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Are You Setting Useful Goals?
We work with many drivers during the year, and a surprisingly large number of them don’t know how to set goals for their racing. We think this is unfortunate because having the right goals can make racing more fun and more rewarding.
Jordan Taylor Sets An Example (For You And Me)
Everybody loves a winner, so I wasn’t surprised that our guys were pumped to have “real pros” in the field with them. But I did think it was a nice touch that Jordan Taylor…
The Expense Of Racing: Thoughts On Runoff Areas
One of the big expenses of racing can be crash damage. Totaling a car, for example, can equal the cost of an entire season. Like all sorts of unexpected events, crashes can be painful because of the expense and extra painful because you aren’t prepared for the expense.
Know Someone Who Should Become A Racer?
Well, in the spirit of encouraging all of those people to move at least one step closer to becoming racers, we’d like to modestly propose that they sign up for the Winding Road Racing Newsletter.
Strategic Dice: Lead Or Follow To Get The Win?
We were at Barber Motorsports Park recently for the opening round of the 2017 Battery Tender MX-5 Cup season. Our sponsored cars (#5 Mark Drennan/Winding Road @ Thunderhill, #21 Tom Martin III/WindingRoadRacing.com, #84 Todd Lamb/Winding Road @ ATL Speedwerks) had a good weekend.
Racing Is A Sport, But What Kind Of Sport?
This blog is not about the argument over whether race car drivers are athletes. They are, and it really takes someone who knows essentially nothing about the sport to misunderstand. Rather, this blog is about how we – drivers, teams and sanctioning bodies – design racing series to measure certain things.
Coaching Weekend at Circuit of the Americas
Join Winding Road Racing for weekend of racing and coaching at Circuit of the Americas for the NASA Texas Memorial Madness on May 26-28th. This is a perfect opportunity for one-on-one coaching and to race on an epic track!
Your Input Needed: Coaching Survey
Racers, please help us develop better services for you by taking this short survey.
10 Reasons Spec Miata Is The Best Racing Car
Not a week goes by without a customer coming in to one of our stores to ask about buying or building a race car. Most people seem to know what they want, others want some guidance. The former outnumber the latter, though on average both groups seem equally confused about their goals and how to achieve them. The general answer: Spec Miata.
“Rookie To Racer” Program
We get quite a few enquiries about how to go road racing, what car to race in, how much racing costs and other sensible questions about getting into the sport.
Get Ready For Sebring: Historic Video Footage
In this video covering the 12 Hours Of Sebring in the 1960’s we see some video footage of historic cars.
WRR TV: Get Ready For F1 2017
During this early race season lull, get ready for F1 by spending 7 minutes watching one of the great on-track battles in F1 history.
10 Things You Can Do To Support Your Team
Here are 10 ideas for ways you can support your team. When you do these things, your team works better and you all have more fun.
The Thrill Of Racing: The Possibility Of Death Is Not The Thing
If you listen to racing broadcasts on TV, you will hear a commentator at some point mention that the draw for racers, the essential thrill of racing, is the proximity they feel to the possibility of death or serious injury.
WRR Driver Profile: Marcelo Rocha Peixoto
Winding Road Team TFB has signed a new driver to its 2017 Battery Tender Global MX-5 Cup Team. Marcelo Peixoto is a Brazilian driver with a long history of success in Brazilian Touring Car racing.
Watch This Space: WRR To Announce $100,000 In Racing Scholarships
In the coming weeks, we will announce the application procedures for $100,000 in scholarship funds for racing in 2017.
Video: When Brakes Fail, Excess Excitement Occurs
This video was suggested to us by a reader. It shows Michael Mosty, in a NASA CMC race at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit. Mosty, a fixture of CMC racing in the southwest, loses a brake line while setting up a pass.
Why Is “Pro” Racing So Expensive?
Winding Road Team TFB provides full “arrive and drive” services for both club and semi-pro racing series. We thought a little explanation might assist drivers who are on the fence understand whether they would be getting good value in one of these series.
Planning 2017: Go Racing For Real
If you are one of those people who pretty regularly think “I should get my racing license some day” or when watching a race thinks “that looks like fun, I should go racing some day” we want to politely suggest that 2017 is the time to turn “some day” into “today”.
Planning 2017: Run Targa Newfoundland
You probably had the thought at some point “wouldn’t it be great if the police closed this road and we could just run it wide open?”
Suggested New Year’s Resolutions For Racers
We polled our drivers to find out what New Year’s resolutions they were thinking about. We thought we’d share the list as potential inspiration for you.
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