Drive (The Driver Series Book 1)

I've been doing a mix of HDPE, instructing, karting and iRacing sim racing for a while now and have read a number of books on the subject. This is the first in a series of 3 books and I have to say is really excellent in cutting through some of the black magic and getting right to the heart of what is needed to optimize the line through a corner.

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Very little fat, just the way I like it. Instead, reduced lap time is achieved by always using the maximum force the tires are capable of generating in order to move the car in the desired direction, which generally means slowing the car during corner entry and accelerating the car down the track during corner exit. This is something you need to both visually see through spatial awareness and also feel kinesthetically - the 'Universal Cue'. The book of course expounds on these points in considerable detail.

Overall, this is an outstanding and important book which takes a sophisticated physics-based approach to optimizing driving. I drove HPDE and time trials for 10 years and 10, track miles comparing data logs and videos to faster drivers looking for improvements. By the last paragraph of the first section of this book when I read "you will be able to watch their laps and identify where they are losing time" I was hooked. By explaining the goal rather than the "how," I was able to visualize my best course of action from any place on the track.

I saw immediate improvement with my lap times. Most importantly, I enjoy driving more and my study time is much more focused. I landed on the Amazon page for this book from one of the suggested items that was below another book I was looking at can't remember which one and the reviews were very compelling so I decided to take a chance since it was relatively inexpensive.

I really enjoyed the book and felt like I got a lot out of it. On a recent track day at Roebling Road Raceway I was able to use the techniques in this book and book 3 that deals with more complex corners like double apexes to shave some time off in turns 4 and 5. I also attended a Ron Zitza track walk that same weekend and, in two corners especially the line he recommended for more advanced drivers the "Hurley" line through 4 was a match to the guidance in this book and in book 3.

In turn 5 the guidance from both the book and the track walk had me driving a decreasing radius as I went through the turn, setting it up so that I could go full throttle by the apex. Comparing my fastest laps using that approach with my fastest laps using the guidance from the book, I am.

So far applying the principles in this book and book 3 Perfect Corner 2 have been working out for me and I will continue to apply the ideas and guidance and see where it takes me. Great book, I'm not a fan of the astronaut example but it thas the job. I was a decent driver before reading this book but I was always struggle to find the best line and was asking or looking to other drivers to find the best lines at the track.

But after this very simple book I don't, and I know for sure that what I'm doing or trying to is the right way to get the lap times, is a must for everydriver that want to go fast. I have put it to practice and shave some time of my lap times right away! I'm primarily a sim racer, but I have done some track days as well in my s I'd really like to start racing for real some day, but not sure that's ever going to be in my budget and I never really had the money to hire a driving coach. I heard about this book on Reddit when they were giving it away for free, but I prefer hard copies so got the paperback version to keep on my shelf.

I haven't read every driving book out there, but I definitely have all the major ones like Speed Secrets, Going Faster, and the older Carroll Smith books. To my fellow driving knowledge seekers out there, this book blows them out of the water and is my new holy grail of racing books. I got some good stuff from reading those older books, but always had the feeling that there was something missing. Like the writers had a general idea of how to drive, but not a total understanding.

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This book is showing me exactly what to do, and not just what, but why. It's not just some person telling me what to do and expecting me to take their word for it. This book explains the real science behind the racing line and how things like checking my speed at corner exit to see how I did doesn't work.

I love how they used an astronaut with a fire extinguisher as an example and feel like that part helped me to really "get it". I've already seen a big improvement in things like my trail braking and times but the nicest part is I'm not always having to just try different cornering lines or trying to copy the weekly hotlaps that are posted. I could never really figure out the hairpin at suzuka in iRacing and I've already gotten faster in that section by almost a quarter of a second and can almost do it as quick as the really fast guys.

Just like they said I really can start to see where even those guys are making mistakes. I can't wait till the next books come out so I can start learning about bus stops and compromise corners. See all 40 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.

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Turning a "run-of-the-mill" Los Angeles auto body shop into a grandiose dealership was one of the most challenging tasks. Painting the walls an electric blue color, she filled the showroom with vintage cars. While Drive is set in the present day, it has a s atmosphere, underlined by the vehicles, music, and clothes, and by the architecture.

The parts of the city seen in the Valley and near downtown Los Angeles are cheap stucco and mirrored glass; the film excludes buildings constructed more recently. As the Los Angeles Times pointed out, whenever gleaming buildings are shown, it is because they are being seen from a distance. Refn shot those scenes from a helicopter at night in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles. Refn chose Johnny Jewel of Desire and the Chromatics to score the film. He wanted electronic music and to have it be abstract, on occasion, so viewers can see things from the Driver's perspective.

During Drive ' s climax, " A Real Hero "'s keynote melody, about becoming "a real human being, and a real hero", refrains because that is when the Driver displays both those characteristics. He definitely got the nuance of the song, and understood what it was supposed to mean, and he wanted to give that emotion to the viewer, that same feeling. Thinking of music in terms of basic elements, Jewel would tell the director that for certain scenes, it should not have bass since, as an earth tone, it is usually used for a more emotional or ominous part.

Jewel thought the music should be in the upper register and relaxing for the "dreamlike" scene. To help himself with the music composition process, and to conjure up melodies, the producer would highlight many phrases from the novel, then print those words in large font, and hung them on his walls or draw pictures during viewings of Drive. Although Jewel's music was used in the score, at the last minute the studio hired composer Cliff Martinez to imitate the style and feel of Jewel's bands Chromatics and Glass Candy.

Editor Mat Newman suggested Drive ' s opening credits song: Jewel reworked his unused soundtrack for the film into Themes for an Imaginary Film , the debut album by his side-project Symmetry. A re-scored soundtrack for the film was produced for the BBC by Zane Lowe for its television broadcast in October Prior to beginning principal photography , Refn went to the Cannes Film Festival to sell the rights to Drive and released promotional posters for the film.

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The film premiered on May 20, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Turns out what we really wanted all along was a scene in which a man gets his head stomped in a lift. They welcome it in like a long-lost relation. The film was greeted with hoots and howls of joy from the media, with viewers cheering on some of the scenes featuring extreme violence.

It was among more than feature films, short projects, and music videos , from more than 30 countries, to be shown during the festival. The site's critical consensus states, "With its hyper-stylized blend of violence, music, and striking imagery, Drive represents a fully realized vision of arthouse action.

It was one of the highest-ranked, and most-featured, films on critics' year-end top 10 lists. It ranked as fourth-best film of the year, behind The Tree of Life , The Artist , and Melancholia on Metacritic's tally of top 10 lists. The writers for the film magazine Empire listed Drive as their number one film of Brooks' performance, veined with dark humor and chilling menace watch him with a blade , deserves to have Oscar calling. Movieline ' s Stephanie Zacharek complimented the film's action and wrote that it "defies all the current trends in mainstream action filmmaking. The driving sequences are shot and edited with a surgeon's clarity and precision.

Refn doesn't chop up the action to fool us into thinking it's more exciting than it is. Her score for the film is 9. In praising the film, he wrote, "Here is a movie with respect for writing, acting, and craft. It has respect for knowledgeable moviegoers. Anthony Lane wrote in The New Yorker that Drive ' s violence was far too graphic, and this ultimately was a detriment to the film. Referring to the violence, he said, "In grabbing our attention, he diverts it from what matters.

The horror lingers and seeps; the feelings are sponged away. Phillips thought the film relied too much on "stylistic preening" and did not have enough substance. Andrew O'Hehir of Salon described Drive as a "classic Los Angeles heist-gone-wrong story," that "isn't trying to outdo Bullitt or get the next assignment in The Fast and the Furious franchise ". Quentin Tarantino 's Pulp Fiction , and [with] angst-laden love scenes that would not be out of place in a Scandinavian drama". Ballard , and Mike Davis. Drive has been described as a tough, hard-edged, neo-noir , art house feature, [8] extremely violent and very stylish, with European art and grindhouse influences.

Refn's inspiration for Drive came partly from reading Grimms' Fairy Tales , and his goal was to make "a fairy tale that takes Los Angeles as the background," [8] with The Driver as the hero. To play with the common theme of fairy tales, The Driver protects what is good while at the same time killing degenerate people in violent ways. Jean-Pierre Melville 's crime productions influenced the cinematography. The Driver has been compared to the Man With No Name , a character Clint Eastwood portrayed in the Sergio Leone western , because he almost never speaks, communicating mostly non-verbally.

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Refn chose to give The Driver very little dialogue and have him drive around listening to synth-pop music, taking control when it counts. It was one of the most-nominated films by critics' groups in James Verniere of the Boston Herald graded it an A , stating, "The cool crowd isn't just watching Drive ; they're listening to it, too The Drive soundtrack is such an integral part of the experience of the film, once you see it, you can't imagine the film without it. She stated the album, beginning with non-Martinez songs instead of mixing it up for a more enjoyable listening experience, cost it a star.

That same month, Johnny Jewel, College, Electric Youth, and Cliff Martinez discussed the impact of the soundtrack and film on their lives and contemporary music culture.

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Jewel told Vehlinggo that Drive ' s "blend of sonic and visual nostalgia with a contemporary spin is always deadly. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Drive Theatrical release poster. I was very taken with this little crime story that James Sallis wrote. I felt that the way the world was presented in the book demanded that its true grit be retained in the script. The grit comes from seeing the world from the point of view of the driver in the car. It's those elements that I felt were critical to retain to make this film a very unique cinematic experience.

It's more about the questionable choices that drive people — and, ultimately, the ones that drive them away. List of accolades received by Drive film.



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