The $3,000 Helmet: An IndyCar Case Study in Compliance-Driven Cost Inflation
With so much talk today about the rising costs of competing in top-level racing, I realized this was a golden opportunity: a chance to do a real apples-to-apples comparison between 1977 and 2025 safety equipment.
Even better: the vendor featured, Simpson Safety Equipment, still exists under the name Simpson Race Products. This meant I could go straight to the source, nearly 50 years later, and uncover some surprising insights about how costs have shifted, where the pain points really are, and what this says about the evolving economics of racing today.
10 Truths About Motorsports Hiding In Plain Sight
These ten truths won’t fix everything but they may explain why so many motorsports teams struggle, why sponsors hesitate, and why certain series are quietly pulling ahead.
If you're in the ecosystem, whether you’re representing a team, brand, or platform, this is what you're up against.
When Access Becomes Chaos: The Fan Safety Crisis Motorsport Is Not Seeing
My fear is that motorsport is again careening down a treacherous road it’s already travelled, waiting for something to go wrong before writing the rules.
Let’s not do that.
I want to enjoy a day at the track with my wife, and another after that, and another, until we can’t physically go to the track anymore.
I want the same for everyone else and their family.
Let’s not wait until we’re reading about another disaster, this time not involving a car, but a crowd.
Not a fatal crash, but a failed evacuation.
Not a broken barrier, but a blocked tunnel.
This isn’t about catastrophizing. It’s about foresight, it’s about respecting people’s very lives by assuring them that if they show up to an FIA event, the only strong emotion they will feel is the joy they experience as a Hypercar or Formula 1 car flashes by them.
The Financial Audit That Could Save Your LMGT3 Team Over 100,000 Euros
In our previous breakdown of LMGT3 racing team expenses, we mapped the typical cost structure. This article takes it further based on the principle that when budgets are large in absolute terms, even small changes on a percentage basis can absolutely move the cash-flow needle.