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Favorite Videos Of 2016: 180 hp Vs. 430 hp
It never ceases to surprise people how very different cars with very different power levels can run similar lap times.
Favorite Videos Of 2016: Passing Seminar At Petit LeMans
In this video, Kenton and WRR send holiday best wishes to you and your family for good times and a 2017 blessed with lots of safe, stylish passing!
What It’s Like To Go From Spec Miata To Daytona Prototype
Mark Drennan drives for Winding Road Racing and leads our driver coaching program. Mark is the 2016 Battery Tender Global Mazda MX-5 Cup rookie-of-the-year. Mark is also a two-time NASA national champion in Spec Miata. He recently shared his experience getting ready to drive a Daytona Prototype at the 25 Hours…
Holiday Wish Book: Spec Miata Season
When it comes to road racing, just about all roads lead to Spec Miata. If you’re thinking about getting in to road racing, Spec Miata is the most popular starting point, thanks to reasonable costs and competition throughout the field.
Winding Road Racing’s 2016 Holiday Wish Book
There’s a time to be practical and there’s a time to reach for the stars. With the holiday season upon us, we see no reason why we can’t have a little fun – especially when it comes to racing gifts.
Holiday Wish Book: BMW M235i Racing
Over the new few weeks, we’ll be putting together our dream holiday wish list. From race cars to apparel, we’ve compiled our Holiday Wish Book that would even make Rudolph jealous.
Go For The Win: Be On WRR’s 25 Hours Of Thunderhill Team
As you may know, we are fans of NASA’s 25 Hours of Thunderhill. The 25 is an epic race staged in December every year at Thunderhill Raceway, north of the Winding Road Team TFB shop in Sonoma, California.
“The Big Engine That Could” Mini-Series: Episode 6
Will The Big Engine, and a lot of heart from Team Winding Road’s 16 crew members, be enough to finish this grueling race and possibly stand on the podium in class in the December 2013 running of the 25 Hours?
Fantasy Junction with Winding Road Racing Brings Daytona Prototype To Thunderhill
Fantasy Junction with Winding Road Racing is bringing a Gen. 1 Riley Daytona Prototype to Thunderhill for the 25 Hours this December. The team’s goal is to win overall in the now classic off-season NASA endurance contest.
“The Big Engine That Could” Mini-Series: Episode 5
In The Big Engine That Could, a group of regular guys and girls participates in The 25 Hours of Thunderhill, historically the longest endurance race on the U.S. road racing calendar. Not only that, they have selected an unlikely beast of a car to race — the Ford Mustang. In Episode 5, they’ve reached the night portion of the race…
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 Big Engine That Could” Mini-Series: Episode 4
Watch episode 4 of The Big Engine That Could! In The Big Engine That Could, a group of regular guys and girls participates in The 25 Hours of Thunderhill, historically the longest endurance race on the U.S. road racing calendar.
Simple Steps To Managing Your Team Better
Just to be clear, every racer has a team. The “team” might be you. Period. It might be you and a friend, or you and anyone you can find to help at the track. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, it might be a full complement of mechanics and engineers on a professional arrive-and-drive team. Either way, you might be mismanaging…
“The Big Engine That Could” Mini-Series: Episode 2
Here’s the 2nd episode of our documentary about the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, historically the longest endurance race on the U.S. road racing calendar. Win or lose, The Big Engine That Could is a video mini-series of the process, the thrills and the problems of endurance racing, with behind the scenes coverage of the team’s progress and plenty of in-car footage.
In Thanksgiving For Racing And Racers
Yeah, we know Thanksgiving-the-holiday is more than a month away, but this is the season of SCCA, IMSA, PWC and NASA Championships. Mostly we wanted to recommend…
WRR TV: Kenton Koch’s ORECA Eats BMWs, Lambos, Ferraris and Audis For Lunch
At the recent IMSA Petit Le Mans race weekend at Road Atlanta, we had a chance to watch the GTLM (e.g. BMW M6 GTLM, Ferrari 488 GTE and Corvette C7.R) and GTD cars (e.g. Audi R8 LMS, Porsche 911 GT3 R and Lamborghini Huracan GT3) in night qualifying.
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.
Racing Video Stream Mini-Series Premieres This Fall
As the season-ending races are run — races like the SCCA Runoffs, the NASA East/West Championships, Petit Le Mans and World Challenge at MRLS — we find ourselves reluctantly looking toward the off-season.
Driverless Cars And The Future Of Racing
This month marks the fourth anniversary of Winding Road’s coverage of driverless cars. But what happens to automobile racing when driverless cars become widespread?
The Taxonomy of Vintage Racing
Vintage racing has a wonderful scene, with lots of cars, some really interesting cars, spectators, pageantry, parties and even a little racing. But who can play?
WRR University: Full Attack Racing During A Crash Can Be A Big Mistake
Race restarts offer a huge opportunity to make passes. The field is bunched up, tires are a little cold and sometimes the door opens. You can often make more passes in the first lap or two after a restart than at any other time in a race. But…
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