CNC SINGLE-SPINDLE
Racing to
High Tech Turning
A manufacturer of race car components gets higher RPM, quicker rapids
and a sophisticated control with a new lineup of turning machines.
ittle signifcance is given by most to the manufacturing origin of race car steering components. Still,
Wyoming—the land of boom-and-bust energy towns,
cowboys, cattle skulls, tumbleweed and sagebrush—hardly
leaps to mind during conversations of NASCAR, Australian
V8 Supercars or Formula Le Mans racing. But that's where
at least one key supplier to these series has set up shop.
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PRODUCTION MACHINING :: NOVEMBER 2013
Edited by Chris Felix
Tony Woodward founded Woodward Machine
Corporation in 1978 in a Maryland/Washington D.C.
suburb as a job shop specializing in race car fabrication and general repair. Near the beginning of the
80s, he dreamed up a rack and pinion steering system
for dirt track stock cars and started producing it on
manual equipment, mostly rebuilt and salvaged from