BEYOND THE ZONE

“A book ‘out of this world’."

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing and motor racing; all the rest are merely games."

- Ernest Hemingway

“Grand Prix racing is primarily a mental contest… it’s a battle of strength of wills by the combatants and a magnificent contest, the arena to display and share unique gifts and talents. Perhaps in this ‘theatre of speed’, F1 is a metaphor for life itself”

- craig

The world's fastest drivers, the greatest Grand Prix drivers of our day reveal the magic of motor racing at the limit... and beyond.

Even the greatest champion of them all, Ayrton Senna admitted there was something greater than he was.

“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,

he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,

or Beethoven composed music,

or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

He should sweep streets so well,

that all the hosts of heaven will pause to say,

here lived a great street sweeper

who did his job well.”

- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr

“When you’re writing there are times when you feel it’s a bit of a struggle. However, at other times you’re in what is called ‘the zone’ and writing just feels effortless. This happens when finding the right words is no longer a struggle; but this heightened state, as with most crafts usually comes with practice. Then words simply flow into your head faster than you can write them down (or can press the keyboard). But you have to really push your writing limits to get this kind of experience. “

Then later you look what you’ve written and think: “Bloody hell. That’s good. Did I really write that seemingly without much effort? Wonder where all that came from (a cerebral thing or “outer space”!”

- A “nony-moose” writer (as inspired by Overdrive: Formula One in the Zone

The submitter is presently “working on” a new book ‘Beyond the Zone’. This e-book follows on from my e-books Racing (and Writing??) in the Zone and God and Formula One

He’ll keep adding to it, as he “researches and explores the last unexplored frontier, the human mind”, then upload, AS he writes and further develops these ideas and concepts. It’s “a true labour of love” sitting in the hot New Zealand sun and writing about God and Formula One. Pure paradise/sheer bliss!

Enjoy and dream on...

“It’s a trance, like being on some pleasurable drug.”

Wimbledon legend, Boris Becker confirmed the Zone is attainable to anyone performing at a high level, no matter the discipline. This is something that happens to all professional sportsmen.”

… and perhaps even to some writers… very occasionally.

“…considering it didn’t cost much effort. That’s about the best you can do as a writer, but it’s more of a cerebral thing.”

“I write best when I don’t think about the outcome, like how am I going to get this published, make money, whose going to read it, what will they “tink”?, etc. I just relax and empty my mind, yet concentrate fully by focussing purely on the doing (in the present moment, the ‘here and now’), creating the best story( all true) that I can, building it brick by brick, word by word, one upon the next. Have the intention to write, then put it into practice – just DO! Then totally immersed in that, writing the very best words I can put down, really relaxed in the moment, the words just seem to flow out of my ‘little’ head faster than I can jot them down.”

- craig

"Maybe Senna's lap at Monaco was 100% perfect, but it's not being in the Zone that makes you qualify like he did that time. That was something else - "beyond the Zone". That's heaven...'

- Lewis Hamilton on his boy-hood hero

"In Turkey, I would say, yes, I was 'beyond the Zone'. Somewhere else..."

- Lewis Hamilton

"In his finest moments Ayrton Senna found tiny glimpses of a heaven on Earth to which each ONE of us can aspire."

PPS

"The Zone could simply be a gateway to the divine, one of God's methods of reminding us that...