When I first met Doug face-to-face earlier this year at the Sweet 16 2.0 race while shooting photos of Justin Cyrnek’s X275 car, I was impressed with his demeanor and enthusiasm for racing and the community in general. With a staff of 15 race enthusiasts-and growing-Motion Raceworks is at the forefront of developing unique products to solve elemental problems related to the construction of race cars. In 2019 they moved into a new, larger location in Dewitt, Iowa, and added several CNC machines to keep up with manufacturing demand. The decision to manufacture a turbo flange with mounting points to provide easy locating onto the chassis-a simple $1,000 investment-turned into a shelf of products in Doug’s bedroom, which over time turned into him quitting his sales job and moving the company into its first home in Davenport, Iowa. Although they had each been playing with their own race machines over the years and designing products for use on them, they had never manufactured a product for public consumption. About four years ago, that’s exactly what happened with Doug Cook, Andy Cook, Brian Jack, and the rest of the team over at Motion Raceworks. “It would be great if we could solve X problem,” which is then refined and sorted out to become an actual product. Businesses often start out with a single idea.
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