A Professional Approach for More Than 20 Years
Even though EFM Racing's principal, Eric Purcell has been working in racing and winning Championships since the late 1970's, EFM Racing itself really became it's own entity in 1993 running a highly successful Pro Sports 2000 Team for Team Lucas Racing, winning both the 1993 American Cities Racing League driver and team titles and the SCCA National Championships that year. Further success in Sports 2000 lead to EFM Racing being hired by the Carbir factory to refine their Sports 2000 car and run their factory race team. This lead to another ACRL title in 1996 for Jeff Glenn, and also to EFM's continued involvement with Carbir to design a new challenger for the open-wheel USF2000 series.
This highly successful F2000 design lead to race victories and a close championship battle for driver Andy Lally prior to him moving up the ladder to Formula Atlantic and later into Sports Car racing where he still makes a living these days.
This highly successful F2000 design lead to race victories and a close championship battle for driver Andy Lally prior to him moving up the ladder to Formula Atlantic and later into Sports Car racing where he still makes a living these days.
This highly successful F2000 design lead to race victories and a close championship battle for driver Andy Lally prior to him moving up the ladder to Formula Atlantic and later into Sports Car racing where he still makes a living these days.
EFM racing continued to have success in both open wheel and sports cars throughout the next decade, and Purcell Race Engineering was added as a subsidiary of EFM to provide race engineering consulting to a variety of professional teams. These teams included Walker Racing (Formula BMW and Formula Atlantic), AIM Autosport (Pro Mazda and Daytona Prototype) and Team GDT (Pro Mazda). In 2008, John Edwards won the Pro Mazda Championship title with Purcell Race Engineering providing their services to AIM Autosport.
EFM racing continued to have success in both open wheel and sports cars throughout the next decade, and Purcell Race Engineering was added as a subsidiary of EFM to provide race engineering consulting to a variety of professional teams. These teams included Walker Racing (Formula BMW and Formula Atlantic), AIM Autosport (Pro Mazda and Daytona Prototype) and Team GDT (Pro Mazda). In 2008, John Edwards won the Pro Mazda Championship title with Purcell Race Engineering providing their services to AIM Autosport.
Purcell Race Engineering continued to consult in the Pro Mazda Series for the next several years with AIM Autosport. The next several seasons saw the team working mostly with drivers making the move straight out of Karting and into the Pro Mazda Championship. It was out of this experience that the curriculum for EFM Racing's K2C program was born.
Currently EFM Racing is largely supporting it's K2C Karting drivers in the west-coast based Formula Car Challenge series, and Purcell Race Engineering continues to consult to a variety of professional race teams in Series such as Pro Mazda, USF2000 and the Tudor Sports Car Championship.
Currently EFM Racing is largely supporting it's K2C Karting drivers in the west-coast based Formula Car Challenge series, and Purcell Race Engineering continues to consult to a variety of professional race teams in Series such as Pro Mazda, USF2000 and the Tudor Sports Car Championship.
In support of JDC Motorsports, Eric Purcell of EFM Racing and Purcell Race Engineering had the opportunity to work with two great young drivers at this year's Chris Griffiths Mazda Road to Indy test at the famed Indianapolis Raceway on the GP course. Dev Gore and Ryan Norberg were selected as the Mazda Road to Indy driver advancement program winners, and the prize was this two day test in JDC Motorsport's USF2000 cars. The same cars that have won USF2000 Championships and were most recently piloted by EFM Racing driver Tazio Ottis in the 2016 USF2000 series.
Dev and Ryan, while both accomplished kart racers, had very limited experience in race cars. As a matter of fact, Ryan had never driven a race car before! Both drivers truly impressed during the test, and Eric Purcell noted "It was truly an honor and privilege to work with two such talented, dedicated young drivers so early in their career. It was a real treat, and they made incredible progress in just the two days".
Ryan posted the photo below to the JDC Motorsports Facebook page, and we can't thank him enough for the kind words.
Dev and Ryan, while both accomplished kart racers, had very limited experience in race cars. As a matter of fact, Ryan had never driven a race car before! Both drivers truly impressed during the test, and Eric Purcell noted "It was truly an honor and privilege to work with two such talented, dedicated young drivers so early in their career. It was a real treat, and they made incredible progress in just the two days".
Ryan posted the photo below to the JDC Motorsports Facebook page, and we can't thank him enough for the kind words.
