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Ross Bentley
Bentley with DirtFish Rally School in July 2011
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1956-11-04)November 4, 1956 (age 69) Vancouver,British Columbia
Rolex Sports Car Series
Years active	2000–2005, 2008–2010
Teams	Prototype Technology Group, Doran Racing, TRV Motorsport, Miracle Motorsports, Park Place Racing,Team Seattle, Essex Racing, The Racers Group, Farnbacher Loles Racing, Bullet Racing
Starts	20
Wins	1
Poles	2
Best finish	7th in 2003
Previous series
1999, 2002 1998–1999	American Le Mans Series United States Road Racing Championship
Championship titles
1998	United States Road Racing Championship GT3
Champ Car career
25 races run over 6 years
Years active	1990–1995
Team(s)	Spirit of Vancouver,Dale Coyne Racing
Best finish	30th (1992)
First race	1990Molson Indy Vancouver (Vancouver)
Last race	1994Slick 50 200 (Loudon)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0

Ross Bentley (born November 4, 1956) is a Canadian performance coach,racing driver,author, andspeaker. His performance coaching spans executive/business coaching to sports (athletes and teams in a variety of sports, with a specialty inmotorsports).

Born inVancouver,British Columbia, Bentley grew up in a racing household (father was a race mechanic, brother a mechanic and driver) and began driving himself at the age of four. He won 11 amateur racing championships during his early career.^[1]

In 1990, he debuted inCART withSpirit of Vancouver, a program that was formed to provide a car for a Vancouverite at the inauguralMolson Indy Vancouver.^[2] Bentley returned to the race the following year with Spirit of Vancouver; the effort received support such as pit crew and car fromDale Coyne Racing.^[3][4]

Bentley increased his CART schedule in 1992 with Coyne to include additional races outside ofVancouver, and would run seven races.^[5] That year's Vancouver event saw four Canadian drivers including Bentley, who finished 14th while managing a back injury.^[6][7] He continued racing for Coyne in 1993. During the buildup to theIndianapolis 500, Bentley was hospitalized and suffered burns on his hands and neck in a practice crash that caused a fuel regulator to split and pour methanol fuel into the cockpit.^[8] Bentley continued driving for Coyne in 1994, when the team brought onPro Football Hall of Fame running backWalter Payton as a co-owner, but Payton Coyne Racing struggled with performance due to outdated equipment.^[9]

A lack of sponsorship forced him out of IndyCar in 1995, prompting him to compete insports car racing. He competed in theWorld Sportscar Championship before returning to CART and Payton Coyne at Vancouver, but he failed to make the race after setting the slowest time in qualifying.^[10][11]

He continued his professional career inendurance racing. Bentley won the1998 United States Road Racing Championship in the GT3 class and the2003 24 Hours of Daytona in the SRPII Class.

Bentley worked as a driving instructor at his Performance Advanced Driving School and a columnist for racing clubs in the 1980s.^[1]

He currently owns a consulting business, Bentley Performance Systems, which focuses on improving the performance of individuals, teams and organizations through coaching, workshops and the development of custom-designed programs.

In 1998, Bentley published the first in a series of racing technique and strategy books calledSpeed Secrets. To date, he has nine books published under the Speed Secrets banner, includingInner Speed Secrets with Ronn Langford andThe Complete Driver with Bruce Cleland. He also co-wrote withBob Bondurant onRace Kart Driving.

In 2017, Bentley released a new title,Performance Pilot (written with professional aviator Phil Wilkes) detailing aviation-specific procedures, techniques, and strategies to help pilots improve their flying performance.

Bentley currently lives with his wife and daughter inIssaquah, Washington, US.^{[citation needed]}

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• Performance Pilot: Skills, techniques, and strategies to maximize your flying performance, Ross Bentley and Phil Wilkes (2017)
• The Lost Art of High-Performance Driving, Ross Bentley (2017)
• Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Racer's Bible, Ross Bentley (2011)
• Speed Secrets 7: Winning Autocross Techniques, Ross Bentley (2009)
• Speed Secrets 6: The Perfect Driver, Ross Bentley (2007)
• Speed Secrets 5: The Complete Driver, Ross Bentley and Bruce Cleland (2006)
• Speed Secrets 4: Engineering the Driver, Ross Bentley (2005)
• Speed Secrets 3: More Professional Driving Techniques, Ross Bentley (2003)
• Bob Bondurant on Race Kart Driving, Bob Bondurant and Ross Bentley (2002)
• Speed Secrets 2: Inner Speed Secrets: Strategies to Maximize Your Racing Performance, Ross Bentley and Ronn Langford (2000)
• Speed Secrets: Professional Race Driving Techniques, Ross Bentley (1998)

• List of Canadians in Champ Car

• Ross Bentley driver statistics at Racing-Reference

• 1956 births
• Living people
• Racing drivers from Vancouver
• Champ Car drivers
• Atlantic Championship drivers
• Trans-Am Series drivers
• 24 Hours of Daytona drivers
• American Le Mans Series drivers
• Dale Coyne Racing drivers
• Canadian racing drivers

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