Tommy Parry

About Tommy Parry

Tommy Parry has been racing and writing about racing cars for the past seven years. As an automotive enthusiast from a young age, Tommy worked jobs revolving around cars throughout high school and tried his hand on the race track on his twentieth birthday. After winning his first outdoor kart race, he began working as an apprentice mechanic to amateur racers in the Bay Area to sharpen his mechanical understanding. He has worked as a trackday instructor and automotive writer since 2012 and continues to race karts, formula cars, sedans and rally cars in the San Francisco region.

The Golden Era of Rally Racing

October 15, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

Group B rallying fit perfectly into the mold of the eighties, but didn’t last very long.

Managing Your Tires

September 4, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

Learn about the importance of maximizing your tires’ potential.

Managing the Shift

June 29, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

Forget paddle shifters. Shifting with an old h-pattern box is the educational course we all need to take if we ever hope to be worth our salt. Downshifting, upshifting, and rev-matching are all part of the track-day driver’s lexicon, but do we really know why we do it?

Nelson Piquet, Forgotten Champion

June 3, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

With a unique combination of technical brilliance, intelligence and irreverence, Nelson Piquet was one of the eccentric breed of drivers who, due to political pressures in modern Formula One, are unlikely to be seen from again.

Braking Into the Corners

May 12, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

The “slow in, fast out” school of braking is not the only way to approach a corner, particularly if you want to achieve more speed on the track.

Perfecting the Subtle Slide: The Art of Zero Steer

April 28, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

The art of zero steer is the difference between a tiny drift that imperceptibly gets you around a corner faster than your competitor and a full-on spin out on the track. Here’s some suggestions for improving your driving technique.

Tips for the First-Time Track Rat

January 12, 2015 Tommy Parry 0

For the first time track rat, or even the fifth-timer, there is a nervous charge that motivates them to get up earlier than a stockbroker, inhale a quart of cheap coffee and head off to do battle with the laws of nature.

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