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Bob Bondurant on Race Kart Driving

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This book's content is very similar to Memo Gidley's book. Memo's book is in color and is more up to date. Memo's book also has slightly more information. You only need one of these books. Get Memo's if you need an overview of karting. You won't find detailed advanced driving techniques in either.

This book is geared towrd the racer who is just starting. It will help explain proper line and driving technique. I learned a great deal in requards to throttle and braking but it lacks in proper setup and maintenance. One thing that would have been nice to know is how to properly read tracks. An example would have been to show maps of a track and then show the proper race line in another map.

As a beginner it is a must read before bad driving turns into bad habits.

Bondurant's karting book is a good book if you haven't read any other books on race driving technique. If you have, however, the majority of the book reads like a summary of Ross Bentley's "Speed Secrets" series. There are only three our four chapters that are really specific to karting (I was hoping for more, unfortunately), but they discuss topics where karting may differ the most from other forms of motorsport.

If you have a child or teen interested in karting, this is a good starting point for them, if only to motivate them to read more in-depth books such as Bentley's "Speed Secrets" series or Carroll Smith's "...To Win" books.

I got this book because I wanted to get to know Kart racing a little better and someday go to Bob's school. I have to say this book gave a lot of great information about Kart racing. I would highly recommend this book to any future or present racer. I would also recommend Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving. Both books give you the best info next to learning from Bob himself of course:)

Simple. general.
Not technical book. Complete guide for beguiners

I recently started racing go-karts and wanted to buy a book with some racing secrets and of course tips on proper racing techniques etc. I found that I knew most of want the book had to offer. In other words I did not find the book helpful to me in improving my racing skills. I felt that this book would benefit a first time rider someone starting out with 3 to 6 months or some one that just does not have the competitive edge due to lack of racing techniques and skills. I did think it was easy to read and explained racing techniques very well. I wish I had red this book a year ago. I learned these techniques the hard way (trial and error). I was able to read the entire book with in 2 hours and it was easy to refer back to curtain techniques that I wanted to share or simply read again. This is a great book for some one new to racing.

As a rookie KART driver, I had a rough idea of what to do (right, left, forward) and what not to do (up, down, backwards). Bob's book gave me a mental baseline from which to approach a systematic improvement program. After that, it's pretty much up to me, as it should be. I'd recommend this to anyone seeking to improve.

On the plus side, there's a good deal of great content and advice in here, covering the key aspects of kart racing. It's also written in a very straightforward manner, and contains almost no technical content so beginners won't feel intimidated. This is, as the title says, a book focused solely on the driving aspects.

Less impressive, however, is the fact that not many images are used (and there's even fewer diagrams), and they're all in black and white.

It's also rather short, meaning some areas aren't covered in perhaps as great a detail as you might like/expect.

As such, I wouldn't recommend it as a primary book on karting - there are more comprehensive and better detailed/illustrated books available (Karting: Everything You Need to Know and Haynes' The Karting Manual come to mind). But as an additional purchase to accompany one of those more substantial publications, it's certainly worth a read.

I am beginner of Kart. This book is great eye opener for me. Bob describes things very logical and in structured way which helped me to understand points clearly.
Thanks Bob.

Well, I do have some experience in karting and thought that it will be very difficult to find out something new. But from that book I've learned at least a few new tricks. Don't think that I could have reached them by my self. But still there is a sense of some mention failure (as if the author leaves something for him self or just want you to learn the most important thing only).