how do you become a race car mechanic?
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I don't know, I'd like to drive though, you can be my mechanic ...if you're good.  There are special schools but I think they cost quite a bit.  Here's one I ran across coming back from Charllotte yesterday.  \n\nwww.motorsportsintern.com
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you left out some info.-kind of race track-kind of race team. NASCAR will not grantee you a race date, so you will have to hold other kinds of races to get started if you want into NASCAR. The easiest way to get a team is to buy one out,or just start buying up what you need-building,tools,cars,shop equipment-hire personal,and a driver. Check with NASCAR or Indy League for all of the rules to build and run a track and or race team...
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My brother went to the Dale Jarret racing school and ended up with a part-time job. check out there web site\ndalejarretracing.com
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Start at a beginner lever. Midget racing, stock car racing, go cart to hone you fundamentals then and win win win races. The more you do that, you will more than likely get noticed by scouts and advertisers. And the rest will be history. And sell yourself to people.
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There are many. BUT, something many people not know, Briggs & Stratton is one of the World's largest manufacture's of Race Engines. Ha!!! Fire up the Lawn Mower!!! Go here: http://www.briggsracing.com/display/router.asp?docid=101243  After you check out their Engines then click on the Tabs across the top. Getting Started will give you links to various Go-kart Associations. Read around and see if you can find some sources. Remember when somthing says Racing it means Expensive. For a first kart I would read as much as I can and see how they making them. Find a race close and go look and talk to people. You may find it cheap and easy to Build your own cart or find a Cool Minded Welder that may help.......Tell him to Sponsor you with a free frame, maybe you buy the materials he furnish labor, Learn to Wheel and Deal and EDUCATE your potiential sponsors (Plural) with exciting Go-kart Racing Tidbits.!!!!! IF, you know something you stand a better chance of getting a few Sponsors that may help with some of your expense. IF, you not read and talk and learn, no one will sponser you. Then scarf a B&S Raptor Bolt that bad boy down and Zoom Zoom, you be racing. Good Luck!! Oh!! Get a Helment, and Gloves look professional, act professional and WIN!!!!!!
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There are usually local shops that build race cars. ask someone that races at a local track who built there car, chances are that a local shop did.
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Racing in any division of the sport is pretty much a rich man's game that normally requires to capital efforts of several financial backers/sponsors--who work together as a team, just like the mechanics, pit crew...etc.\n\nIf racing is your passion, I suggest you find a job you can work around college, pursue a degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in some form of architect design.....or maybe something un-related like Law or pre-medicine.\n\nBy the time you earn your degree, you'll be ready to post your resume to a auto racing team as a driver with a solid education with some areas of racing....or a back-up in another worthwhile field in the event racing wasn't in the cards for your life.
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Check out www.f1study.com
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You can start where you want, if you can afford it....Your best bet would be to go to a local track & start with a street stock, TRUCK, CAR TRAILER & EXTRA TIRES, PART'S ETC & last get the biggest sponser you can, to help off-set the cost out of your pocket..........then move up to a late model & so forth....these are full-body Vehicles..the street stock is your everyday camaro, monte carlo etc, with a full roll cage, stripped down body & interior.. The late model is a fiber-glass body on a tube frame, basically a frame,engine, seat & control's....Start there & learn your way to drive the vehicle at such high speed's.....Learn what wedge, tire pressure etc can do to the vehicle for handling.....Learn all the rules of stock car racing & memorize what each flag means too....... If you make a name for yourself there, you can move up more with a big name sponser.......Good luck & stay SAFE................Hope this question is not a DAYZ-DREAM
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Start in kart racing. NOW. Get really, really good. then hope you're noticed. Red Bull has a driver search program. The link is below\n\nKimi Räikkönen only had 23 professional races when he was signed by Peter Sauber.You don't need a lot of experience, you just need to be really, really good.
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Mass, acceleration, velocity, wheel size, traction (tire surface contact to track), torque from engine, horsepower. Are some of the things needed to know.\n\nYour best bet is start with a kit for a given class of race car and build and learn from that. Start with a Go-Kart.
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The easiest way to become a Nascar driver is to find the nearest short track under a Nascar sanction, buy or build a street stock or a 4 cylinder mini-stock, buy your Nascar License, and go racing. Now you are an officially licensed Nascar driver. There are thousands of them all across America. Now, if you want to get into the top three divisions, that will take money, time, talent, money, luck, and a little money. Lots of great short track drivers have awesome careers and never go near a Nascar event.
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Unfortunately, it's not that easy.  we have been racing for 14 years now & are constatnly looking for sponsers.  It requires very good people skills & basically selling yourself as a product.  You and your car will represent whichever company sponsers you.  It requires meeting a lot of people & a lot of knocking on strangers doors. I'd start with auto parts stores.  Also, we have made some deals with our favorite resturants & companies that we work for.  It helps to put together a portfolio about yourself & your racing achivements. Also - your sponsers might want you to bring your race car down so that can can view what condition your equipment is in & also, on days that the comapny has a big sale or open house, they might want you to bring the car down so that their customers can see it also.
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how to become a mechanical engineer
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I would like to get back to college and get my certificate in collision repair.  I'd then like to get a job as an Automotive Collision Repair technician.
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Try going 300 times in a racecar on the track. You will be lucky if you can stand the pressure on you mind and body for 100 of those. It is physical activity. Try it some time- go to the Richard Petty Drivers School or one like it. You will change your mind fast. As far as being a "sport" it is more demanding than football or basketball or baseball. Try it before you knock it. As far as the other posters- you do not know what you are talking about.
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Depending on your age, you should check into the University of Arizona's Race Track Education program http://ag.arizona.edu/rtip/ Several very famous trainers have gone through that program.  The traditional way to learn about training is to go work for someone and start from the ground up - go from hotwalker to groom to barn foreman to assistant trainer.  It takes a lot of hardwork and you will only ever learn the point of view of the trainer for whom you work.  Going through a program like the UA and some other schools offer you learn far more about equine anatomy, physiology, lamenesses, training theory, equine psychology, medications, etc. etc. in a shorter period of time.  The UA program does not focus specifically on teaching trainers either, their Industry program teaches courses about the frontside of racing (marketing, business, legal, etc.).  Finally they are established within the industry and their students get great internships and career placement advice.  If you are interested in hearing from students of the program, check out www.finalturn.com/forum there are several current and former students who would be glad to help you.