Terry Fair is an amateur racing driver with 32 recorded laps across 15 different vehicles on LapMeta, averaging 2.1 laps per car. Fair brings three decades of racing and engineering experience to amateur motorsport, holding a mechanical engineering technology degree from Texas A&M University. His professional engineering background spans metallurgy, mechanical equipment design, control systems, and wireless devices—technical expertise directly applicable to understanding vehicle dynamics and performance optimization.
Fair is the owner of Vorshlag Motorsports, a leading manufacturer of high-end suspension components including camber-caster adjustment plates, spherical shock mounts, and other suspension components. This dual role—business owner and active racer—keeps him connected to both product development and real-world testing. He usually campaigns one of the Vorshlag race cars at 25+ competition events annually, often co-driving with his wife Amy, demonstrating that amateur motorsport can be both serious pursuit and shared passion.
His LapMeta data shows 19 laps at 1.7 CCW, 4 laps at 1.7 CW, and 2 laps CCW configuration, with the 15-vehicle portfolio spanning diverse platforms. Fair actively participates in autocrossing, open track events, time trials, wheel-to-wheel road racing, and drag racing—remarkably diverse motorsport involvement demonstrating curiosity about all forms of competition. He and Amy drove their Vorshlag Motorsports Mustang to TT3 wins at Motorsports Ranch, showcasing consistent competitive success.
Fair exemplifies the engineer-racer archetype: combining theoretical knowledge from formal education with practical experience from decades of competition and business operations. His suspension company allows direct application of racing insights to product development, while testing those products in actual competition validates design decisions. With 32 laps across 15 vehicles, Terry Fair represents the complete amateur racer who integrates engineering expertise, business acumen, and competitive passion into comprehensive motorsport involvement.
We brought our brand new 2023 BRZ out to a NASA weekend to get a baseline stock lap at the ECR 2.7 CCW course, so we could compare times to this later. We had run our C6 in TT2 on Saturday but had brake issues, so we brought the BRZ out on Sunday to run in TT5 (Terry, 1 session) and HPDE4 (Amy). We started at the back of the 22 car TT grid so we wouldn't hold anyone up, in what should be the slowest car of the session.
Turns out there were a lot of cars that wanted to start behind us, then go like hell on lap 1 and bunch up with the back of the field, so our first hot lap was highly compromised. One of the TT6 Miatas also spun off track ahead of us, then tried like mad to get back around us to play "lead follow" games with another TT6 Miata. They held us up for 3 laps, and we had to settle for the 2:16.451 lap with some traffic ahead slowing us up a bit.
One of the more frustrating Time Trial weekends in years, with far too much clownery on both days in every TT session. At this event it was literally impossible to get a clear lap in any session in either car on either day, even in the 4th quickest car of the weekend when gridded up front. I look forward to the changes promised by the TT director for 2023!