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Inner Speed Secrets: Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance [Paperback]

Ross Bentley (Author), Ronn Langford (Author)
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September 22, 2000
Maximize your driving ability with tips from the experts! Based on performance seminars conducted by the authors for race car drivers, this informative guide helps you consistently perform at your highest level. Chapters discuss: The Driver - The Ultimate Management System; Inner Race Driving; Skills and Techniques; and Strategies.

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About the Author

Vancouver, Canada\u2019s Ross Bentley is a former Indy Car driver and winner of the U.S. Road Racing Championship. Today, he is a professional driving coach who works with drivers at every level of racing, from karting to the IRL.

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Motorbooks; 1st edition (September 22, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0760308349
  • ISBN-13: 978-0760308349
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #526,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I love to write! Well, duh. I guess after nine books, that's a bit obvious.

I could tell you all about how, at the age of five, I declared that I would be a professional race driver when I grew up, but that would mean that I grew up - and I don't feel like I have! See, I've spent my life doing what I love: driving race cars, coaching drivers, talking about driving, writing about performance in sports and business, coaching executives and business owners, learning, and writing about them all.

Behind the wheel, after years of racing sprints cars, Formula Ford, Formula Atlantic, Trans-Am, I finally realized my dream of racing Indy cars. And then, after a few years of struggling with underfunded and "under-competitive" Indy cars, I got the opportunity to drive prototype and GT sports cars in IMSA, Grand-Am and ALMS.

I'm a "learning junkie." I've focused my addiction on sports psychology, educational kinesiology, neuroscience, human learning strategies and coaching for performance. While testing all of these techniques and strategies on myself, I won the 1998 United States Road Racing Championship, driving for the factory-backed BMW team, and the 2003 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. As a coach, my drivers have won at practically every level and in every form of motorsport: road racing, oval racing, motorcycles, drifting, and even drag racing, in North America and around the world. I also do a lot of speaking engagements and seminars at car club events, working with both individuals and entire groups, drivers and instructors. Check out http://drivercoach.net/ and https://www.facebook.com/Drivercoach.

But performance is performance. It doesn't matter if it's on the race track or in the boardroom. I've had a blast successfully applying the same performance-based approaches to the business world (coaching executives, managers, sales people, teams, etc.) that I do with drivers. Interestingly, some of my business coaching clients don't know a thing about my motorsport background - and it doesn't matter since my focus is on helping them improve performance in the workplace. Check out http://performance-rules.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/Goperform).

While I live in the Pacific Northwest, my coaching and speaking engagements ensures that I travel a lot - something that I have a love-hate relationship with. I share some of my travel experiences at https://www.facebook.com/Roadramblings.

That's it. I gotta go do some writing.



 

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Secrets unlocked, November 6, 2000
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This review is from: Inner Speed Secrets: Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance (Paperback)
What a revelation! We have been told for years that our mind harnesses the power to overcome all. In Ross and Ronn's book, these principles are succinctly laid out with techniques and exercises directly related to race driving. I recognized many situations in my own racing and have used their exercises to improve my performance and confidence on the race track. This book is a must read for anyone in racing (or in life)who wants to ensure consistency. For those who think racing is all guts - you are missing the boat (or shall I say the checkered flag) by not reading this book! PS - They also have a wonderful seminar too!
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Inner Speed Secrets, April 13, 2001
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Don Kitch Jr. (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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Race car drivers can be, and must be continually developed beyond the capabilities of their car. Inner Speed Secrets clearly explains the mental engineering of today's winning drivers. If you are serious about your racing---this book is a must. Don Kitch Jr. Chief Instructor ProFormance Racing School Seattle International Raceway
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's All Mental: What separates Good Drivers from Great Ones, September 30, 2004
This review is from: Inner Speed Secrets: Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance (Paperback)
In the olympics, studies have shown that those who practice mentally (visualization, psychology, self-talk, etc) as well as physically (actual physical training) do better than those who just grind it out on the training field.

In a sport where there is a fusion of man and machine, it is even more important to "Maximize Your Racine Performance" by adhering to the strategies such as what Ross Bentley has outlined.

If you're a driver who has reached a plataeu and can't seem to improve, there's a great likelihood that it's not more practice or track time that's needed -- but more mental practice. And that's cheaper, too!

Ross outlines great mental techniques in this book that are easy to follow, and very applicable to the sport of race car driving.

For a bigger picture on Mental Training, I urge to to also look at Ken Baum's The Mental Edge. Then make sure you have this book by Ross to have mental training specific to race car driving.

Highly Recommended!
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