Every car in any given NASCAR race has an engine with high horsepower, a transmission, and a chassis fine tuned to perfection. Often you cannot tell the difference except for the colored blur that flies past you. The drivers are skillful and well trained. All of the supporting cast of technicians and pit crew members are well trained and the best at their specialty. The cars run on the same track at nearly the same speed. So what makes a winner with everything so similar?

It is a situation where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. The winner takes common machinery and people and wills uncommon performance. This intangible difference can be the single ingredient that makes a winner instead of an also ran! A horizontal milling machine is commonly used to manufacture the high performance components that make up these finely tuned racing machines. The difference in making the best precision parts is often as simple as making sure your CNC horizontal machining center is an Okuma. You learn to rely upon proven performance that Okuma delivers every shift, week after week, month after month, year after year.