Toolshed Engineer

When you can’t get to the racetrack, but you still feel the urge to play with cars, the next best thing is the digital...

Fellow NASA racer and 25 Hours of Thunderhill E2 class winner Peter Hopelain has a cool podcast called The Technik Podcast. If you haven’t...

Racecar drivers are always chasing a tenth of a second. Generally, racers don’t care where the tenth comes from. They just want to be...

Over the years, my racing team has accused me of being a real pain in the ass. This comes from my dedication to extreme...

My job on the race team is to drive, but it’s not what you think. My job isn’t to drive racecars — that is...

Part of being a racecar driver is learning new racetracks. There is always time to be gained through track familiarization. In recent decades, technology...

Engines like cold air to make power. The question is: How do we get the coldest air into our air filters to make that...

Aligning your own vehicle isn’t as scary as you might think. With a few of the right tools and some practice, the process is...

Not all racecar drivers are mechanics. Some drivers have to be shown where the door handle on the driver’s door is just to get...

Anyone who has spent any time in a race paddock has experienced this super-fun racing sequence: 1. Quickly crawling under a hot racecar to...