COMPETITION ENGINEERING

Since 1954 ©

Who We Are

The Original COMPETITION ENGINEERING is a contract research and development company that was started in 1954 as an offshoot of the J.S. Inskip-Brewster Body Company of New York , NY . and the Charles Wear Automotive Company of Boston , MA . Inskip Motors- Brewster Body Company was the U.S. manufacturer of Rolls-Royce automobiles from 1920 to 1938. COMPETITION ENGINEERING began as a race prep shop for imported sports cars. These included MG, Austin , Lotus, Healy, Aston Martin, Formula and Sports Racing cars. Winning regional, national, and international driver’s and constructor’s championships with people like Sterling Moss, Phil Hill, David Fenton, Jim Clark, Mark Donohue and other noted sports car drivers. COMPETITION ENGINEERING became one of the best-known race shops in the Northeast Atlantic states in the early 1950s through the 1970s. COMPETITION ENGINEERING is also the oldest performance automotive consulting firm in the U.S. As a sideline of building race cars, the company started building Go-Karts and kart tracks about 1958 and still does to this day.

In 1970 COMPETITION ENGINEERING turned its attention to the growing sport of Drag Racing. Some of our customers included teams such as Sox & Martin, Don Nicholson, Ronnie Manchester, Richard Kimble, Anthony DeCarlo, Warren Johnson. And because of design innovations developed for use in drag racing just about everyone has benefited from the company's touch. As everywhere COMPETITION ENGINEERING set records, invented products and initiated new classes. The company has set standards by which all safety and traction devices produced today are judged. The company invented Pro-Street and became the largest manufacturer of quality, hard-core drag racing components in the United States by 1978 and worldwide by 1982.

With COMPETITION ENGINEERING’s entrance into the International Show Car Association competition, it created a new venue to showcase customer’s products and its own. Since 1972, the company has won every car show championship it entered with private customer vehicles and corporate sponsored displays. COMPETITION ENGINEERING has built or supplied custom cars and race cars for heads of state, movies, charities, TV shows, actors and actresses, large and small corporations and auto enthusiasts from all corners of society today.

In 1983 COMPETITION ENGINEERING sold its parts manufacturing facilities and returned to research, development, race prep services and consulting. Our quality of service is perfect for automakers interested in high profile racing marketplace as well as for private and corporate teams with an eye for perfection and public acceptance. COMPETITION ENGINEERING has been involved in almost all areas of motorsports from Go-Karts, to SCCA, NHRA, IHRA, IMSA, since their early beginnings.

COMPETITION ENGINEERING has quietly worked behind the scenes with many recognized giants in motorsports, preferring to maintain a silent partner arrangement within a given team structure to give that team an unfair advantage. This allows the company to work quickly and quietly within a sponsor’s budget to accomplish results not ordinarily possible with a team working under the competition’s scrutiny. The names of Drivers, Crew Chiefs, and Teams that have driven for, been clients of, sponsored, or just helped by the owners and staff of Competition Engineering are well known.

What We Do

Another area in which COMPETITION ENGINEERING excels is in the research, planning and development of motorsports facilities and sanctioning bodies worldwide. From the company's earliest days when it was the racing arm of the Inskip-Wear Automotive holdings, the company and it’s staff worked overtime behind the scenes and sometimes directing the scenes of a particular project.

Some of motoracing’s favorite sons (and daughters) got their start, help or profited in some way from one of America ’s premier automobile family. The Sports Car Club of America, American Karting Associations, the National Hot Rod Association, and the International Motor Sports Association all benefited from input and support from the family and friends that make up the Inskip-Wear Automotive foundation.

This foundation has been used my many to build on since 1903 when Charles Wear opened an Oldsmobile dealership in Danvers, Massachusetts, and John S. Inskip operated the Rolls-Royce factory in Springfield, Massachusetts and Brewster Body Company in Long Island City, NY starting in 1920.

After the Second World War J.S. Inskip became a dealer/distributor of the favorite car of service men returning home from Europe , the MG. To promote the sales of the fragile little sports cars and give the gentlemen of the day a forum to discuss the sporting aspects of these cars and ones like it, a club was formed. The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) was born. Soon after that, a race was proposed by Cameron Argetsinger to be held in upstate New York near Seneca Lake . But to become a full member in the SCCA you had to own a proper sports car. Inskip Motors sold Cameron an MG, the first ever SCCA race and Watkins Glen is born.

In 1952 J.S. Inskip opened a satellite operation in Providence , Rhode Island which sold cars imported or distributed by the Inskip Motor Company in New York City , New York . In 1954 the son-in-laws of J.S. Inskip decided to change the name of the competition department of Inskip Motors to COMPETITION ENGINEERING. Soon after a separate building was opened to specialize on racecar preparation and sports racing prototype development and testing.

All through the 1950s and 1960s the Inskip-Wear families proposed, promoted, designed, and help organize and build some of the earliest race tracks in the US . Many race tracks today benefited either directly or indirectly by the support they received from this automotive enthusiast family. This group has built, rebuilt or saved race tracks nationwide and continues this practice even today.

Since 1954, COMPETITION ENGINEERING still owned and operated by the same family that started it all, has done one thing; over engineered, over planned, over tested and over researched every area of the motorsports industry within which we compete. We study hard; we take time to learn how to play the game; then we spend twice the time and energy it takes to be competitive in any class

          Race Cars that Win Shows,

          Show Cars that Win Races,

              Tracks that Make Money ! ! !

Stay tuned as the next generation of MOTORSPORTS starts where the first one did...........

             ..............at The Original COMPETITION ENGINEERING.