DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Ross Bentley's Speed Secrets

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Ross Bentley's Speed Secrets

Speed Secrets: Coasting Isn’t Always a Bad Thing

To hesitate, or not to hesitate?

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Ross Bentley
Jun 01, 2025
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I once said, “You should either be on the throttle or on the brakes.” Or something like that (it was in a book I wrote a long time ago, and I often forget what I’ve written!). It was meant as a target or guideline to get you thinking about not (as my friend Peter Krause likes to say) lollygagging along. Kinda… “no coasting.”

While I prefer the term “hesi…

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