Think to Win: The New Approach to Fast Driving

This book goes into so many elements of what it takes to be fast it is almost encyclopedic. I've read the Carroll Smith series and books by Vic elford and others, but none of them offered the nuts and bolts of the psychology of racing like this book. It not only telsl you to look ahead, and to look where you want to go as opposed to where you dnt' want to go, but also explains WHY our brains respond to the strategy, which helps drive the point home. It offers many strategies and helps redefine many terms that you thoguht you knew and understood to frame them in ways that will make you attack the track differently and shave time off.It is comprehensive and full of good stuff with anecdotes tossed in to keep it interesting. It's written simiilarly to a text book, but is more interesting than any I've used.While it may be coming up on twenty years old, all the advice is still aplicable down to the reasoning why driving simulators are handy, though trying to track down their recommended simulators would surely be difficult and frivolous.Overall a great book.

This book is designed for real life racers but also applies to sim racers as well. Some great tid bits I could share in a few words, but I bought the book for that advantage! And so must you! I got it used for a fair price. Recommended.

This is an excellent book for a new and an experienced race driver.It is packed full of necessary instructions and advice that any race driver needs if he/she wants to succeed. I have read it twice so far and will read it again just before our race season starts. If you could only read one book on racing, this would definitely be it.

a complete book

If you only have one Racing book this is the one to have.Read it, Read it again, and then again. It shows you what to think to go racing and winning.

The writing is a bit dry, and you can't read a portion of a sentence and assume you know what the authors mean - you have to read every word or you will miss things. And that's it with the downsides.As far as the upsides go, I've read this some time back, and am stunned as to how useful it has proved with timeNote, this book does not really teach to how to drive, it even focuses on the assumption that your driving skills are about on par with your competitors. Instead, they focus on what's happening in your head. What you should and should not be thinking about, how and when to make your move, reading your competitors, recognising that right time to overtake (or not) - all the things you may not have thought of (or thought were easy) when you started racing.With a few exceptions, the authors have mostly avoided focusing on particular classes of racing, or the tools, which makes the skillset learned here easily transferrable across to whatever you're doing. Even some skills I've learned here have greatly assisted me with entirely unrelated issues I've had later in life. They do mention several computer simulators, but truth be said, they don't matter anyway. Any simulator, game or other activity that requires your full concentration (with no breaks) for a solid hour or two is enough to train your brain to keep up under race conditions.Well worth it, I've recommended this book to a number of racing friends, and they've all reported improving in a variety of areas.

I found "Think to Win" to be a great help in identifying and understanding areas of my racing that I didn't even know existed! I am positive that I am a better driver than I was before I read it. In fact, I read it every year before the season starts!