For years our club team made do with a whiteboard to keep tabs on spare parts. It was functional in that nothing went up in flames, but it did have…
Formula 1
At our regional club we have an election for the competition committee every other year. As a rule there are as many candidates as there are seats to be had…
In the course of my racing career I have put eleven different cars under me yet had the same crew chief for nine of them. He can tell by the…
The regional series’ finest technical inspector put in four years examining the cars of others before a team made him an offer to build their own. It was plain to…
In this sport a list of career wins is the statistic most easily read and the most difficult to put in perspective. Lewis Hamilton has 106, which is more than…
With most of the club teams I have been with there is a car set aside for those yet to be taught. It is fitted with an older engine and…
Our club has a clerk of the course, and on a wet Saturday in April he is the least enviable person at the circuit. Rain arrives halfway through a session…
Every shop I have raced out of had one person who made the thing work. Not the loudest person and usually not the owner. The one who knew why the…
The hardest thing I had to learn as an instructor was when to say nothing. A student is loading the car into a corner badly, you can see exactly what…
My club has a rulebook, a competition board that interprets it, and a membership that complains about both. A protest costs a hundred dollars, goes to three people in a…