The following books and videos are recommended by the staff at DrivingEvents.com for those interested in honing their driving skills.
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Going Faster : Mastering the Art of Race Driving by Carl Lopen, Danny Sullivan
This is the bible when it comes to high performance driving techniques.
It can get very technical at times and may only make sense after doing a
couple track events. You'll find yourself referring back to this book over
and over as you encounter new challenges.
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Speed Secrets : Professional Race Driving Techniques by Ross Bentley
An excellent book that describes basic performance driving techniques
in clear and easy to understand language. Also discusses techniques
applicable to real world driving, not just on the race track.
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Drive to Win : The Essential Guide to Race Driving by Carrol Smith, Idam Bamser
This book is an essential book for those interested in racing. It
covers not only racing techniques but everything about the sport
of racing, including fitness, equipment selection, tuning, etc.
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Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook by Vic Elford
If you want to learn how to really drive your Porsche this is the book for you.
Vic Elford has been racing various Porsches for most of his career. Although
he spends some of the book describing his most impressive racing accomplishments, he does get into quite a bit of detail about getting the most out of the
special driving characteristics of Porsche automobiles.
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How to Make Your Car Handle by Fred Puhn
This book has a great description of how to calculate roll center based on
suspension geometry. The author provides enough information without
overwhelming the reader. Even the most science-challenged reader will
understand how to understand the the physics of why their car handles
the way it does and how to best improve it.
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Secrets of Solo Racing : Expert Tecniques for Autocrossing and Time Trials by Henry A. Watts
This is, bar none, the best book available for
beginning autocrossers. Most of the other books recommended
here were written with road racing in mind and
are best taken with some perspective by the reader who
wants to autocross; this is the only "no experience
required" book listed here. Highly recommended.
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Le Mans (1971)
The classic Steve McQueen movie about the ultimate 24 hour French race.
This movie isn't much on dialogue, but the cinemetography is excellent
and really gets through the intensity of the greuling race. Probably
the greatest racing movie ever made. The DVD version isn't available
yet but hopefully soon.
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Gran Turismo 2 by Sony computer Entertainment
The best performance driving simulation game yet. Many of us who like
to drive our sports cars during the summer purchased Sony Playstations just
so we can play this came during the winter or any other time we have the
itch to drive fast but outside conditions don't allow it.
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Need for Speed : Porsche Unleashed by Electronic Arts
The most anticipated driving game of the year. This game contains just about
every Porsche ever produced. EA claims that since they were able to focus on one manufacturer's cars they were
able to make the driving experience more realistic than ever.
Although close in realism to Gran Turismo 2, it's not quite there, but having
all these Porsches makes this game a whole lot of fun!
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Need for Speed : Porsche Unleashed by Electronic Arts
Same as PlayStation version above except for the PC. Same game but better
graphics if you have the right kind of video card.
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