Moving Up To Race Tires

Q: When should I make the move from sticky street tires to race tires?   A: You should move from street tires to race tires when...

Unfamiliar Territory – Learning a New Track Means Focusing on the Right Things First

Before we get into specifics about how to learn a new track, let’s look at some priorities concerning how to approach learning a new...

Finding Speed – Changing the way you think about reducing lap times

After a qualifying session, you find you are a half second off the pole-winning time in your class. That may mean you are in...

Driving Tips From The Ford Racing School – Skill Builders for Old Drivers

Here’s a question that might apply to a few NASA members: What’s a good way for older drivers to develop faster reflexes? Conventional wisdom holds...

One Lap Around – Sonoma Raceway

Whether you have a thousand laps at Sonoma Raceway, or if NASA’s Western States Championships will be your first visit, Sonoma Raceway can be...

How to Rotate a Car

You hear lot of people saying you have to “rotate” the car in a turn. How exactly do you rotate car? To answer the question,...

One Lap Around: Road Atlanta

I’ve been blessed and spoiled to call Road Atlanta my home track. I first visited the Road Atlanta tagging along with my friend Scott...

Driving Tips From the Ford Racing School – Fitness

I had been looking forward to the Sebring weekend all year. I was ready for my debut in World Challenge GT driving a Dodge...

Driving Tips From The Ford Racing School – Brake-release

Here at the Ford Racing School, working with both new and experienced drivers, we have found that everyone finds lots of lap-time improvement from...

Playing in Traffic – Strategy plays a key role on track and here’s how...

From the very beginning of an event through the checkered flag, you need two different skill sets: driving and racing. Driving is operating the...

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