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Road Racing

5 Things to Improve Your Qualifying Position

It may sound like an obvious statement, but races are much easier to win when you start from the front. Just ask any F1 driver who had to start from the second row at Monaco. Because of this, everybody wants to be on the pole position, or at least P2. Unfortunately, the spots up front […]

ProSolo

5 Things You Need to Know About ProSolo

Picture this: A two vehicle drag race, but instead of a quarter mile straight line, there are a pair of autocross courses chock full of corners and slaloms. Sounds like fun, right? Well, it IS fun, and the SCCA® has a program where anyone can do it with nothing more than a car and an […]

5 Tools SCCA Members Will Always Need

While enjoying a weekend at an SCCA® event, #funwithcars can quickly turn into #funwithtools. Fixing cars is just a reality of motorsports. Pushing vehicles to the limit pushes components to the limit, and “the limit” often means stuff breaks. When stuff breaks, you only have so much time to go into your magical toolbox and […]

5 Things to Know About Racing Helmets

Back in the day, we called racing helmets “crash helmets” because that’s what they’re designed for: To save your life when you hit stuff. I’ve also heard people refer to helmets as “brain buckets” because they protect your gray matter (it could be argued that some people are protecting more gray matter than others, but […]

5 Things to Know About Tires

When it comes to tires, we all know they’re round and made of rubber — but trust me, there’s a lot more to tires than them just being inedible rubber donuts. The fact is, tires are the most important component on a vehicle because every single thing a vehicle does, it has to do through […]

Road Racing

5 Things to Know Before You Drive a Race Car

I think we can all agree that race cars are cool. They’re colorful, make loud noises, and they’re fast. As racers, we can’t wait to drive them. Whether it’s our own car, a friend’s car, or the car of a student you’re instructing, you need to know five specific things before you actually drive the […]

Solo Nationals

5 Things to Do at Solo Nats That Aren’t Autocross

The Tire Rack SCCA® Solo® National Championships, held each September in Lincoln, NE, is the pinnacle of the autocross season. Two separate challenging — and often fast — courses must be conquered, and the best of the best are crowned National Champions. But the competition isn’t the only reason to attend the Solo Nats, because […]

Road Racing

4 Must-know Techniques for Successful Passing in Road Racing

Passing a competitor on a road course can be contentious — and to be frank, it’s contentious by design. In fact, it’s what makes it fun. You want to pass them, and they don’t want to be passed. You want to win the race, but so do they. In short, it’s why we do this. […]

Autocross

3 Top Priorities When Modifying a Street Category Autocross Car

One of the things I love about competing in the SCCA® is constantly meeting new friends who have the same passion about #funwithcars that I do. In 2023 at the 50th running of the Tire Rack SCCA Solo® National Championships in Lincoln, NE, I had the honor of competing against the host of the Inside […]

Autocross

4 Things You Can Learn from Professional Driving Experiences

I’ve been having #funwithcars with the SCCA® for more than 30 years, and during that time, I’ve never met a single person in the Club who considered themselves a bad driver. On the contrary, from road courses to rallies to autocross and RallyCross, everyone considers themselves an excellent driver. Personally, as an egomaniac racecar driver, […]