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By a Racer, For Racers: Finding Target Brands for Sponsorship

By a Racer, For Racers: Finding Target Brands for Sponsorship

For young racers looking to make the step into racing professionally, a singular topic is always at the forefront: sponsorship.  Current Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup challenger Aidan Fassnacht dives deep into the prospect of finding funding to secure a racing seat; the first of a four part series - By a Racer, For Racers.

By Ronan Glon | September 27, 2022
The Start: Ten Seconds That Can Make… Or Break Your Race
The Start: Ten Seconds That Can Make… Or Break Your Race

The old saying goes, “No race has ever been won in the first corner, but many have been lost there." Well if that’s true, then why do so many drivers go for it at the start?

By Ronan Glon | August 29, 2022
Formula 1
Why We Love Willy T. Ribbs
Why We Love Willy T. Ribbs

Just one week into F1's summer break, we've found ourselves rewatching some of the 2022 season's highlights.  One of the most memorable moments so far has to be Willy T's podium interviews after the Miami GP.

By Ronan Glon | August 08, 2022

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Features , Racing
Ten Innovative Production Car Technologies Born in Racing

For decades, car manufacturers from all around the world have turned to racing in a bid to prove their cars’ technical superiority and boost their overall brand image. How many times have you read the term “race-derived” in a road test, a press release or a sales brochure?

By Ronan Glon | December 24, 2014
Features , Racing
The Six Steps of Race Preparation

It’s been said that preparation is not just one thing, it’s everything, and Davin provides some great reminders of this message in this week’s feature article. As a kart racer, he knows what it’s like to do his own prep, pack up his tools and spares, tow to the track, race, tune the kart between sessions, pack up, head home, and start all over again. It sounds simple, but there’s a method to the madness – at least, there should be.

By Ross Bentley | December 23, 2014
Features , Racing
WRR TV: Long Races Equal Lots of Passing

Ride along with Winding Road Racing team driver Tom Martin III in a Spec Miata during the 44th annual Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs Loooong Race at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in South Beloit, IL.

By Bradley Iger | December 19, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets: Keeping Your Car Healthy

These week, data guy Matt Romanowski writes about how to use your data system to help you monitor the health of your engine. As he so accurately points out, it’s difficult to work on improving your driving when your engine isn’t working! – Ross

By Ross Bentley | December 09, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets: Approaching – and Surpassing – Your Limit

I’m really pleased to have Mike Zimicki join the team of Speed Secrets Weekly contributors. Mike has coached drivers such as Ryan Hunter-Reay, Graham Rahal, Danica Patrick, Ashley Freiberg, John Edwards, and Jon Fogarty (to name just a few), so there’s no doubt he knows how to help pros win. But as he’s worked at Skip Barber for years, he also knows how to help novices and drivers of all levels and types. So, learn from and enjoy what Mike has to share!

By Ross Bentley | December 01, 2014
Features , Racing
WRR TV: A Slick Corner Claims a Ferrari and a McLaren

During the second race of the weekend at Road America of the Pirelli World Challenge series earlier this season a damp course spelled disaster for a pair of racers.

By Bradley Iger | November 25, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets: Race Driving As A Business

Raise your hand if you’d like to be paid to race cars. Okay, that’s more than one of you. And that’s the problem – many drivers want to make a living as professional race drivers, and there aren’t enough spots for them all. So, to stand out from the crowd, one needs to… well, stand out from the crowd. And one way of doing that is to operate more business-like than others. – Ross

By Ross Bentley | November 18, 2014
Features , Racing
Four Ways to Tune Up Your Body for Race Day

Whether you’re a pro-in-training or a casual track day driver, physical and mental fitness makes a difference to how you perform. A participant in HPDE and track days, as well as an instructor, Ingrid Steffensen shares her thoughts on how you can give your driving a physical tune-up in this week’s feature article.

By Ross Bentley | November 11, 2014
Features , Racing
WRR TV: Now THAT’S a Standing Start

Ride along with Robert Thorne in the #6 K-PAX Racing McLaren 12C GT3 in Race One at Miller Motorsports Park. The twenty-four year old Thorne started 4th, and with a perfectly executed standing start he launched to first place in the opening lap, managing to keep Cadillac Racing’s Johnny O’Connell from taking the lead heading into Turn 1.

By Winding Road Staff | November 07, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets: How to Choose a Coach

As someone who’s made a living from coaching drivers over the past 25 years, as well as being a strong promoter and advocate for it in a sport that traditionally has not accepted coaches, it’ll come as no surprise that I have an opinion on this topic!

By Ross Bentley | October 28, 2014
Features , Racing
Attention Team Winding Road Racing Members: We Want Your Racing Videos!

One of Winding Road Racing’s core objectives is to support amateur road racing in the United States. But more than that, we also want to publicize your achievements. Send us your racing videos and we’ll feature it on the Winding Road Racing YouTube channel.

By Winding Road Staff | October 27, 2014
Features , Racing
The Four Most Common Types of Differentials and What You Need to Know About Them

Many fans and enthusiasts talk about or hear pro drivers and their engineers discuss the “diff” or “differential.” It’s a part of the car that is NOT easily changed and adjusted by the average high performance track day driver, but knowing how the different types of diffs behave can help you understand the handling of your car and what you can do to improve it. Then you can get a smart, experienced driver coach to help you drive around the limitations of the diff that’s in your car, or hire a smart race engineer to change or adjust it for you. So what is a diff and what does it do?

By Ross Bentley | October 20, 2014
Features , Racing
Classic: Japanese Grand Touring Championships / SuperGT

Calsonic blue, Autobacs orange, Takata green. Show any Millennial gearhead these racing liveries and they’ll recognize them faster than a Baby Boomer can scream “Gulf!” It matters not to these youngsters that their beloved red and silver Zent racers advertise a chain of seedy Japanese pachinko casinos, (a fact most native English speakers aren’t aware of) or that they’ll never set foot in one, what’s important is that these cars raced in SuperGT.

By Ben Hsu | October 20, 2014
Features , Racing
WRR TV: Tire Failure or Red Mist?

Ride along with Dean Martin in the #50 Picture Cars East/Rehagen Racing Ford Mustang Boss 302S during Race 2 at Sonoma Raceway during the Pirelli World Challenge GTS race on Sunday August 24th. After an exciting first lap and a promising first half of the race in which Martin gains numerous positions, a perceptible drop in pace begins to be accompanied by noticeably less composed laps.

By Bradley Iger | October 17, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets Quick Tip: Why Smooth is Fast

Ross has always talked about how smoothness leads to faster speeds, and in this Speed Secrets Quick Tip, he explains why. This applies to performance drivers, race drivers, club racers, HPDE students, track day drivers, and HPDE instructors at all levels.

By Winding Road Staff | October 13, 2014
Features , Racing
The Three Priorities of a Race Start

This issue of Speed Secrets Weekly is a little different in that it is entirely made up of my answers to readers’ questions. The first question – and a common one – is aimed at race starts, and is the focus of the main article. While many queries have been specifically about where to position one’s car, when to begin accelerating, or how to jump the start, they all boil down to this one question: How do I get the best possible race start?

By Ross Bentley | October 07, 2014
Features , Racing
WRR TV: Watch the Closest Finish in PWC GTS Class History

Watch as Mark Wilkins in the #38 Kia Optima manages to secure the closest ever GTS margin of victory, 0.039 of a second, over Alec Udell in the #17 Watson Racing Ford Mustang Boss 302S during the Pirelli World Challenge Race 2 at Streets of Toronto.

By Winding Road Staff | October 03, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets Quick Tip: Learning From Mistakes

The mental game of driving is critical to your driving performance, whether you’re a performance driver, race driver, club racer, HPDE student, track day driver, or HPDE instructor. And how you handle mistakes is a critical part of it.

By Ross Bentley | October 01, 2014
Features , Racing
Race Class Profile: Formula Mazda

Known within the Sports Car Club of America as the FM class, Formula Mazda is one of the more affordable open wheel racing classes available today, slotted between Formula Ford and Formula Atlantic in terms of both cost and performance. The series originally grew out of a group of chassis built by Hayashi in Japan for the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School, which made their debut at the 1984 Long Beach Grand Prix.

By Winding Road Staff | September 26, 2014
Features , Racing
Speed Secrets: Your Eyes are the Best Driving Tools You Have

Back in 1994, Don Kitch founded ProFormance Racing School at what was then called Seattle International Raceway (currently Pacific Raceways), and he continues today to share his knowledge, experience, and love of driver training with thousands of students each year. While Don can talk at length about the most advanced driving techniques and approaches, he knows that the basics matter. And it’s the basics, done well, that truly matter

By Ross Bentley | September 25, 2014
Features , Racing
Gallery: 2014 Australian Muscle Car Masters

This month marked the 10th annual running of the Australian Muscle Car Masters, a massive celebration of not only V8-powered Aussie bruisers, but a wide array of historic racing machines from past eras.

By Winding Road Staff | September 25, 2014

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