Ross Bentley has written the popular Speed Secrets series and has been coaching drivers 150 days a year for decades. He spoke to us about his driving and coaching career and offers tips for driver improvement. Read our interview with Ross here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
With all of their racing experience, odds are that you can depend on Saleen to build you a car that is highly capable and well balanced for track day and street use. Read our latest article here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
“I’m not the fastest driver out there, but I’m good at communicating, good at breaking things down, tackling challenges from different angles, and—I hope—reading students for how much they can absorb in any given session or day.” Read our latest article about Ingrid Steffensen, track day coach and contributor to Ross Bentley’s Speed Secrets Weekly and Roundel Magazine. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
As you know, we’ve been alerting you to new content on Auto TrackDay Monthly. If you’ve been checking out our magazine, we would appreciate you showing us your support by subscribing to our email list HERE. In this way we can build our readership and continue to bring you the only magazine dedicated to the track day enthusiast. Check out our latest article New Developments with Video and Data Logging Smart Phone App, Track Attack.
We've published our newest article. Read about the Shelby American Mustang GT/SC. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
Do you all remember the article we ran on track designer Alan Wilson back in March? Fascinating! Well, he's written a thriller about what might happen if hackers were able to compromise Formula 1 cars' telemetry during a race. Click below to read our review of Alan Wilson's novel Zapped and what Wilson himself has to say about this controversy. And if you haven't already, scroll down our homepage to read our prior interview with the great track designer. Just look for the yellow Porsche. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
We are very excited that accomplished and much admired track day coach Peter Krause granted us an interview! Click below to read the article and, if you haven't already, we request that you show your support of our magazine by subscribing to our email list by clicking here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - Contact Us For the Peter Krause article click here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
"The team had to re-think how to take advantage of the power by optimizing the axle ratio and transmission gearing. After looking at minimizing the number of shifts at some of our favorite tracks, the team selected a combination that would allow our customers to get out of the hole without breaking the tires loose and continue on down the track, taking full advantage of all 662HP." Read our interview with the Project Manager for the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Also, we have partnered with Track HQ and RacingJunk.com to bring you an enhanced track day oriented forum experience and access to track car classifieds. Finally, go to our downloads tab to get your how to manuals and track driver log. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine - A Track Days Magazine
"Looking at parameters like percentage full throttle over a lap, throttle speed, brake aggression and coast time are all some of the more advanced measures I use to help even experienced drivers break through plateaus that invariably affect us all." As promised, we've published part II of our interview with driving coach Peter Krause, which focuses on driving techniques. Click below to read the article. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
Ingrid Steffensen’s book Fast Girl, although about track days, getting to track days, being at tracks, eating at tracks....well basically living the track day world, is really also about life. Check out our latest article - our review of Fast Girl, Ingrid Steffensen's account of her personal journey from college professor to track warrior. Ingrid is a track day driver, instructor for the BMW CCA and a contributor to Ross Bentley’s Speed Secrets Weekly. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
How would you like to own an F-150 or SVT Raptor used in the Baseball Hall of Fame parade? Such greats as Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax and Cal Ripken, Jr. rode in the backs of 25 F-150s supplied by the Ford Motor Company. They happen to make good tow vehicles too. Read our latest article: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the Ford Motor Company Join Forces Around a Parade of F-150s At autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine Also, please support us by taking a brief survey. Your information will remain private and confidential. Just click the link and thank you! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPMBK5X
Ross Bentley has been very generous with his time and support. He has participated in an interview for two articles and is contributing to our series on driving techniques. Ross has been getting the word out about our magazine and our content and we wanted to get the word out about his upcoming webinar, Inner Speed Secrets. This is a new format for him and it is launching next week on the 14th. The deadline to register is on October 10, 2014, this Friday. We feel this will be a real opportunity for our readers to improve their driving skills and we urge you to sign up. We will be in on the call ourselves! Read our article about Inner Speed Secrets at: autotrackdaymonthly.com - TrackCar Tech Here is what Ross has to say about the webinar: "The most effective training I've ever done for performance and race drivers is my Inner Speed Secrets program. But previously, I've only delivered it in person which made it unavailable to many drivers. So now I'm doing a webinar version of it. Drivers know the mental game is critical, and yet they rarely have an opportunity to develop that part of their driving performance. Now they do. I'll be doing an Inner Speed Secrets webinar spread over 4 evenings, October 14, 15, 21 and 22, from 8:30-10:00pm Eastern/5:30-7:00pm Pacific - a total of 6 hours of training. Registration is limited - and closes on October 10th. Go to Inner Speed Secrets right now to reserve your spot. It's available at the discounted price of $99 right now - if you miss it, you'll get left behind.”
Peter Krause is one of the preeminent driving coaches in the world of track days and motorsports. He was kind enough to allow us to reprint his turn-by-turn analysis of his home track, Virginia International Raceway. Read Krause's description of a hot lap at Virginia International Raceway (VIR): autotrackdaymonthly.com - Featured Tracks Want to help us out? Please take our survey by clicking this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPMBK5X Don't forget to get your free downloads. We have track day manuals for beginners and intermediates as well as a track drivers log: Downloads Thanks and enjoy!
Threshold Braking & Beyond By Jerry Austin, Ross Bentley, Satch Carlson, Peter Krause, Burt Levy, Chris Sneed and Ingrid Steffensen We know you are hungry for technique related articles. So periodically, we will be surveying our panel of subject matter experts and combine their input into one single article covering a specific driving technique from multiple perspectives. We are very excited to share with you our assembled experts for this first go-around: Jerry Austin of Austin Motorsports, specializing in data analysis and data logging equipment; Ross Bentley of Speed Secrets and driving coach; Satch Carlson, Editor, Roundel Magazine; Peter Krause of Peter Krause and Associates and driving coach; Burt Levy, vintage racer, coach, columnist and novelist of many books such as his acclaimed The Last Open Road; Chris Sneed, owner of Sneed’s Speed Shop, instructor for PCA, BMW CCA and NASA, and professional racer in the Pirelli World Challenge series; and Ingrid Steffensen, BMW CCA instructor, professor, author and contributor to Bentley's Speed Secrets. autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine
We interview the people who brought you the BFGoodrich g-Force Rival. Read our review of this street legal track day tire here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - TrackCar Tech Also, take a look at reader submission Advanced Driver Tuning by Greg Haas of Haas Mobility: autotrackdaymonthly.com - TrackDrivers Take our survey by clicking here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPMBK5X Finally, get your free downloads here: Downloads Thank you!
Read our latest article: An Interview with Watkins Glen International Track President Michael Printup. "It’s going to cost anywhere from $9 to $15 million to repave the racetrack and we’re doing our due diligence now. The engineers are looking at it and we hope the Board will approve it." autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine You can follow new content on our Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/trackdaymonthly
Our latest article: Palm Beach International Raceway & The Palm Beach Driving Club We met with Aidy Alonzo, V.P. of Marketing and Communications at Palm Beach International Raceway, and Jackie Rea, Assistant Manager of the Palm Beach Driver’s Club to talk about new developments at PBIR’s motorsports complex in South Florida. “When Corvette launched the C7 last year, they brought about 40 C7s in every color. You looked around out there and it was like looking at Skittles. It was like a rainbow! It was beautiful. No one had seen that many C7s in one place at the same time." autotrackdaymonthly.com - A Track Days Magazine Also, don't forget to get your free downloads of track day manuals and a driver's log here: Downloads
"At one stage I was one of 36 drivers in the world with a Formula One Superlicense! I have driven so many fantastic race cars Рmost drivers just dream of." In this issue, we review Driven by Desire: The Desir̩ Wilson Story, a book about one of the great race car drivers of a past generation, written by her husband Alan Wilson. autotrackdaymonthly.com - TrackDrivers We want to hear from you. Take our survey by clicking here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPMBK5X
Dev Clough is the Head Coach for Hooked On Driving. He was kind enough to sit down with us for an interview. Dev had some interesting things to say about coaching, how to get started and how to continue to learn and improve. He also had some useful insights on the current crop of performance cars suitable for track day driving and which car modifications to focus on. Read the article here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - TrackDrivers We want to hear from you. Take our survey by clicking this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XPMBK5X Thanks and enjoy!
"A common scenario that enthusiasts have encountered over the years was that if you did attend some of these other track events, the leadership would engage in babysitting and you would get a lot of negative direction; or warning drivers about the consequences of bad behavior or threatening to throw you out of the event if you did something wrong. That early environment was rather like elementary school teachers talking to kids." Read more of what Mark Hicks of Chin Motorsports has to say about track day providers here: autotrackdaymonthly.com - YourTrack Don't forget to get your track day manuals and log book: Downloads