Racing Resources
The original links page was a set of graphic buttons pointing at drivers, allied teams and commercial partners. Almost none of those destinations still exist, and the ones that do belong to other people. This page replaces it with something more durable: the institutions that actually hold the technical and historical record of this kind of racing.
Engineering and standards
- SAE International — Standards. The professional body for mobility engineering. Its standards cover materials, fasteners, fluids, restraint systems and a great deal else that a race car is built from, and its technical paper archive holds much of the published applied vehicle-dynamics work of the last half-century.
- SAE Motorsport Engineering. The specific engineering community around racing, where a good deal of setup, aerodynamics and safety-structure work gets presented.
- ASTM International. Materials and testing standards. Relevant to a race shop mainly through tubing, sheet, fastener and composite specification.
Safety
- Snell Memorial Foundation. An independent non-profit that has certified motorsport and motorcycle helmets since the 1950s. Its standards explainer is the clearest available account of what a certification actually tests for and why it expires.
- Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. The international governing body, whose safety department publishes homologation standards for equipment and circuits and funds a substantial research programme.
- Motorsport UK. A national governing body whose regulations and technical guidance are unusually well documented publicly, and a useful comparison point for how the American and European systems differ.
Research and education
- William States Lee College of Engineering, in Charlotte — the engineering school embedded in the North Carolina motorsport corridor, running coursework aimed directly at the industry.
- CU-ICAR, Clemson University's automotive research campus. Applied vehicle engineering, much of it directly relevant to racing.
- NIST Time and Frequency Division. Not obviously a racing resource until you consider that every timing and scoring system in the sport ultimately references national time standards.
History and archives
- Smithsonian Libraries and its digital collections. Substantial holdings on American automotive and motorsport history, and the right first stop for anyone researching the period properly rather than from secondary sources.
Industry
- Specialty Equipment Market Association. The trade body for the specialist parts industry that supplies teams — which, in the Charlotte–Mooresville corridor, is most of the local economy.
A note on what is missing
Deliberately absent from this list are the sanctioning bodies' own commercial sites, individual team sites and driver sites. Those change ownership, get redirected and lapse, which is exactly what happened to nearly every link on the original page. Standards bodies, universities and national libraries are the ones still answering twenty years later, which is why this list is built from them.