Corsa Instruments Information

Corsa Instruments, Inc. was created in 1991 by Erik Kauppi and Sinisa Mandich, racers who are also engineers. They had looked around for a good affordable data system for their own race team and couldn't find one. So they made their own. And after far more work than it usually takes to build a whole race car, they had a working data logger that was good enough to sell to other teams. Corsa has been in the business of racing data acquisition systems since 1991. Over the years we have added many new features and sensors to our data acquisition system, doing whatever was necessary to meet our customers needs. Every time we go to the track, whether with a customer team or some of our friends, we learn something new. 1991 - Working with a Late Model stock car team at a local track. When we got out the laptop and started downloading data from the car, we sure got a lot of stares! Back then our first prototype, and an 8086 laptop running DOS, was high tech indeed. 1993 - First Corsa system sold to a customer. Thanks, Al! 1995 - Corsa has their first exhibit at the Performance Racing Industry show in Columbus, Ohio. Weve been a regular at PRI ever since. 1996 - First Corsa system sold to a tractor puller. Though our system was developed for a different type of racing, we made it flexible enough to handle applications we hadnt considered. This basic design decision paid off very well and Corsa is now the leader in data acquisition systems for diesel tractor pullers. 1997 - Partnership formed with William C. Mitchell Software. Combining Corsa electronics with Bills software and experience brought a new level of sophistication at a very reasonable price to SCCA road racers. 1999 - The newly formed Grand American Road Racing (Grand-Am) asks Corsa to design a datalogger which all cars in certain classes will be required to use. The datalogger records turbo boost pressure and other variables to make sure the teams are within the rules. Corsa becomes the official supplier of compliance data recorders to Grand Am. Certain ...