MORE THAN SPEED: THE SKILLS THAT WIN & HOW TO EXECUTE WHEN IT MATTERS

Most motorsports books teach technique.More Than Speed teaches execution.Across autocross, HPDE, time trials, and multi-discipline competition, drivers often plateau not because they lack knowledge, but because they cannot reliably access what they already know under pressure. Vision collapses inward. Inputs rush. Rhythm breaks. The car arrives faster than the nervous system can organize the moment.More Than Speed introduces a different framework:Performance = Capability × AvailabilityCapability is the skill you possess. Technique. Pattern recognition. The thousands of small corrections that become instinct.Availability is whether you can still reach those skills when speed, pressure, fatigue, and cognitive load begin consuming the system.You do not lose skill under pressure. You lose access to it.Research across competitive events suggests that roughly 70% of the gap between national champions and mid-pack drivers comes not from capability, but from execution under load. More Than Speed is built to address that gap directly.Drawing from more than forty years of competitive motorsport experience, Brad Larsen combines technical driving instruction with performance systems drawn from the study of how skilled operators maintain execution under extreme load.Through five progressive “Heats,” the book develops:Vision and perception under loadVehicle communication and weight transferSmoothness, timing, and grip managementCompetition psychology and pressure executionIn-run reset and real-time recoveryData interpretation and self-coaching systemsFatigue management across multi-run and multi-discipline eventsMore Than Speed is not an encyclopedia of racecraft. It is a system for understanding why drivers succeed, why they plateau, and how to consistently access their best performance when it counts.For drivers who want more than tips, More Than Speed provides a framework that scales from first autocross to national-level competition. Read more