Gear for That Long-Anticipated Return to the Track
Are your belts installed correctly?
Everybody knows motorsports is dangerous. Even if in the back of their mind they hope it will never happen to them. You can do it all right, but if you do it for long enough, you’ll crash your car.
Crashes happen and most race cars are repairable, depending on the amount of damage. When a severe crash happens, sometimes it is easier to start over than it is to fix the crashed car.
Racing has its own judicial system, the 700-page document called the General Competition Rules. If you break the GCR’s laws or rules, the sanctioning body has a system in place to issue corrective action.
After deciding to start a fresh race car build with only 57 days out from the Runoffs, the search began for a new E46 M3 shell.
While working on the car, Hi-Speed notified me of some alarming news: My cage was not fully welded together.
A tight timeline to build a new E46-chassis M3 to replace the one wrecked meant that every moment needed to count.
