Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving [Paperback]

Bob Bondurant (Author), John Blakemore (Author)

Book Description

Series: Bob Bondurant On | Publication Date: November 12, 1998

Achieve your full potential on the street or on the racetrack! Bondurant shares his vast experience of teaching thousands the skills of high performance driving. This book is filled with Bob's unique insights and valuable advice on the fine points of cornering, double-clutching, and shifting as well as cadence braking, throttle steering, and more. Filled with all-new photos of the latest cars and training devices.

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks; 4th edition (November 12, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760306036
• ISBN-13: 978-0760306031
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #971,749 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > Professional & Technical > Automotive > Driver's Education

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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good-old-boy anecdotes but not much about how to drive, November 25, 2000

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Robert A. Sutterfield (Saratoga, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Save your money for a pepperoni pizza, April 30, 2001

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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.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stories about the good old days., August 31, 2001

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J. Snider (Annandale, VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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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.