Team FC309 Embraces QuickJack

Track days put equipment to the test long before the car ever reaches the starting line. Tires need to come off, brakes need attention, suspension settings change and unexpected repairs have a habit of showing up between sessions. For U.K. race team FC309, all of that work came with another complication: their Peugeot 309 sat extremely low to the ground.

The team had already built a competitive car, earning consistently strong finishes and coverage from Fast Car Magazine in its “Tricky’s Pug 309” feature. But maintaining that level of performance meant spending plenty of time working on the Peugeot at the track, where getting a low race car off the ground could turn into a job of its own.

Team FC309

A Better Fit for a Very Low Peugeot

With a chassis sitting roughly 50 mm from the ground, FC309 didn’t have much room to work with. Getting conventional lifting equipment into position could be difficult, particularly when the team needed to make a quick tire, brake or suspension adjustment in the paddock.

QuickJack’s low-profile frames gave FC309 another option. The Peugeot’s exceptionally low stance still required the team to use slim blocks to create the necessary clearance, but once everything was positioned, QuickJack could raise the car while leaving all four wheels free. That gave the crew the access they needed without making the lifting process a major part of every repair or adjustment.

For a team constantly moving between the garage, trailer and racetrack, portability was just as important. QuickJack could travel with the rest of the race equipment, come out when the Peugeot needed attention and move out of the way when the work was finished.

Low-Profile Access

Not only do jack stands take too much time to set up, it’s hard, as the article notes, to get under a 50 mm chassis with floor jacks. QuickJack, on the other hand, slides under low-stance cars with ease (the FC309 team notes that mere 40mm blocks were still required, but only because their Pug is so low to the ground). In our experience, QuickJack’s low-profile design is a big deal for the thousands of drivers we encounter.

FC309 Spots QuickJack at the Track

FC309 didn’t discover QuickJack while shopping through a catalog. They saw another race team using one in the paddock and immediately understood what it could do for their own setup. Their reaction, according to the team, was simple: “WE WANT ONE!”

After putting QuickJack to work themselves, their enthusiasm didn’t disappear. FC309 later described it as “by far the best money we’ve spent in years.”

That says plenty about the role equipment plays at the track. Race teams have limited room for tools and gear, so whatever gets packed needs to justify the space it occupies. For FC309, QuickJack became one of those pieces of equipment by making routine access to their unusually low Peugeot easier wherever the team happened to be racing.

Work Smarter

Not every year can be a winner, but time is the one thing no one can get back. QuickJack is specifically designed to give back the time you’ve lost jacking up your car, and it makes working on cars less of a physical strain. It’s the whole “work smarter, not harder” cliché taken to the next level. No garage or track tool is “smarter” than QuickJack. Just ask Team FC309, and the countless other drivers who bring our race car lift to the track and beyond.