Product Description

All the vital techniques such as selecting the best lines, and using braking and reference points are covered in fine detail. The book explains the specific principles of kart driving. It illustrates the differences between decreasing, constant, and increasing radius turns, as well as positive, flat, and negative camber turns. Mental preparation, previsualization, dieting, training, racing in the rain, testing, passing, and many other facets are explained.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #492416 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780760310762
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

General book but lacks depth.
This book's content is very similar to Memo Gidley's book. Memo's book is in color and is more up to date. Memo's book also has slightly more information. You only need one of these books. Get Memo's if you need an overview of karting. You won't find detailed advanced driving techniques in either.

Great book for driving technique.
This book is geared towrd the racer who is just starting. It will help explain proper line and driving technique. I learned a great deal in requards to throttle and braking but it lacks in proper setup and maintenance. One thing that would have been nice to know is how to properly read tracks. An example would have been to show maps of a track and then show the proper race line in another map.

As a beginner it is a must read before bad driving turns into bad habits.

Good for beginners, but...
Bondurant's karting book is a good book if you haven't read any other books on race driving technique. If you have, however, the majority of the book reads like a summary of Ross Bentley's "Speed Secrets" series. There are only three our four chapters that are really specific to karting (I was hoping for more, unfortunately), but they discuss topics where karting may differ the most from other forms of motorsport.

If you have a child or teen interested in karting, this is a good starting point for them, if only to motivate them to read more in-depth books such as Bentley's "Speed Secrets" series or Carroll Smith's "...To Win" books.