Sponsorship for motor racers can sometimes make the difference between success and failure, and very often a lifeline for struggling teams, so when the opportunity comes along, it should be welcomed with open arms. Once such racer is Ashley Boam who travels from Sheffield every fortnight to Arena Essex and twice a year makes the [...]
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Reproduced from the April 1995 issue of Short Circuit. And Window nets Story Mark Haddleton In 1994 window nets on the driver’s side of saloon cars in oval racing became compulsory, the idea being to protect a racing driver’s arm in the event of a major roll-over. The introduction of something that drivers have got [...]
It’s Bold, It’s Brash, It’s Big… and it’s in the UK. Its… Story Graham Brown Reproduced from the March 1999 issue of Short Circuit. Britain is to get USA-style oval racing at last – it’s official! With a well orchestrated press and publicity drive, the third week of February saw the news about the impending [...]
Story Jay Watkiss Have you ever dreamed of racing a National Hot Rod, rubbing wheels with Dave Longhurst, screaming around the outside of John Steward on the last bend, to win the World Final at Ipswich? Well you’re not alone, but what if you could, what if you could do all of that and much [...]
Story and Pics Martin D Clark An energy absorbing front bumper designed for NASCAR style stock cars got a crash test in front of the motorsports media at Charlotte Motor Speedway on August 28. The bumper designed by Lew Composites of Las Vegas with help from the University of Dayton Research Institute was the [...]
A new NASCAR game has been brought to our attention called NASCAR Heat. The demo download was a hefty 43mb, but the race action is superb, the demo letting you race at only Richmond, a 0.75 mile oval. Forget the amateur or novice settings, bump it up to the most difficult settings and the car [...]
We asked you to fill in a survey over 10 years ago in fact the year XXXX?, and here are the results. Unfortunately some of the questions asked have proved impossible to process with so many different answers, but the survey has shown up some surprises, and we will do it again in the near [...]
Story by Steve Harrison How to Determine Oversteer or Understeer Before starting, a common trick is to mark the top the steering wheel so that it coincides with the front wheels pointing straight ahead. From this you can tell at a glance from inside the car that your front wheels are pointing straight ahead when [...]
To the majority of people, racers included, the way to get around the corners quickly is about pointing the steering wheel in the right direction. Whilst this is most certainly the case, it is not the whole truth about fast cornering. Different cars will react very differently to the same steering input and some of [...]
By Jason Ansell This article is the result of three years of research into aerodynamics of Superstox. It would seem that that win designs being used at present are not all they could be. When aerofoils became the trend on top of Superstox, Cyril Ansell of A B C Racing, said “We’d better study up [...]
Story Ken Newman, additional pics Jean Ruston and Keith Hobson How is a Banger prepared, and what happens to it during and after the meetings? Ken Newman caught up with Mark Glenister who obliged us by allowing us to watch his preparation of a Granada. Ford Granada, registration number RGH 87V, started life as a [...]
Story Jamie Gibson There is a growing trend to find drivers using scales to help their racing. Walk around the pit at many meetings, especially F1′s, and you will see some scales being used. For some this is quite confusing, “how is knowing what the car weighs going to make it any quicker?” Making it [...]
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