Reddit reviews Ayrton Senna's Principles of Race Driving

Ayrton Senna's Principles of Race Driving

This book is pretty awesome. I'm sure you could find a better price, I got my copy for like $35...

http://www.amazon.com/Ayrton-Sennas-Principles-Race-Driving/dp/1874557403/ref=cm_lmf_tit_25

Basically though you're trying to increase the corner radius to maximize mid corner speed. But there are also places where you would want to enter tight and sacrifice some mid corner speed to get on power earlier for a straight bit. Or take a wider entry line to brake late for passing or in a corner where it would be more beneficial to setup for the next corner. All lines depend on what happens before and after the corner.

Sorry if this is just a brain dump, I'm on my phone and formatting is hard...

Why is this book so obscure and expensive? Why wasn't it republished? You can find only 3 copies on Amazon, starting from $230. (edit: since I wrote that, two more popped up, reaching from $70 to $1153)

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I guess it has to do with the Senna family. They were allegedly very strict in providing home videos for the Senna documentary, requiring that Ayrton be presented in a favorable way, which is one reason why the movie ended up being biased and one-sided.

If you're curious about the early years of Penske, a driver named Mark Donohue was central to the operation in its early years and he quite literally wrote the book on autoracing.

The Unfair Advantage. It's not quite like Senna's book, which is actually a great textbook on how to drive a car, but it's a really good view on how Team Penske started and the principles it follows to this day.

I know everyone hates Penske, but there's a reason they do so well beyond having lots of money. They know how to properly spend it and how to work well too.