psychology, or being in the zone—a mental state in which one who is performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and joy. It is through flow psychology that Gerrard introduces a blend of holistic mindset combined with a competitive edge, which is essential to successful professional driving. This mix of guts, tenacity, and endurance is the foundation of Gerrard’s philosophy for attaining greatness—and can be put to work for you too, on or off the track.

Racing to the Finish
Racing to the Finish

Author: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0785221964

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Racecar driver Earnhardt was at the top of his game—until a minor crash resulted in a concussion that would eventually end his 18-year career. In his only authorized book, Dale shares the inside track on his life and work, reflects on NASCAR, the loss of his dad, and his future as a broadcaster, businessperson, and family man. It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn’t know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He’d dealt with concussions before, but no two are the same. Recovery can be brutal, and lengthy. When Dale retired from professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and happy life. Torn between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine, but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday, struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again the following weekend. In this candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up for the first time about: The physical and emotional struggles he faced as he fought to close out his career on his own terms His frustration with the slow recovery from multiple racing-related concussions His admiration for the woman who stood by him through it all His determination to share his own experience so that others don’t have to suffer in silence Steering his way to the final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.

The Warrior's Mind: For Race Drivers
The Warrior's Mind: For Race Drivers

Author: Enzo Mucci

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781916219014

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IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP YOUR INNER WARRIOR. To be a true champion you must remain mentally resourceful and access your skills whilst competing in an unpredictable and dangerous environment. In head-to-head battles you must outthink, outmanoeuvre and outperform your rivals. You must do this whilst risking your life and limbs as you fight your way to victory. To perform at your best in such an environment you need to share the same mental coding as a thoroughbred warrior. In this book you will be walked through the whole process for recoding your mind so you can create the warrior mindset needed to reach your North Star. You will build a mental model that will help you automatically perform as you want. What you are about to learn here has been tried, tested and proven to work in all levels of motorsport. This is designed to help you reach your next level. Highlights of what is covered in the Warrior's Mind: - Create a warrior's mental model - Reinstall a new belief system - Prime your mind - Control your emotions - Have bulletproof self-belief - Handle fear and nerves - Overcome your past - Learn leadership skills - Deal with criticism - Overcome challenges. The real battlefield is in your mind; so be the commander.

A Practical Guide to Race Car Data Analysis
A Practical Guide to Race Car Data Analysis

Author: Bob Knox

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2011-03-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781456587918

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A Practical Guide to Race Car Data Analysis was written for the amateur and lower-level professional racers who either have a data system in their cars or who may be thinking about installing one but who do not have access to an experienced data engineer. Many of the data systems available today at reasonable prices offer capabilities that only professional race teams could afford just a few years ago. Unfortunately, most of these racers do not know how to use more than a small part of those capabilities. Using real track data, numerous real-world examples, and more than 200 illustrations, the Guide gives them the knowledge and skills they need to select, configure and use their data systems efficiently and effectively.Beginning with a detailed discussion of the things racers need to know about the hardware and software necessary for a an effective data system, the Guide continues with chapters on basic data analysis tools, more sophisticated data analysis tools like x-y plots and math channels, damper potentiometers and the wealth of important data they produce, brake and clutch pressure sensors, and creative use of math channels. The Guide concludes with a comprehensive scheme for analyzing data, examples of the data views used with the scheme, and detailed information on how to create and configure the data views.

How To Be An F1 Driver
How To Be An F1 Driver

Author: Jenson Button

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1788702638

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AUTHOR OF SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, LIFE TO THE LIMIT In his 17 years as a Formula 1 driver, Jenson Button has picked up a thing or two about how to do the job properly. Sure, you need to be able to drive a car fast - and Jenson is on hand to pass on a few tricks of the trade here - but you also need to know the real rules for making it to the top. Like, how to tell a multiple F1 champion they need to check their blind-spot. What the difference is between a helmet and a hat, and indeed a 'helmet-hat'. How to practise your champagne spray ahead of the big day. Why it is never, ever, under any circumstances a good idea to buy a yacht. And how to face down your team when you've just stacked their multi-million-pound car into a wall during practice. But 'JB' (nicknames in F1 run the full range from initials to, well, just using first names) doesn't stop there. HTBAF1D (catchy) lifts the lid on the people, the places, the weird rituals, the motorhomes, the media, the cars, the perks and the disasters. Join Jenson as he reveals how not to race a stupid big truck, why driving Le Mans is like having five shots of tequila before lunch, and what to do when you finally hang up your helmet-hat.