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

by Ross Bentley

Overview

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 it will help you understand your car more intimately than ever. Most importantly, it will fuel your passion for driving!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760352373
Publisher:	Motorbooks
Publication date:	07/01/2017
Series:	Speed Secrets Series
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	500,756
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 4

Foreword 6

Introduction 8

Chapter 1 The Performance Driver's Mindset 16

Chapter 2 Vehicle Design and Driver/Safety Aids 24

Chapter 3 Vision: Leading the Way 32

Chapter 4 Seating and Body Position 42

Chapter 5 Steering 46

Chapter 6 Footwork 52

Chapter 7 Shifting 60

Chapter 8 Vehicle Dynamics 72

Chapter 9 Cornering 88

Chapter 10 Driving at the Limit 104

Chapter 11 Road Driving 116

Chapter 12 Track Driving 128

Chapter 13 The Mental Game 142

Chapter 14 High-Performance Driving 148

Appendix: Speed Secrets 152

Resources 155

Index 156

About the Author 160