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.
After updating the suspension (Bilstein), tires (245mm Hoosier R7) and brakes (Powerbrake 4 piston BBK) the best our 2001 BMW could do in TTD trim was a 1:27.6 lap at a NASA event in March 2016 - missing the old TTD track record by a tenth. We came back after some suspension tweaks (MCS TT2) and fresh Hoosier tires and got down to a 1:25.0 at a test day in Nov 2016.
With a custom full length header, exhaust and CAI (but no tune) we returned with NASA in March 2017 to smash the old TTD track record by nearly 4 seconds, with this 1:23.789 lap. No other TTD competition that day but it was still fun racing against the record books!