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How To Drive: The Ultimate Guide, from the Man Who Was the Stig by Ben Collins (Hardcover, 2014)

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Welcome to the next chapter of your driving education. Former Top Gear Stig Ben Collins shares expert skills and wisdom refined over a twenty-year career as one of the best drivers in the world - from Le Mans Series racing to NASCAR, piloting the Batmobile and dodging bullets with James Bond. Ben's philosophy of anticipation, smoothness and speed, honed over thousands of hours of elite-level performance, is really about economy of motion - which also gives you greater control, safety and fuel efficiency. This book is about driving better, not faster. Whether you've been behind the wheel for the best part of thirty years or you bought your first L-plate ten seconds ago, this is the stuff your instructor missed, your dad forgot and your mates pretend to know ...but don't.

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Driving is the most dangerous thing each of us does on a daily basis - and yet the average learner receives just eighteen hours' training - less than a Starbucks barista. In this inspirational, instructive, highly entertaining book, Ben Collins uses his super-charged experience of racing, stunt-work and cutting-edge scientific knowledge to tell you all of the things you didn't learn on your test - and in the process will make your driving safer, more economical and a lot more enjoyable. The skills described here, from skid control to gear changes that are as smooth as a cashmere codpiece, have been honed on racing tracks by the greatest drivers in the world. This is the stuff your instructor missed, your dad forgot and your mates pretend to know . . . but don't. Packed with illustrations, gobsmacking driving anecdotes, humour and wisdom, this is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to be better at something they do every day of their life. The world population of motor vehicles exceeded a billion a couple of years ago. Let's make sure their owners understand how to use them.

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Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781447272830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209297142

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Book Title
How to Drive: the Ultimate Guide, from the Man Who Was the Stig
Author
Ben Collins
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Motor Vehicles, Opinion of the People
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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254mm
Item Width
197mm
Item Weight
1068g

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Ben Collins
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by robi399703 Sep, 2018
How to drive, a compelling read indeed!
Surprisingly comprehensive. So much I did not know: the Stig has a mother and father! Some people said he emerged suited and with helmet from the plasma of a lightning strike to Coniston Water. Reading this is entertaining, for sure, but will not make you a great driver. Having the humility to accept there is always more to learn will get you close. Close to accepting other drivers may better or worse, slower or faster and more patient or really be on their way to a birth or death. It will not make you capable of a cheery wave as thanks, an apology or a you first. This book shows that a lifetime of work at the wheel of so many different vehicles has made Ben one of the most accomplished drivers out there. Even so, he still acknowledges the skill others have: a smooth driving chauffeur, police interceptors recording their every move on pursuit and risk averse stunt co-coordinators. As the man in a white helmet, the establishment doubtless ridicule his views on speed and the causes of accidents, but I'l wager they cannot drive as safely or as fast and live to write a book about it. A book so clearly describing how do so carefully.Read full review
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by frogertroy15 May, 2019
How to drive
Very good read.fast delivery very happy.👍
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by cruicd09 Jan, 2021
Excellent buy.
Excellent and informative read
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by jj_7204 Dec, 2019
Excellent guide
Excellent guide from mr.Stig himself, and much, much more.
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