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Summary: Save your money for a pepperoni pizza
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to learn more about high performance driving without the cost of going to a school, but roughly half of this book is just advertisement of Bob's driving school in Southern California. For example, on controlling skids, he talks very little about how to get out of a skid and then he begins on how you can learn more if you come to his driving school because the school has such and such equipments. There's even an entire chapter dedicated to how to graduate from his driving school. He also seems to be obssessed with his past glory, which he doesn't mind spending time to talk about. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE.
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Summary: Excellent, But Only For Beginners
Review: I WAS PRESENTED THIS BOOK FROM ONE OF MY BEST FRIEND. I'VE APPRECIATED HIM UNTIL NOW. IT WAS A FIRST BOOK ABOUT DRIVING FOR ME. IT DESCRIBES WELL HOW YOU CAN MANAGE WEIGHT-TRANSFER OF YOUR CAR, HOW THE TIRE PRESSURE AND GRIP CHANGES WHILE CARS ARE RUNNING, HOW TO USE BASIC RACING SKILLS LIKE HANDLING, DOUBLE CLUTCH, HEEL AND TOE AND STUFF. IT WILL MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND BASIC RACING SKILLS AND MAKE YOU ADAPT THIS TO YOUR CAR ON THE STREET. AND IT'S VERY EASY TO UNDERSTAND. BUY IT NOW!
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Summary: Stories about the good old days.
Review: If you want to read some poorly organized stories about Bob's
good old racing days, this might be the book for you. If you
want to learn to drive quickly, this book will disappoint you.
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Summary: Stories about the good old days.
Review: If you want to read some poorly organized stories about Bob's
good old racing days, this might be the book for you. If you
want to learn to drive quickly, this book will disappoint you.
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Summary: Great place to start
Review: If you're interested in learing to drive race cars, this book is a great place to start. It teaches you the basic skills such as proper seating and hand placement, heel toe downshifting, cornering and other fundamentals. There is, however, no substitute for actual hands-on training and wheel time, and the book emphasizes this. I did get the impression that this book was a 144 page plug for Bondurant and his school which is why I only gave it 4 stars. But overall, a very good book for beginners.
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Summary: Great book for those of us who will never see F1
Review: It has been a while since I read this book, but I disagree with those who only see it as a plug for Bondurant's racing school. This is a well-written explanation of vehicle dynamics, and contains a wealth of information that is useful in everyday driving. I have tried to apply what I learned from this book in various low-buck automotive sport competitions, and frankly I just don't have what it takes to excel in motorsports. I do appreciate, however, Bondurant's efforts to explain everything from seating position, to how to place your hand on the sift knob, to proper line through the corner to gain the fastest exit speed. I believe reading this book has been at least as much benefit to my every day driving skill as the mega-buck 3-day race car driving school I took a few years back.
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Summary: Save your money for a pepperoni pizza
Review: This book is full of photos of Bob sliding old cars around on the track, and posing with other great old drivers. Some of the anecdotes are real hooters. But it's skinny on the "how to" parts. There's a lot of discussion about setting up your seat and pedals for a comfortable and efficient driving position, but not much about the specifics of choosing a line for this corner, in this car, in this weather, today. Not much about footwork or other aspects of driving technique, not much about car set-up, and nearly nothing about the physics underlying it all. A few glancing blows at topics like contact patches, but disappointingly little.Skip Barber's "Going Faster" is a better textbook, especially for someone like me, an engineer with an analytical mindset. If you want a driving textbook, get Barber's. If you want driving stories, get Bondurant's.
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Summary: good-old-boy anecdotes but not much about how to drive
Review: This book is full of photos of Bob sliding old cars around on the track, and posing with other great old drivers. Some of the anecdotes are real hooters. But it's skinny on the "how to" parts. There's a lot of discussion about setting up your seat and pedals for a comfortable and efficient driving position, but not much about the specifics of choosing a line for this corner, in this car, in this weather, today. Not much about footwork or other aspects of driving technique, not much about car set-up, and nearly nothing about the physics underlying it all. A few glancing blows at topics like contact patches, but disappointingly little. Skip Barber's "Going Faster" is a better textbook, especially for someone like me, an engineer with an analytical mindset. If you want a driving textbook, get Barber's. If you want driving stories, get Bondurant's.
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