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Racing Equipment, Suits, and Gear

Welcome to norcalracing.com! We are a Web site dedicated to performance racing, we have gasoline in our veins and we want to share our passion for racing. Our site is dedicated to giving you the best information available without coupling it to a sales pitch. That’s why throughout our site you will find that we don’t advocate any specific brand or make. ‘Just the facts’ is our motto, and that’s all you will find here. So if you are looking through our site and see something that you think we should cover, or find a section that is unclear, please drop us an email and let us know. We update frequently and we’ll work to get your questions answered as quickly as possible.

The first automobile race featured as its racing equipment a single car that completed a two kilometer trip through Paris. Since the car finished the race and was its sole participant, the driver was judged to win the race. And thus began the illustrious practice of chasing your own record. Ok, but really, the first car race did have one entry. The first two car race was a trip from Paris to Rome, although the first person to finish that race didn’t actually win it. Apparently while we were figuring out this whole racing bit we still had a few priorities to straighten out. Finally in 1895 there was a race in which all the participants started simultaneously and the first to cross the finish line was judged the winner. This race took place from Bordeaux to Paris (both are in France).

In the span of a little over a century, auto racing has become a huge sport that has a multibillion dollar industrial complex attached to it. From the factories that churn out NASCAR engines to the ones that produce fireproof race suits or custom rims, the racing industry employs hundreds of thousands of people, and that’s before you start counting the race teams. You see, there’s a huge amount of equipment, racing gear, and machinery that must accompany a car to every race and since the beginning of the sport, no driver could do it all alone.

Today’s race teams have a crew dedicated to changing the tires, another dedicated to refueling, and still others dedicated to watching track conditions and warning drivers of possible problems down the line. These crews are sponsored by different corporations, all vying for the prestige of sponsoring a winning driver. The revenue from racing rivals that of any other sport, with successful teams bankrolling the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The big money is only part of the allure of racing though. For any true racer, the thrill of being in control of a powerful machine operating at high speeds is why they race. And that’s part of what makes racing the marketing behemoth that it is today. You see, even if you can’t get corporate sponsorship, you can still pay to have a car that drives faster than that schmuck that lives next door. That’s why people, and Americans above most others, love to watch racing. When you watch a football or basketball game, you can’t really put yourself into the shoes of the participants. But when you watch a race, you can really imagine yourself in the shoes of the drivers. It doesn’t take a genetic gift to make you a good driver, just a lead foot, good instincts, and nerves of steel.

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Racing Equipment, Suits, and Gear

Welcome to norcalracing.com! We are a Web site dedicated to performance racing, we have gasoline in our veins and we want to share our passion for racing. Our site is dedicated to giving you the best information available without coupling it to a sales pitch. That’s why throughout our site you will find that we don’t advocate any specific brand or make. ‘Just the facts’ is our motto, and that’s all you will find here. So if you are looking through our site and see something that you think we should cover, or find a section that is unclear, please drop us an email and let us know. We update frequently and we’ll work to get your questions answered as quickly as possible.

The first automobile race featured as its racing equipment a single car that completed a two kilometer trip through Paris. Since the car finished the race and was its sole participant, the driver was judged to win the race. And thus began the illustrious practice of chasing your own record. Ok, but really, the first car race did have one entry. The first two car race was a trip from Paris to Rome, although the first person to finish that race didn’t actually win it. Apparently while we were figuring out this whole racing bit we still had a few priorities to straighten out. Finally in 1895 there was a race in which all the participants started simultaneously and the first to cross the finish line was judged the winner. This race took place from Bordeaux to Paris (both are in France).

In the span of a little over a century, auto racing has become a huge sport that has a multibillion dollar industrial complex attached to it. From the factories that churn out NASCAR engines to the ones that produce fireproof race suits or custom rims, the racing industry employs hundreds of thousands of people, and that’s before you start counting the race teams. You see, there’s a huge amount of equipment, racing gear, and machinery that must accompany a car to every race and since the beginning of the sport, no driver could do it all alone.

Today’s race teams have a crew dedicated to changing the tires, another dedicated to refueling, and still others dedicated to watching track conditions and warning drivers of possible problems down the line. These crews are sponsored by different corporations, all vying for the prestige of sponsoring a winning driver. The revenue from racing rivals that of any other sport, with successful teams bankrolling the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

The big money is only part of the allure of racing though. For any true racer, the thrill of being in control of a powerful machine operating at high speeds is why they race. And that’s part of what makes racing the marketing behemoth that it is today. You see, even if you can’t get corporate sponsorship, you can still pay to have a car that drives faster than that schmuck that lives next door. That’s why people, and Americans above most others, love to watch racing. When you watch a football or basketball game, you can’t really put yourself into the shoes of the participants. But when you watch a race, you can really imagine yourself in the shoes of the drivers. It doesn’t take a genetic gift to make you a good driver, just a lead foot, good instincts, and nerves of steel.