First Contact: Proper Procedures After Contact on Track

They call it door-to-door road racing for a reason. Racing is an aggressive sport and sometimes those two doors, well, in a hard-fought road...

Ford Driving Tip – Being Right on Someone’s Bumper

Q: I’m finding it difficult to gauge my braking when I’m right on someone’s bumper. I find myself erring on the side of caution and...

Left-Foot Braking

Many consider left-foot braking an advanced technique reserved for the upper echelons of motorsport. However, we all do it when we get into a...

How To Achieve Fast and Legal Enduro Pit Stops

If you want to improve your best lap time around a track by one full second, you will either need to spend a lot...

Ford Performance Racing School Driving Tip – Steering With The Throttle

Q: What does steering with the throttle really mean, and how do you do it?   A: Most inexperienced drivers think of steering with the throttle...

How and When to Sacrifice Speed on the Racetrack

One of the most consistent mistakes we see drivers make comes when it is time to potentially sacrifice one corner to be fast through...

One Lap Around: Virginia International Raceway

I have been asked to describe VIR many times. You would think that after 16 years, hundreds of races and thousands of laps, it...

One Lap Around: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course

Built in 1962 by Les Griebling and several area businessmen as place to do some weekend sports car racing, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course...

Hydration, Fitness and Nutrition – Personal Prep Tips for Race Day

Like traditional athletes, competitive drivers and their teams are engaged in a physically and mentally demanding sport, susceptible to such health issues as fatigue,...

One Lap Around: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

I am lucky to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have four major racetracks within a three-and-a-half-hour drive, with nine major tracks...

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