The perfect race driver doesn't exist. Here's the catch, though: Great drivers *try* to be perfect.
How? We'll tell you! In the form of a spicy excerpt from “Ultimate Speed Secrets," the best-selling performance book by INTC co-host Ross Bentley!
(Bonus: Saucy stories from Ross's coaching past!)
(Disclaimer: Said excerpt and stories may be neither spicy nor saucy!)
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. We call this format “INTC BOOK CLUB.” Think of it as a strange but unexpectedly entertaining audiobook that you bought by accident at a random truck stop long before podcasts existed, except there are no week-old hot dogs under a radioactive heat lamp, the CB radios are definitely not on sale, good buddy, and you can’t take a number to reserve a shower that smells like beans and pickled gym shorts.
(Note: We're not saying you need a shower. Travel hygiene is a personal choice, and you've always smelled great anyway! We support you, listener, whatever your soap-adjacent habits!)
This episode was produced by Mike Perlman and Sam Smith.
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
It’s Not the Car is a podcast about people and speed. We tell racing stories and leave out the boring parts.
Ross Bentley is a former IndyCar driver, a bestselling author, and a world-renowned performance coach. Jeff Braun is a champion race engineer. Sam Smith is an award-winning writer and a former executive editor of Road & Track magazine.
We don’t love racing for the nuts and bolts—we love it for what it asks of the meatbag at the wheel.
New episodes every Tuesday.
