The Core Equation
Performance
=Capability × Availability
Capability
Everything you know how to do. Technique. Pattern recognition. Hard-won instinct.
Availability
Whether you can reach it in the moment. Under pressure. When it counts.
The Real Problem
You don't lose skill under pressure.
You lose access to it.
“The difference between national champions and midpack drivers isn't who knows more. It's who can use what they know.”
Most driving books address one side of the performance equation: capability. Line selection. Threshold braking. Weight transfer. That knowledge matters. But it only addresses half the problem.
More Than Speed builds both sides. The capability content develops technique, precision, and car control under load. The availability content builds the conditions that keep those skills accessible when pressure rises.
BOOK STRUCTURE
Five Heats.
One Complete System.
HEAT 1
The
Foundation
The framework, the equation, and why most drivers solve the wrong problem. Vision, inputs, physics, trust.
HEAT 2
The
Laboratory
Autocross as the proving ground. How time works on course. The decision that defines every corner.
HEAT 3
The
Flow
Road course driving, where fundamentals compound across a full lap. The corners that decide everything.
HEAT 4
The Operating Layer
Executing when it counts. Managing full events, between-run recovery, and the compression of everything.
HEAT 5
The Permanent Paddock
What sustains performance acrsoss a career. What you learned, and what you missed. The full circuit.
Each Heat mirrors how drivers actually develop — and assumes everything before it. Both capability and availability compound across all five.
“This is the first motorsports book that explained why drivers plateau.”
“I finally understand why my best laps never show up on race day.”
“The performance equation changed how I think about competitive driving.”
HPDE INSTRUCTOR
TIME TRIAL DRIVER
SCCA NATIONAL COMPETITOR
THE AUTHOR
BRAD LARSEN
Founder, NeuralRAM · Author, More Than Speed
Brad Larsen has spent four decades in competitive motorsport and 24 years at the executive level of Fortune 100 business — including building the Co-Sell model at Microsoft and leading GTM Operations at Lumen Technologies. The NeuralRAM framework emerged from the intersection: the same access problem that costs drivers tenths costs executives decisions.
More Than Speed is the motorsport expression of that framework — written for competitors who've already developed real skills and want to use them consistently under pressure.
40+ years competitive motorsport — autocross, HPDE, time trial, Optima USCA
Thousands of laps across 50+ tracks, including Road America, Laguna Seca, Thunderhill, Portland International Raceway
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy Supply Corps (2003–2013)
Fortune 500 GTM Executive · Founder, NeuralRAM LLC, Scottsdale AZ
COMMUNITY
THE PADDOCK
DEBRIEF
Ongoing intelligence for competitive drivers
The debrief doesn't end when the event does. The Paddock Debrief delivers ongoing analysis, framework updates, and field-tested insights directly to drivers who want to keep compounding. No noise. Just signal.
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW ACCESS
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FRAMEWORK UPDATES
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EVENT-DAY FIELD CARDS
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EARLY RESOURCE DROPS