Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving
by Carroll Smith

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Book Review: Are you filthy rich and English? No?
Summary: 5 Stars

Or more specifically a road racer. NASCAR maybe, but not road racing.Sorry it's a sad but very true fact. How many American drivers are there right now in CART? 3(2000 season). See Carroll's point? I tell you the man speaks the truth! The first part of this book is on how hopeless it is for you to become a race car driver. Not really, he just tells you cold what it takes to become an F-1 racer. Win world in karts, Formula Ford 1600 (in England of course), then F3, F300, then the big time F-1. You need funding at all of these levels, something I don't have, but a 125cc shifter cart is plenty fast for me. Even Indy car drivers say that 125 shifter's are the most like Indy cars. It's the biggest bang for your buck, trust me.

The rest of the book describes the basics of race car driving. Picking the line, reference points, braking, trail braking, cornering and powering out of the corners. It's a good book, it helps you get through the basics, and take more of a scientific approach towards driving. This book is great, but "Tune to Win" is at least 50% better than this one if a little (very little) more advanced but tons more helpful. Also I think Skip Barber's book is more thorough on the subject, but ALL of Carrol's books are good, this one is no exception. There is more tid bits of practical tips and tricks in this book than you could accumulate in you whole life. Buy this book, and then get a real job. ;)

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