The art of oval racing kicks of the last edition of the Racecraft & Race Cars Roundup for 2024. Additionally, you will find out what it takes to consistently drive at the limit, why you should focus on your performance and not your results and the latest 2025 series news plus much more.
Racecraft Tips & Techniques
On-Track
The video above from SafeIsFast looks at the art of oval racing. “Oval racing might look simple enough, but there is far more to mastering speedways than to just keep turning left! Our oval pros – four-time Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais, Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson as well as Conor Daly, Sting Ray Robb, James Hinchcliffe, Pietro Fittipaldi, Christian Lundgaard and Colton Herta – give their tips for your first oval test.”
Grassroots Motorsports has two great articles aimed at those of you who enjoy autocross but want to go faster.
- Go faster in autocross: The apps, sensors and traces you need
- How to quickly digest data for quicker autocross runs
Ross Bentley from Speed Secrets looks at what it takes to consistently drive a car at the limit and the fact that it takes a lot of time to develop the skills to do so. “Do you need a couple of decades to learn to do this? No. (I’ll provide some tips at the end of this article to shave time off of that process).” Read the full article here.
In the video above, Enzo Mucci explains how you should focus on your performance, not the result. “Today’s in-car video is what I took from this weekend’d Qatar race with Oliver Bearman. Its the importance to focus on you more than the result you get.”
Only five production sports cars have achieved a sub-7-minute lap at Germany’s notorious Nürburgring. It’s 12.94 miles of hard bumps, blind turns, elevation change and relentless g-force. To even attempt this feat, an elite team worked relentlessly over two years to create the highest-horsepower Mustang ever developed by Ford. Can the street-legal Mustang GTD join the sub-7-minute elite? Buckle up.
Off-Track
Bell Racing Helmets has announced the introduction of SmartLock, the innovative and patented, side-positioned, visor locking system for full-face helmets. The SmartLock™ system has been engineered to meet the very latest FIA safety specifications for auto racing helmets, whilst retaining the iconic DNA of Bell Racing products, to deliver cutting-edge functionality and seamless integration with the brand’s heritage. This pioneering feature once again demonstrates Bell Racing Helmets’ unrivaled ability to innovate and push the boundaries of motorsport technology.
Read more about the system here.
Race Car & Series Developments
Autosport looks in details at how club racing fared in the UK in a “tricky” 2024. “There was an exact divide between categories that declined and those that did not this year as organisers battled to attract entries from a smaller pool of drivers. In Autosport’s annual deep dive into the fortunes of club racing, a mixed picture emerges.”
Read their full report here.
The SCCA Board of Directors (BoD), would like to address misinformation that is circulating regarding the planned shift of the Formula Vee, Formula F, and Formula 600 (FV, FF, F600) classes out of some Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour events and into bonus U.S. Majors Tour events beginning in the 2025 competition season.
“We will begin by detailing what the shift in strategy entails, why the small formula run group is being affected, and then move to discuss the parties and reasoning that went into the decision-making process. Finally, we will discuss comments surrounding this topic that recently took place on social media.”
Read more here.
2025 Series News
- 2025 TCR UK Calendar Update (TCR UK)
- Oulton Park TCR World Tour Round Cancelled (Touring Car Magazine)
- TCR UK Moves to Settle License Issue Before Worldwide Homologation Enforcement (Touring Car Magazine)
- Kumho FIA TCR World Tour unveils exciting 2025 calendar (TCR World Tour)
- Mexico and Korea added to 2025 FIA TCR World Tour calendar (TCR World Tour)
- 2025 TCR Australia calendar includes two international rounds (Touring Car Times)
- Creventic Tweaks 24H Series Regulations For 2025 (Daily Sportscar)
- Ligier European Series Regulations Updated, Entries Open (Daily Sportscar)
- 2025 Season of the Australian Prototype Series (APS) Calendar Released (APS)
- V8 SuperUtes reveal six-round 2025 calendar with Supercars (SpeedCafe)
- NHRA confirms 2025 Pro Stock, PSM schedules (RACER)
- NASA Announces Corvette Cup, a New Spec Racing Series Launching in 2025 (NASA)
- British F4 launches Challenge Cup for 2025 season (British F4)
- GRIDLIFE expands to nine national events for 2025 (RACER)
- NXT Gen Cup lowers minimum age to 14 for 2025 (NXT Gen Cup)
- Driving Force to Introduce ‘GTX1’ Class Next Year (Sportscar365)
- SCCA to reintroduce Targa in 2025 (Grassroots Motorsports)
Track Days
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is evo’s 2023 Car, and 2024 Track Car of the Year, a car that has proved it’s unbeatable on both road and track for driving thrills, but can it beat Radical’s track-only SR3 XXR and McLaren’s pure supercar, the 750S, against the clock at Anglesey Circuit? The evo Leaderboard triple-test has the answer in the video above.
Sports Car Digest pays a visit to the Ten Tenths Motor Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “Located adjacent to Charlotte Motor Speedway and Hendrick Motorsports, the Ten Tenths Motor Club is a new joint venture combining the unparalleled motorsports and automotive heritage of Speedway Motorsports and business leader Rick Hendrick.” Read about their visit here.
Author: Mark Boudreau
Mark is the publisher of Motorsport Prospects. As a lawyer, he applies his legal background and research skills to assist race drivers by showcasing the resources they need to make their motorsport careers happen.
