Bob Bondurant on Police and Pursuit Driving (Bob Bondurant On)

The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving near Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the most-respected driving schools in the world and the site of a highly regarded police driving course that is attended by more than 2,000 law enforcement officers each year. (Those who can't attend, incessantly lobby their superiors for the opportunity.) Bondurant and veteran officer and law enforcement driving instructor Ed Sanow illustrate and explain all elements of police and pursuit driving -- the terminology, the car, the road, safety, and Bondurant's methods for controlling weight transfer, following lines through corners, tail-braking, and more. Bondurant is a former F1 driver whose Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving is now in its fourth edition. Ed Sanow is a driving instructor with the Benton County (Indiana) Sheriff's Office and the author of five MBI titles. Content: The basics of driving -- The basics of handling -- The right mental attitude -- Braking techiniques: with ABS and without -- Skid control --skid avoidance -- Emergency evasive maneuvers -- Low and high speed cornering -- Enforcement driving -- Pursuit driving and decisions -- Rolling and stationary roadblocks -- Take outs -- Defeating the roadblock -- Adverse driving conditions -- In-service training -- APPENDIX A: The nine Ts of pursuit driving -- APPENDIX B: About the authors.

Who better to write a book on performance driving than Bob Bondurant? Bob knows fast driving - and he knows how to teach it! Here Bob draws from his highly-regarded law enforcement course on police pursuit and counterterrorist interception driving to fill you in on the pursuit techniques used by today's police officers. Corporal Edwin Sanow illustrates several of Bondurant's techniques with firsthand accounts of actual police pursuit situations.

All drivers, police officers included, have been taught to drive a car, but few drivers have had the opportunity to properly learn the true basics of driving.