Motorbooks imprint: 36 books
Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving
The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Ultimate Speed Secrets is the drivers’ guide to going faster! Professional race instructor Ross Bentley has raced everything from Indy cars to world sports cars and has the experience to make any racer a more complete driver. With detailed drills and comprehensive instructions, Bentley covers everything...
Speed Secrets 5: The Complete Driver
The Complete Driver
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
To succeed in any form of racing, a driver must be more than fast. In today's ultra-competitive motorsports scene, where there's competition for financial support as well as for checkered flags, a racer must have a full complement of on-and off-track skills. To become a champion, a driver must augment...
by Brock Yates
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2003
This first book of its kind tells the behind-the-scenes story of the incredibly illegal Cannonball rally. This best seller is now available in paperback!In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver Magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy...
Mickey Thompson: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend
The Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
When Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were assassinated in their driveway in the pre-dawn hours of March 16, 1988, the salacious details of the crime and the years of legal wrangling that followed made for hundreds of splashy headlines and sexy television soundbytes. After all, the story had it...
Terry the Tramp: The Life and Dangerous Times of a One Percenter
The Life and Dangerous Times of a One Percenter
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Some folks find their way to the bright white side of the tracks, but there’s a small percentage who run through the dark alleys of life. Even a smaller portion of those survive. Terry “the Tramp,” born in 1947 to a broken middle-class home in Alhambra, California, grew up with a violent chip...
Riding on the Edge: A Motorcycle Outlaw's Tale
A Motorcycle Outlaw's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Ride with author John Hall into the turbulent world of 1960s bike club culture, from the time he joined an upstart motorcycle club from Dixie, and rose to become Long Island chapter president of the Pagans, a club that the FBI called "the most violent criminal organization in America." Follow him...
The Original Wild Ones: Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this "raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubs" (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred "Boozefighters,"...
The One Percenter Encyclopedia: The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite
The World of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs from Abyss Ghosts to Zombies Elite
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Ever wonder how the Hells Angels got their name? Ever wonder about that little demonic critter on the Pagan’s patch? Ever wonder about the local one-percenter motorcycle club that hangs out at the corner bar? The One-Percenter Encyclopedia answers these questions and many more. Featuring concise...
Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques
Professional Race Driving Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1998
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...
Speed Secrets II: More Professional Race Driving Techniques
More Professional Race Driving Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2003
Discover the secrets that will make you a faster and more successful racecar driver with this up-to-date insight into the latest techniques in racing. Professional driver and driving coach Ross Bentley, reveals what it takes to be fast and win races at the highest levels. Chock full of diagrams and...
Inner Speed Secrets: Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance
Mental Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Maximize your driving ability with tips from the experts! Based on performance seminars conducted by the authors for race car drivers, this informative guide helps you consistently perform at your highest level. Chapters discuss: The Driver - The Ultimate Management System; Inner Race Driving; Skills and Techniques; and Strategies.
Speed Secrets 6: The Perfect Driver
The Perfect Driver
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
With racing, as with almost any pursuit, being the best entails having a clear idea of what the best is--having a mental model that instructs and motivates and inspires. That's where Speed Secrets 6 comes in. Drawing on his extensive experience as a competitive driver and coach, author Ross Bentley...
McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon
The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood Icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
No other Hollywood star has been so closely linked with cars and bikes, from the 1968 Ford Mustang GT Fastback he drove in Bullitt (in the greatest car chase of all time) to the Triumph motorcycle of The Great Escape. McQueen's Machines gives readers a close-up look at the cars and motorcycles McQueen...
The Harley in the Barn
More Great Tales of Motorcycles Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Driving down a country road, a flash of chrome catches your eye as you pass an old farmstead. Next time you roll by, you slow down and focus on a shed behind the house. Could that be? Good lord, it is! Hard on the brakes, quick reverse, and pull in the drive. Yep, it’s a vintage Triumph Bonneville...