Favorite Driver Development Resources?

What are your favorite "Fix the Driver" resources?

I'll start:

1) Going Faster (book) Carl Lopez and Danny Sullivan

2) Speed Secrets (youtube videos) by Ross Bently

Aside from real track time, I cant overstate the benefit of sim racing. I learned much of what i know on sims. When I hit my first track day, everything felt very natural, and I had already developed smoothness from all my time on the sim. This translated very well into real life.

This can also be a double edged sword tho. Some sims may have some weird physics at play, which may skew your perception of vehicle dynamics, and no matter what there is the human element where you might develop bad habits that will also translate to the real track.

Good timing for this thread - I'm looking to get into sim racing (probably iRacing?) soon for the practice advantage. I'm inclined to agree with Desmond regarding sim racing's practice advantages.

Besides the typical "learning the line" advantage that most people consider with sim racing, which itself is no small benefit, a good setup can help with braking/steering technique, racecraft, vision lines, and more.

I concur that Ross Bentley's books and videos are great. He's clearly knowledgeable, explains clearly, and goes over a lot of more subtle/advanced techniques.

I liked Speed Secrets (especially the instructors' shorts, yikes). The first time I did the Glen, it was really helpful to spend a few hours with Secrets of the Glen beforehand, so I could visualize the course. I never tried sim racing, but it seems like anything that would let me visualize the course I would be driving later, would help directly.

But I'm one of those guys who simply cannot be "told" how to drive a line. I always make my instructor show it to me. It's just the way my brain works. Nothing helps me even remotely like high-quality in-car instruction. The exception seems to be autocross, where somebody can tell me how to drive the line during the course walk-through, and that's all I need.

Car set-up is just the opposite. Most of what I get from instructors on car set up is just paddock legend, and it seems like every "rule" they lay down is being successfully ignored by somebody else in the paddock. Try Fred Phun's book and study it until it makes intuitive sense.