Racecar Engineering

Prep school

Earlier this year I wrote a column on how IMSA had put restrictions on the number of personnel allowed at the track this year due to the pandemic. Limited to 15 team members per car, we had gone into Daytona not knowing anything different as that was all we had anyway. We hadn’t had to reduce our numbers because we already run a lean team, so were able to make the best of it and performed pretty well. But if you are used to having 30 people per car it’s more of a challenge. You have to think about which jobs to cut out, or work

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