You Suck At Racing

Author : Ian Korf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Automobile driving
ISBN : 153318562X

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You Suck at Racing by Ian Korf Pdf

A lot of books on driving are written by professional racers who assume you too want to be a professional racer. Not this book. It's written by a hobbyist who suggests you keep your day job. Besides, it's much more fun being an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional (just ask someone in the sex industry). This book is designed to help the average driver make the transition from commuter to safe road racer in as few pages as possible. I wrote this book because it's what I would have wanted to read when I first became interested in track driving: succinct, nerdy, practical, and occasionally diverting. It is not intended as a definitive tome or a work of art. It's more like a sandwich: convenient and nourishing.

Author : Ross Bentley
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610600019

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Speed Secrets by Ross Bentley Pdf

Shave lap times or find a faster line through your favorite set of S-curves with professional race driver Ross Bentley as he shows you the quickest line from apex to apex! With tips and commentary from current race drivers, Bentley covers the vital techniques of speed, from visualizing lines to interpreting tire temps to put you in front of the pack. Includes discussion of practice techniques, chassis set-up, and working with your pit chief.

Author : Ross Bentley
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781610582735

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Ultimate Speed Secrets by Ross Bentley Pdf

Performance and racing drivers constantly seek ways to sharpen their skills and lower their lap times. Ultimate Speed Secrets is the indispensable tool to help make you faster, whatever your driving goals. Professional race driver and coach Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indycars to World Sports Cars to production sedans, on ovals, road courses, and street circuits around the world. His proven high-performance driving techniques benefit novice drivers as well as professional racers. Ultimate Speed Secrets covers everything you need to know to maximize your potential and your car: Choosing the correct line Overtaking maneuvers Adapting to new tracks and cars The mental game and dealing with adversity Finding (and keeping) a sponsor. The pages are filled with specially commissioned color diagrams to illustrate the concepts described. Whether you are a track-day novice or a seasoned professional, Ultimate Speed Secrets will arm you with practical information to lower your lap times and help you get the best out of your vehicle—and yourself. It’s the ultimate high-performance driving tutorial!

Author : Gini Dietrich
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780133432190

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Spin Sucks by Gini Dietrich Pdf

Unleash Your Secret Weapon for Restoring Trust: Open, Honest Communications! Most PR books tell you how to “spin” your message. People are sick of that! Spin Sucks will teach you how to communicate honestly, responsibly, openly, and authentically…and truly earn the trust of your customers, stakeholders, investors, and communities. Top PR thought leader and blogger Gini Dietrich runs the number one PR blog in the world, spinsucks.com, where she shares cutting-edge tips and tools for effective, ethical communications. Now, she’s integrated all she’s learned into a complete, actionable guide for every business leader who understands there are new rules to communications, but don’t know what to do. No matter what your organization does, Dietrich will help you: Share your story more powerfully—without sex, extortion, or “truth-stretching” Humanize your organization, even if you don’t have outsized personalities Tell the truth, using the best techniques honed by centuries of storytellers Overcome whisper campaigns, anonymous attackers, and trolls Create fresh, honest content that’s compelling to both humans and Google Systematically prepare yourself to engage more successfully online Clarify and close gaps between your message and your customer’s perception Celebrate your brand ambassadors Master seven steps for handling online criticism, and transforming critics into fans Keep others from stealing your great content Learn actionable lessons from others’ successes (and failures) Develop more positive, productive agency (or client) relationships Converge paid, owned, earned, and shared media—and get more value from all of them spinsucks.com

Author : Ken Condon
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760366942

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Riding in the Zone by Ken Condon Pdf

Riding motorcycles is fun, but author Ken Condon maintains that there is a state of consciousness to be achieved beyond the simple pleasure of riding down the road. Riding in the Zone helps riders find that state of being. It's the experience of being physically and mentally present in the moment, where every sense is sharply attuned to the ride. Your mind becomes silent to the chatter of daily life, and everyday problems seem to dissolve. You feel a deeper appreciation for life. Your body responds to this state of being with precise, fluid movements, you feel in balance, your muscles are relaxed, and it seems as though every input you make is an expression of mastery. This is "the Zone." Condon identifies all of the factors that affect entering the Zone and addresses each one individually, from the development of awareness and mental skills to mastering physical control of the motorcycle. At the end of each chapter are drills designed to transform the book's ideas into solid, practical riding skills. Riding in the Zone takes riders to the next level in their skill set.

Author : Ian Korf,Mark Yandell,Joseph Bedell
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596002992

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BLAST by Ian Korf,Mark Yandell,Joseph Bedell Pdf

This is the only book completely devoted to the popular BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), and one that every biologist with an interest in sequence analysis should learn from.

Author : Tyler Hamilton,Daniel Coyle
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345530431

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The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton,Daniel Coyle Pdf

“The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book’s power is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity. . . . The Secret Race isn’t just a game changer for the Lance Armstrong myth. It’s the game ender.”—Outside NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional cycling—and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world’s top-ranked cyclists—and a member of Lance Armstrong’s inner circle. Over the course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy, fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to win the Tour de France. With a new Afterword by the authors. “Loaded with bombshells and revelations.”—VeloNews “[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problems to date.”—The New York Times “ ‘If I cheated, how did I get away with it?’ That question, posed to SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton’s new book.”—Sports Illustrated “Explosive.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)

Author : Garth Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061738098

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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it. “Splendid.” —People “The perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn’t only for humans, and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each other never really comes to an end. Every now and then I’m lucky enough to read a novel I can’t stop thinking about: this is one of them.” —Jodi Picoult “It’s impossible not to love Enzo.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human. I loved this book.” —Sara Gruen

Author : Matt Rendell
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780225449

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The Death of Marco Pantani by Matt Rendell Pdf

The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, now updated to include the 2014 and 2015 investigation into Pantani's death. National Sporting Club Book of the Year Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 'An exhaustively detailed and beautiful book . . . a fitting, ambivalent tribute - to the man, and to the dark heart of the sport he loved' Independent On Valentine's day 2004, Marco Pantani was found dead in a cheap hotel. It defied belief: Pantani, having won the rare double of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 1998, was regarded as the only cyclist capable of challenging Lance Armstrong's dominance. Only later did it emerge that Pantani had been addicted to cocaine since 1999. Drawing on his personal encounters with Pantani, as well as exclusive access to his psychoanalysts, and interviews with his family and friends, Matt Rendell has produced the definitive account of an iconic sporting figure.

Author : Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307488534

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My Lead Dog Was A Lesbian by Brian Patrick O'Donoghue Pdf

The Iditarod may be the only race that awards a prize for last place. But then how many people can even complete a course that ranges across 1,000 miles of Alaska's ice fields, mountains, and canyons at temperatures that sometimes plunges to 100 degrees below zero? In conditions like these, anything can go wrong. For Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, nearly everything did. In My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian, his reporter and intrepid novice musher tells what happened when he entered the 1991 Iditarod, along with seventeen sled dogs with names like Harley, Screech, and Rainy, his sexually confused lead dog. O'Donoghue braved snowstorms and sickening wipeouts, endured the contempt of more experienced racers (one of whom was daft enough to use poodles), and rode herd of four-legged companions who would rather be fighting or having sex. It's all here, narrated with self-deprecating wit, in a true story of heroism, cussedness and astonishing dumb luck.

Author : Bert Levy
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 031218624X

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The Last Open Road by Bert Levy Pdf

A year out of high school in the early 1950s, New Jersey mechanic Buddy Palumbo falls in love with two things at once: race car driving with its speed and adventure, and his boss' niece, Miss Julie Finzio

Author : Laura Langston
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554699650

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Last Ride by Laura Langston Pdf

He killed his best friend, Logan, in a street-racing accident a year ago. As he tries to make amends to Logan's girlfriend and keep his promise to never race again, Tom is haunted by his dead friend. He thinks Logan is trying to tell him something. Not only that, since he faces huge medical bills from the accident and may have to give up his car, the pressure to race is almost unbearable.

Author : Jenson Button
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Ltd.
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911600374

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Jenson Button: Life to the Limit by Jenson Button Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This is my life, not the stuff you've seen, but the things you haven't. This is my childhood growing up in the West Country, my struggles, my doubts and my hopes. It's the people I've met in my seventeen years in Formula One, many of whom I've loved, some of whom I definitely haven't. It's the laughs I've shared, the battles I've fought, some on the track with rivals and friends like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. It's the pressure I struggled with as I closed in on my World Championship in 2009, it's the calm I felt every time I settled into the cockpit. It's my dad - the many times he saved me, the one moment he doubted me, the hole in my life he left me. It's everything in one go, the good days as well as the bad. A life lived not just as a racing driver but, ultimately, as a human being.

Author : Roche, David,Roche, Megan
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492567646

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The Happy Runner by Roche, David,Roche, Megan Pdf

Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it once was? Then The Happy Runner is the answer for you. Authors David and Megan Roche believe that you can’t reach your running potential without consistency and joyful daily adventures that lead to long-term health and happiness. Guided by their personal experiences and coaching expertise, they point out the mental and emotional factors that will help you learn exactly how to become a happy runner and achieve your personal best.

Author : Carleton Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017873156

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Passage East by Carleton Mitchell Pdf