Protech Racing Services

Welcome to Protech Services

I'm Mike Ogren, owner of Protech Racing Services. I have been racing for 30+ years. I started autocrossing with the Sports Car Club Of America (SCCA) in a Pinto. Many stock class wins and some college time later, I raced and won a few class championships in stock cars and ice racing. My racing expertise has been data analysis , and low speed aerodynamics. Most recently, I have designed , built and flown a tandem wing, Ultralight airplane.

My thousands of miles as a "Performance Driving School" instructor has led to many race coaching, car setup, and crewchief jobs. I have set lap records at Sebring International Raceway, and have helped many drivers go faster, along with offering setup suggestions for the car. This amount of track time led to the renting out of track cars and race cars, usually VW ITB class cars. I have raced VWs of some kind for about 20 years, always near the front of the pack.

My Son, Michael, has gotten me back into the racing scene. The most 15 year old friendly racing is Go karts and oval track. We raced karts for a while, when he was younger, but the speed and safety considerations, along with out of control parents have led us to take up " Ministock" racing . The local track is Citrus County Speedway, about 1/2 hour from my shop.

As a parent of a young racer, I want the best chance for him to suceed. As a result of this desire/obsession, we have evolved our race car to be the fastest in the class for 2008.

The result of our relative speed, with the smallest engine was that the track added 50# to our car. This forced further developement of my dynamic rear steer system to get back the dominant speed. Alas, for every three wins, the track adds 25# and we are now firmly in the top three speed wise. The racing is very close now , with the top three cars all within the same tenth of a second lap times.

I will soon have a setup/preparation guide to duplicate the success of our car. I believe in total preparation of every area of a race car. Even the seemingly simple "Ministock" or Bomber Class.

The guide will include VW specific items, both in the chasis and power delivery system.

Michael is now attending the University of Central Florida. His major is Mechanical Engineering. He is also co-driving a Birkin Lotus 7 in D mod at SCCA events, and Road Racing a Spec Miata. One of our next goals is to fine tune the Miata. The driver is better than the car right now.