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The Racing Driver: The Theory and Practice of Fast Driving
https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Driver-Theory-Practice-Driving/dp/0837602017/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Anybody who likes Jenks should read his book "The Racing Driver". You could go all hardcore and try to look for a older print version, but the charm about it, as Jenks himself writes in the preface of this "current" edition is that "none of the basic concepts would change. They had not changed in the first 50 years of motor racing, so why should they have changed in the second 50 years".
In Amazon you'll see they recommend buying this book with "The technique of motor racing" by Taruffi, and that recommendation is spot on; Racing driver is anecdotal, the technique is the scientific approach by a man who was a engineer before he was a winning race car driver.
Slightly OT but personally, I also wanted the book by Taruffi because apparently his winning one of the original editions of the Carrera Panamericana was a huge deal in Mexico. My Grandmother, the wife of a coal mine worker in a poor town in Mexico with little interest in cars would chastise fast drivers by saying "Who does he think he is, Taruffi?".