The Technique of Motor Racing
The Technique of Motor Racing

Author: Piero Taruffi

Publisher: Driving

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780837602288

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Written for the race driver and describes the qualities needed to be a good race car driver.

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!

Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Slot Car Racing: Tips, Tricks & Techniques

Author: Robert Schleicher

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781610605045

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Over the past three years slot cars have become one of the fastest-growing segments of the hobby industry. Slot cars have also become so fashionable they have received exposure in automotive and general interest magazines. The time is right for a meaty, loaded follow-up to the highly successful 2002 MBI release, Slot Car Bible. In this new title, Bible author and Model Car Racing magazine publisher Robert Schleicher provides enthusiasts with more tips, tricks, and track plans for 1/32-scale and HO slot cars. This title will offer a wealth of tuning, maintenance, and driving technique information and will include chapters on snap-together raceways and building cars from kits. It will also have performance tests of new products and plans for creating NASCAR replica cars and tracks.

Inner Speed Secrets
Inner Speed Secrets

Author: Ross Bentley

Publisher: MotorBooks International

Published: 2000-09-22

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780760308349

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Techniques to help drivers overcome the mental barriers that prevent successful racing.

The Racing Driver
The Racing Driver

Author: Denis Jenkinson

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780837602011

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When The Racing Driver was first published in the U.S. in 1959, Road & Track magazine hailed it as an "excellent book . . . the best ever written on contemporary drivers and their racing styles and habits." Over 45 years later, Denis Jenkinson's book has become a classic, highly valued for its historical perspective and views into the personalities of drivers who today seem larger than life.

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.

Going Faster!
Going Faster!

Author: Carl Lopez

Publisher: Driving

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780837602264

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This complete racer's reference is the perfect resource for all drivers from novice to expert. The fundamentals of fast driving are revealed in this definitive how-to book for racers. You will find the competition-proven methods of instructors and of professional drivers that will give you the know-how to work up the track and stay at the front. Interested in the world of racing? Just think, you can have all of the lessons and insights from Skip Barber instructors and from professional racers compiled in one handbook. This racing reference reveals the secrets of mastering car control, reducing lap times, as it takes the reader inside the world of racing. Going Faster! is the definitive book for the active race driver, the racer-to-be, and the auto-racing fan who wants to know what driving a racecar is really about.

Race to Win
Race to Win

Author: Derek Daly

Publisher: Motorbooks International

Published: 2008-02-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780760331859

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The keys to success and the principles of high performance from world-class race car driver, commentator, and entrepreneur Derek Daly.