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Mitchell Transmissions Sponsors Sim Racing Competition


Mitchell Transmissions Sponsors Sim Racing Competition

Recently, Open-Wheels platform has informed that that Mitchell Transmissions will become the presenting sponsor for the premiere Open-Wheels.com 500 Mile Race, scheduled for November 17, 2019.


The transmission repair shop has become the 1-st known partner for this important event in the racing world, which is planned to be organized on a yearly basis. Led by site owner Tanner Watkins, the race is contested on the popular iRacing Motorsports Simulations platform available to online “sim racers” from all over the globe. Based on the real 500-mile competition organized in Indianapolis each May, the Open-Wheels competition will give “sim racers” a unique opportunity to feel like real drivers of the real open-wheel racing.


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Mr. Watkins pointed out the importance of the fact that the 1-st presenting sponsor for the 500 Mile Race event will be the team of dedicated professionals in the transmission repair business. This endeavor will be the mutually beneficial endeavor for both parties.

Thanks to more than thirty years of practical experience, Mitchell Transmissions has gained recognition as a reliable trouble-shooter when it comes to diagnostics and repair of transmissions. The repair shop employs highly-skilled and experienced specialists who know what it takes to fix transmission issues of any complexity level promptly and efficiently and to bring their customers back on the road in no time.




Picture from the JEGS Super Quick Series


Moreover, Mitchell Transmission are not strangers to racing competitions, as they not only rebuild and install different types of transmissions, but also build and maintain racing gearboxes, mainly drag racing. In addition, the company is already a sponsor of the JEGS Super Quick Series. As a company that is familiar with the racing world, Mitchell Transmission is happy to become a part of the upcoming sim racing competition. Mitchell Transmission sees a lot of potential of this event and will do its best to attract strong attention of racing admirers to this event. The 500 Mile Race will be televised live by the well-known telecaster RaceSpot TV.

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.