March 20th 2010 marked the 58th running of the Sebring 12 hour race, for me it was only the 7th time at the event. For a half day of racing, it has a gruesome reputation as being the event that really tests whether or not you have a “race car”, or “project”. For the Risi [...]

Last week – March 8 – 12, I enjoyed what is best described as pure good luck. Although I could make an effort to deceive and pretend that it was a solution derived from hard work and investigation, that would not be true. The result of a simple mis-strike on the keyboard delivered me with a [...]

In April of 2009 when Tracey and I were on a brief visit to Australia, I had the opportunity to visit the ECU Motorsports workshops at Joondalup and talk with half a dozen of the ECU, Formula SAE team who were completing the 3rd year of the ECU Bachelor of Technology (Motorsports) course that uses the FSAE [...]

Last post I covered some very, very early “research” into shifter design. Preceding that in the early 70′s was a very funky double lever, one wheel brake for my hill trolley as an 8 year old……..but that’s another story. This time we are covering some more recent history and forthcoming shifter product developments. In 1999 Windrush purchased [...]

Some times it’s not a matter of where you are heading, but rather – where have you come from?…. Today I had a chance to uncover some relics that long pre-date the first products I ever designed for Porsche’s, but it is air-cooled and it is mostly hand made. In the very best of “competition engineering” [...]