Service the race car that has to finish
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Track: Build & Mechanic
Difficulty: advanced
Estimated duration: 305 minutes
Coverage: 7 modules, 33 lessons
Course Overview
For advanced owner-operators who already understand basic automotive service and need to apply it to HPDE, track-day, and club-racing risk. The outcome is a repeatable mechanic's reference for prioritizing work, inspecting critical parts, diagnosing symptoms, proving repairs, and managing the car between sessions.
Modules
- Prioritize the work before you wrench - 4 lessons - Turn ordinary shop skill into race-car service judgment by ranking risk, schedule pressure, and driver confidence.
- Build records and checklists that catch failures - 5 lessons - Create the paperwork system that prevents forgotten details, unclear ownership, and lost component history.
- Inspect the parts that can end the day - 5 lessons - Focus inspection time on life-or-death components, highly stressed systems, fasteners, and early signs of failure.
- Diagnose track symptoms into mechanical hypotheses - 5 lessons - Translate driver feedback and simple data traces into testable mechanical causes without confusing setup tuning with repair.
- Prove repairs and changes with testing - 5 lessons - Use reversible tests, low-cost shakedowns, and controlled brake or systems checks to validate the car before race pace.
- Service each system by evidence - 5 lessons - Use symptoms, inspection results, and test outcomes to guide service across tires, brakes, suspension, powertrain, cooling, and driveline.
- Manage the trackside work window - 4 lessons - Make disciplined repair, adjustment, and stop/go decisions when time is short and the car has to go back out safely.
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