Toolshed Engineer

Motorsports is a complex beast with a lot of moving parts. It’s almost too much for one person to take on. Formula 1 teams...

Here is some information that won’t surprise anyone who has spent any amount of time at a racetrack: Racing is expensive. It isn’t just...

If you don’t count my Hot Wheels years, I’ve been playing with cars for more than three decades. I’ve wrenched on them, raced them...

These days there are plenty of ways to learn a track you haven’t been to before. You have YouTube, video games, Google Maps, driving...

It is a cold December, the NASA Championships are completed and the checkered flag at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill has  flown. That means...

The next time you finish a session on track, take a quick glance at your tires. You will notice an interesting phenomenon. You have...

One of the relatively inexpensive and common ways to improve handling on a vehicle is to add or upgrade sway bars. These bars, often...

I’m going to make a proclamation. This will officially be the easiest and least costly Toolshed Engineer column ever to be in Speed News....

I like simple, especially at the racetrack where things are often anything but simple. If I can create a system to make things easier...

Most amateur racecar drivers obsess over every detail of their cars. Well, in my experience, the psychotic successful racers do, anyway. These attention-to-detail car...