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Old 11-22-2008, 08:30 AM
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Default Please list some of the "better" racing literature. I know there's alot of junk out there.
I've read the Skippy book "Going Faster" several times, but that's about it.
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Trained Seals Racing recommends Twist of the Wrist 1 & 2 by Keith Code
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Carrol Smith's Drive To Win and Mark Donahue's Unfair Advantage are must reads.
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2nd on Drive to Win. By far my favorite work on the subject
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Default Unfair advantage is great. So is Sunday Driver by Brock Yates, written during my very brief
tenure at Bondarant at Ontario Motor Speedway before they moved.
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Default "Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots" by Sam Moses...
A true-to-life look at "pro" road racing...but it's probably out of print.
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Default Not sure if you mean a novel or instructional book, but anyway, try "Merchants of Speed"
by the editors of SpeedTV, Mika Hakkinen or Ayrton Senna auto biographies, "Jim Clark at the Wheel, and so on. I even have a copy of the "Orange Carrot" by John Morton, but that one is a bit dry. Contact Aerobooks-Autobooks listed below. they have an unbelievable inventory. Closed Mondays.<ul><li><a href="http://www.autobooks-aerobooks.com/">http://www.autobooks-aerobooks.com/</a</li></ul>
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Note quite what you want, but The Art of Racing in the Rain is a great novel.
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2nd for unfair advantage. I also enjoyed Paul Frere's Sports Car &amp; Competition Driving.
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"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein, got a nice review in Autoweek. F1 based.
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