How to drive real world instruction and advice from Hollywood's top driver
"This book is the ultimate guide to being the best -- and safest -- driver possible. Hollywood stunt driver and former Top Gear star Ben Collins shares expert skills and wisdom from his twenty-year career as one fo the best drivers in the world -- from La Mans Series racing and NASCAR to piloting th...
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Chronicle Books,
[2016]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a How to drive : |b real world instruction and advice from Hollywood's top driver / |c Ben Collins. |
| 264 | 1 | |a San Francisco : |b Chronicle Books, |c [2016] | |
| 300 | |a 279 pages : |b illustrations (chiefly color) ; |c 26 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: -- How to drive? -- A very short history of driving -- Roads aren't straightforward? -- Burning rubber? -- Road rage? -- The driving test? -- King of the road? -- The basics -- Are you sitting comfortably? -- The beast? -- Shifting gears? -- Steering? -- Braking? -- Curves: the art of turning a corner? -- The open road -- Avoiding accidents ? -- Intersections? -- Rural roads? -- Passing? -- Multilane highways? -- Free your mind (and the rest will follow)? -- Skidding -- The limits of grip? -- Driving in wet weather? -- Winter driving? -- Worst-case scenarios? -- Stunt driving? -- Epilogue: -- Drifting through London?. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a "This book is the ultimate guide to being the best -- and safest -- driver possible. Hollywood stunt driver and former Top Gear star Ben Collins shares expert skills and wisdom from his twenty-year career as one fo the best drivers in the world -- from La Mans Series racing and NASCAR to piloting the Batmobile and dodging bullets with James Bond. Whether you've been behind the wheel for thirty years or you just received your first license, this is the stuff your instructor overlooked, your parents forgot, and your friends pretend to know . . . but don't."--Back cover. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Automobile driving. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Automobile driver education. | |
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