Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bob Bondurant, John Blakemore
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 751537
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0760306036
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.72
EAN: 9780760306031
ASIN: 0760306036
Publication Date: November 12, 1998
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Condition: Slight wear to corners.
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Product Description
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.
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 must have!!! June 26, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
if u really want to start out on hi-per driving u must get this one above all!!!
 Cool anectodes but fairly useless for learning driving techniques December 27, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read a lot of books about Performance driving/racing techniques lately and I have to say that this one pretty much ranks at the bottom.
It is a well written biography about Bondurants life (a whole chapter in the book, and intersperced throughout the text), but lacks on much useful information on driving and racing techniques. After reading a lot of other books on this topic I feel that this one is fairly light on actual information and driving techniques in comparison. It is more up to date though than some books written on this topic. I would probably recommend Carl Lopez'/Skip Barber's book "Going Faster" Or Piero Taruffi's book "The technique of Motor Racing(Driving)" and similar titles over Bondurant's book. It does make a quick read and an introduction to the sport though.
Great book for those of us who will never see F1 November 2, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It has been a while since I read this book, but I disagree with those who only see it as a plug for Bondurant's racing school. This is a well-written explanation of vehicle dynamics, and contains a wealth of information that is useful in everyday driving. I have tried to apply what I learned from this book in various low-buck automotive sport competitions, and frankly I just don't have what it takes to excel in motorsports. I do appreciate, however, Bondurant's efforts to explain everything from seating position, to how to place your hand on the sift knob, to proper line through the corner to gain the fastest exit speed. I believe reading this book has been at least as much benefit to my every day driving skill as the mega-buck 3-day race car driving school I took a few years back.
Stories about the good old days. August 31, 2001
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
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.
 Save your money for a pepperoni pizza April 30, 2001
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
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.
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