Sometimes Its Hard To See The Wood For The Trees!

What an honour it has been to interview such high-level guests on your behalf. To listen to these titans of our sport talk about their work. To hear them give advice on how you can go racing in a better way.

It soon became clear that much of their advice was common. Similar themes, similar ideas and similar approaches seemed to be interlaced in everything they said.

The problem with a podcast is that this transformational knowledge is buried deep in the hours (and hours!) of shows.

A podcast is very difficult for you to dip in and out of.

Many of the best comments are not obviously part of the conversation at that moment. A throwaway line at the end of a story. A quick, “And of course …” at the end of a sentence.

How Can You Put This Great Knowledge Into Action?

You want to be able to take advantage of this wisdom. To try what the guests are suggesting. Put into practise the tips and advice being put forward. To increase your enjoyment, fun and your success in motorsport.

Because increasing your chances of success is what all this is about – it is why the guests came on the show in the first place! 😊

When listening to the shows you might hear something that resonates. You will likely smile, nod and think “Yeah I might try that!”

But then the conversation moves on. The next topic comes up. The next great tip given. Another piece of amazing advice gets imparted. Then we are on to the next show. The next guest. The next expert looking to share their experiences to help you succeed.

How can you possibly remember everything the guests have to say?

Below is a word cloud of the 180,000+ words my guests said on these 20 shows (I know! 😊)

There are over 20 hours of conversations for you to listen too. Several hundred tips and suggestions for you to think about and consider.

It is easy to become overwhelmed with so much great stuff!

Getting More Value From These Exclusive Interviews

Yes you can take notes (I suggest it every time!). Yes you can listen to the shows more than once (and many I know do!) But more than likely – for all your good intentions – too many of your “Aha!” moments, will get lost or forgotten.

And that’s a shame.

That’s a shame because these guests are giving you really (really!) good advice!

And the advice should be good because they are the best in the world at what they do!

In fact, if you were able to get a 1-2-1 audience with anyone of them, then that would easily cost you thousands (and thousands!) per day.

This issue got me thinking:

• “How can I help you get more value from these shows?”
• “What can I do to make sure that these shows become more than just an entertaining conversation?“
• “How can I use my unique experience to summarise all the best bits for you?” 🤷‍♂️

Birth Of The Motorsports Playbook.

I challenge every guest at the beginning to give us one or two takeaways. Tips that you can apply directly back in your racing.

It is these nuggets, these takeaways, these pearls of wisdom that I’ve tried to accumulate for you.

To distill, organise and combine them into the lessons covered in The Motorsports Playbook. 

Split into three sections, the lessons introduce you to how motorsports professionals approach:

1. Driving Fast,
2. Coaching &
3. Race Car Engineering. 

There is some overlap. Some of the conversations veer from one topic to another. Sometimes the guests even seem to be talking to each other!

What I’ve tried to do is organise common threads of thinking into lessons with a single message.

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Short, Sharp And Focused – On Helping You Improve!

All the lessons are short.

The idea is that you can dip in and out whenever you have a chance. Grabbing a coffee, having a quick lunch break or even between your track sessions. 

These lessons give you the ability to quickly refresh your mind. To reflect, to consider and to think “Yeah, I agree with that.” Or maybe “No, I don’t agree with that.”

The important thing is that the lessons get you thinking. Learning. Improving.

The Motorsports Playbook gives you quality reference material.

Material from which you can be more confident to: adopt a new approach, a new way of thinking and a new way to get more success from your time on track. 

For Example …

If you’ve been wondering:

• How to better manage your nerves?
• How the best drivers brake?
• What is the best way to run a test day?
• How you should setup your race car for the wet?
• What dampers really do (and why dampers are so important)?
• How you can be a great driver coach?
• What the club racer can learn from how an Formula 1 team operates … then all of this is covered and more …

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More Questions You Can Get Answers On:

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The Motorsports Playbook

It’s been a real pleasure not only do the shows but to put The Motorsports Playbook together. The amount of information and knowledge that my guests have shared with you is amazing. Hopefully, I’ve done it justice but I’ll let you be the judge of that!

For less than you’d spend on 1 day of fuel, you get access to structured knowledge from some of the best motorsports professionals in the world. Structured insights that acquired any other way would cost you $$$ THOUSANDS!!

The lessons are arranged into 3 sections to help you begin to think like someone who has driven, coached or engineered at the highest levels in motorsports.

The lessons might be summaries but there is so much battle-hardened knowledge included. I guarantee you will find something new each time you dip back in.

Unlike your tank of fuel these insights will never run out. My hope is that The Motorsports Playbook becomes a lasting tool that you keep coming back to again and again!

Curated wisdom from the YDD podcast

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More Than A Book – 3x Bonuses Too!

The Motorsports Playbook is more than just a book. You have two options; the book or the excellent value “Premium Pack.”

Here is what the bonuses include:

BONUS 1
42 Lesson Video Course (Worth £59.99)

Audiograms give you an even better way to understand what the guests had to say. Every lesson has been transcribed so you can hear what the guests actually said. Below is a sample. Watch it together with the free book sample above if you like.

Note: You may notice that the transcriptions in the videos are not always perfect. In the book they are correct.

There are 42 audiograms like the one above. They perfectly accompany the book and give you another format to get more value from the lessons. Each video also includes the key takeaways for that lesson. For a full list of all the lesson titles (inc video lengths) see the table of contents section. Here are some more audiogram sample screen shots. The audiograms are great!

BONUS 2:
3x Extra Lessons On Sponsorship

Included in the video course above are THREE bonus lessons on Sponsorship. The first gives you perspective on what is involved. It also asks whether raising money is for you, given track driving is likely to be your relaxation not another job. Should you decide that it would be rather good if someone else paid for you passion 😉, then the other two lessons will help. They give you inspiration, ideas and actionable methods. Simple suggestions you can use to increase your chances of raising money for your motorsports.

Sponsorship gives you everything you want, more testing, a new helmet, a better car – the lot. If you get one sponsor from these lessons then they will have more than paid for themselves – and then some $$$!

BONUS 3:
The 94 Key Takeaways As Infographics (Worth £19.99)

At the end of each lesson in The Motorsports Playbook, I summarise my Key Takeaways for you. I have pulled all of the Key Takeaways together – a summary of the summaries if you like!

Presented in 3x beautiful infographics they provide a complete overview of each section on Driving Fast, Coaching and Race Car Engineering. They give you a quick reference menu of solutions – 94 in total – that you can start to apply to your racing today!

Below left you can see how the takeaways are presented in the book. Below right you can see the infographics (slightly cropped widthwise 😉)

Once you have read the book, these are the crib sheets you will keep coming back to again and again. Mobile, Kindle & Tablet friendly – you also get them in two formats – PDF and ePub:

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Got more questions? Maybe this short FAQ section will help:

Who Were The Guests?

Andrew Cohen-Wray F1 mental perf coach & racer – McLaren

Ross Bentley:   Ex-Indycar racer & coach – Speed Secrets

Andrew Rains:   Ex-pro driver & business owner – Apex Pro

James Williams:   Mercedes F1 transmission engineer & racer

Damian Harty   Ex-WRC vehicle dynamics eng – Prodrive

Scott Mansell:  Ex-F1 driver & driver coach – Driver61

John Kirkpatrick   Ex-pro driver & coach – ARDS President

James Colborn:   AiM data guru & club racer

Perry McCarthy:   Ex-F1 driver & The Stig from Top Gear

Matt Neal:   Pro driver & 3x BTCC touring car champion

Peter Krause:   Data coach & historic racer

Danny Nowlan:  Vehicle dynamics eng & owner –ChassisSim

Aris Vasilakos:  Sim racing & Head of R&D – Assetto Corsa

Rob Wilson: Ex-pro driver & coach of 75+ F1 drivers …

Dave Devine:   Aston Martin F1 suspension eng & racer

Scott Gardner:   Olympic head coach & cycling pro –TeamGB

Brian Sims:   Ex-pro & Benetton F1 sponsorship guru

Jeff Braun:   Pro race engineer & coffee business owner!

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About The Author

 Hi 👋, I’m Samir Abid. I’m an engineer from Warwick, UK. 

For the first 10 years of my career I worked in vehicle dynamics. I developed suspension systems for road and racing cars including Aston Martins, Jaguars and a – Daytona 500 winning – Daytona Prototype.

For the last 10 years I’ve run a pro sports engineering consultancy. My customers have won 40+ Olympic Gold medals and had 1 world first – I defined the optimum racing line for Eliud Kipchoge run on when he broke the 2 hour marathon in Vienna 2019.

Since 2010 I have also been an Associate Fellow at Warwick Business School. Ranked 1st in the world by the Financial Times (2020), I supervise Distance Learning MBA students to write their final dissertations. I’ve used many of the social science research methods I teach to distill the lessons found in The Motorsports Playbook.

As well as being a Chartered Professional Engineer, I also race at club level. I have seen first-hand peoples frustrations and glum faces. I setup Your Data Driven in order to help my fellow enthusiasts to get more fun, enjoyment and success on track. Hopefully one of those enthusiasts will soon be you.

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