Like Clockwork – How to take on the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, from the...

The 25 Hours of Thunderhill. You have read about it in magazines and watched YouTube videos of insane night driving stints. A guy in...

Test Day Logic: Setup First, Then Speed

I was back in Florida last week, this time at Sebring International Raceway for the annual Porsche Club 48 Hours of Sebring. I was...

HPDE Driver

A colleague of my wife, Margo, and mine, Hal Massey, a regular in American Iron racing in NorCal back in the mid ‘90s, stopped...

One Lap Around Buttonwillow Raceway

In the middle of California’s Central Valley lies Buttonwillow Raceway, a technical circuit with 16 different race configurations and the option to run clockwise...

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,...

Establishing Good Vision

Proper vision techniques can have the greatest benefit to a driver’s lap times. They also can be difficult to develop or change. Developing vision...

Top of the Class – Instructing in HPDE is tough, especially when the classroom...

Any parent who has volunteered in their child’s classroom at school knows teachers have a tough job. A few hours with a pack of...

Watch for the Yellow Flag

When NASA went to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in July 2013, there was an incident that could have ended tragically for a course worker....

Cumulative Progress – The Racing Driver Development Process

There is always more performance to be had from tuning the driver than from tuning the car. That should make deciding where to focus...

Essential Spares: C5 Corvette

You can reminisce all you want about the glory days of motorsports in the 1960s, but the winningest period in the history of Corvette...

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