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Ten Of The Best Racing Seats On Sale Today
Most everywhere in organized motorsport, a proper racing seat is a requirement if you want to compete. But more than simply complying with safety protocol, a great racing seat can have a profound effect not only on driver comfort but performance as well, as a seat that holds the driver in place properly allows that individual to focus their attention elsewhere – like running faster laps.
One Of The Best Seats For Tall Folks: Sabelt GT 3 Racing Seat
The Sabelt GT 3 racing seat is a great candidate for holding you tight while carving between the cones, diving into corners, or any other performance driving scenario.
The Best Carbon Fiber Helmets For Racing
When you are looking for a helmet for road racing, time trials, HPDE or track days, you naturally want the best combination of capability and value you can find. We asked experts and drivers to review most of the carbon helmets on the market to find those we’d suggest looking at first.
The Best Low-Cost Data System Gets Better
AiM Data Systems recently announced an upgrade to our favorite lap timer and data system, the AiM Solo and Solo DL. We are thrilled to see the changes they’ve made by introducing the AiM Solo 2 and Solo 2 DL (and just as importantly the features they’ve retained).
The Mother Of All Race Gear Buyer’s Guides
We have written many buyer’s guides to the best race gear. And we’ve written some how-to guides for installation as well, which are worth perusing before you make a purchase decision.
Best Bang for Your Buck: OMP OS 60 Racing Gloves
In today’s product review, we talk about the OMP OS 60 racing glove – one of our favorite gloves at Winding Road Racing.
The Mother of All Race Gear Bags
We call the Alpinestars Transition XL gear bag the mother-of-all-bags. Learn why we love this great looking and high functioning race gear bag.
Best Selling 6-Point Racing Harness
With its 2″ lap belts providing extra safety, lack of sewn ends (allowing users to swap out the ends to be snap in, bolt in, or wrapped for easy install in your race car) and its ability for the harness to be a pull up or pull down, the Schroth Flexi Profi II harness
Video Review: Helmet Bags
After spending the time and effort researching and purchasing a racing helmet, racers can’t forget about protecting their investment. With that in mind,
10 Reasons The AIM MXG Is the Best Data System
Let’s assume that you know you want a data system for your race car, because you want comprehensive data for review after a session on track. You also want a dash capable of displaying critical information like predictive lap times, shift lights and alarms so that you can do a better job in real time when you are behind the wheel.
The Best Road Racing Shoe: Alpinestars Tech 1Z
With the caveat that shoes really, really have to fit to be good, we bring to your attention the Alpinestars Tech 1Z as our choice for the best fire-resistant road racing shoe for 2017.
Ranking the 2016 Road Racing Series
The season isn’t quite over in F1, but pretty much everyone else is getting ready for 2017. So, with 2016 still fresh in our minds, the Winding Road staff got out our Plasmatronix Dynamic Computational Algorithm Discombobulator, now incorporating fuzzy logic, and applied it to evaluating the season.
The Best Racing Series?
There are many contenders for the greatest racing series. In modern times, we can quickly think of many good series in certain years and you probably can too.
The Best Race Car Cleaning System
This week’s Best Of article is written by Karen Graf, M.O.C.D., our staff expert in clean surfaces. Karen received technical assistance from team entomologist Mary Martin, M.D., and vinyl installers Juliann Pokorny, Tim Barber and Mike DeCesaro.
The Best Racing Helmet Bag
Many racers like to keep their helmet in a separate helmet bag. This adds an extra layer of protection, which is a comfort factor in a large gear bag. It can also…
There’s Exhaust And Then There’s Great Exhaust
Too often we’ve picked up a fancy new Porsche or BMW only to drive it for a week thinking “great car, but the drivetrain sound is kind of dull”.
The Best Helmet For The Rest Of Us
Winding Road Racing’s product management team recently got to wondering if they could do a helmet “for the rest of us.” They wanted something with the features of the exotic helmets but the price of the (sometimes sketchy) entry-level designs
The Best Racing Suits Of 2016
As an update to our Racing Suit Buyer’s Guide, here’s a look at our top auto racing suit picks based on various criteria. There’s something for just about everyone here, ranging from excellent entry-level options to our favorite zero-compromise choice. Got questions? Contact us here and we’ll be happy to help you find the racing suit that’s right for you.
The Best Road Racing Helmets
As an update to our Helmet Buyer’s Guide, here’s a look at our top auto racing helmet picks based on various criteria. There’s something for just about everyone here, ranging from excellent entry-level options to our favorite zero-compromise choice. Got questions? Contact us here and we’ll be happy to help you find the helmet that’s right for you.
ATF Versus Manual Gearbox Fluid: Choosing The Best Option For Your Transmission
Along with the rigors of everyday driving, after hitting the autocross and doing a Time Trial event with the WR Challenger, we decided it was time to swap out the original transmission fluid for some fresh stuff, and hopefully add some extra protection in the process.
Winding Road’s Top Ten Drives of 2015
From Hellcats to Huracáns, this year has proven to be a memorable one for high performance driving. Here, in no particular order, are ten of our favorites from the past twelve months.
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