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...
Weight Watching – Understanding Weight Transfer and Racecar Dynamics
Most of us understand that tires make traction through friction between the rubber molecules at the tire’s contact patch and the road surface. And...
