The FastLane Blog
Driver stories, racing-school insight, and news from Buttonwillow, straight from the team that coaches it.
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Heart Rate Training for Motorsports Part II
In the last blog, we discussed the basics of how the monitors work and how you can use them in your race car to track where your heart rate goes during a race. Today, we’ll take a closer look at training zones and actual heart […]
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Heart Rate Training for Motorsports
Auto racing has always been a sport known for pushing the limits to the extreme to gain a winning advantage. In today’s arena, it’s all about data. Engineers track vehicle speed, rpm, g-force and a multitude of other data to help improve the set-up of […]
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2021 Indianapolis 500 Recap, How the Race was Won
If you were fortunate enough to watch the Indy 500, you witnessed one of the best races ever. Every “500” has 33 unique stories but only one winner – and in this case it turned out to be a (now) four-time winner in Helio Castroneves. […]
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The Armchair Racer’s Guide to the Indianapolis 500
Are you interested in driving an Indy car? Take a look at our race car rental program – we have Indy lights cars that you can rent and drive! – Editor With the fastest field of drivers in the 2021 Indianapolis 500 ever, and the […]
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FastLane Racing School Expands to Buttonwillow Raceway Park
FastLane Racing School announces that it is expanding to a dedicated facility at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. FastLane will now offer classes and services from both Willow Springs International Raceway, the school’s original location, and Buttonwillow Raceway Park. May 21, 2021 Santa Clarita, CA FastLane Racing […]
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FastLane Racing School Announces New CEO and Expanded Driver Programs
After more than 25 years of providing high performance driving instruction at Willow Springs International Raceway, FastLane Racing School (raceschool.com) has hired a new CEO, Sandy Mahle. FastLane has started launching new programs and will continue to do so throughout 2021. They will also continue […]
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The 10 Weirdest Formula 1 Cars Of All Time
Formula 1 is all about speed. It’s the pinnacle of autosports, and engineers are tasked with finding creative ways to make the cars as fast as possible while the drivers are tasked with racing the wheels off of ’em. Formula 1 has seen some fantastic-looking […]
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From 14 MPH To 270 MPH: The History of Fastest
Since the invention of the first horseless carriage, mankind has spent untold fortunes in the pursuit of going just a little bit faster. Why? Because there’s nothing quite like a good old-fashioned bar fight over whether Car A counts as a production car, or if […]
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Lexus LC 500h: The Hybrid We All Want To Drive
Lexus has announced the full details on its 354-hp LC 500h coupe. When we heard that Lexus would build a hybrid variant of its LC coupe, we hoped it would feature the 5.0-liter V8. But while those two extra cylinders didn’t make the final cut, […]
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The Toyota “Stackable Wing” Flying Car
The idea of flying cars was introduced by sci-fi author Jules Verne and has adorned numerous covers of Popular Mechanics magazine ever since. There has been recent development in cars that fly, including a company that Google co-founder Larry Page invested in, but Toyota’s apparent […]
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The Ten Most Successful Race Cars Of All Time
At Fast Lane, we have had our share of races. Be it spec, time attack, formula, or chump car, we like to win. Today’s blog post has a few others that love to win. In fact, they pretty much destroyed their competition and redefined their […]
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Heartbreak at Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans holds a special place in our hearts. More than any other race, it’s a crucible in which new technology is forged, technology that’s directly relevant to the cars you or I drive on the road. And for 23 hours […]
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