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Going into any autox season is usually a pretty exciting time for me… and with a brand new car that (at the time) was just 6 months old, there was a whole other level of anticipation involved. I was going from a 160-ish HP, FWD, naturally aspirated car with quite a few suspension modifications to a 100% stock, 265 HP, AWD, turbo monster. Time to throw out the rule book. Everything I had learned in [...]
It’s been 2 weeks since we closed up the first event of the season. It’ll be about 5 weeks until we hit event #3 (6/19 at the Arnot Mall). And let’s hope that after those 5 weeks, we get a little bit better weather. To say that the 5th event was a wet one would be quite an understatement. It was a soggy one. It was beyond soggy actually. It was whatever that next level [...]
It’s a new season. With a new car. And…. not much else has changed. Well… one other thing has changed. We lost a great competitor and friend a couple weeks ago. And the event was not the same without him. We definitely missed you, Tom. But Tom wouldn’t want us to stop the show on account of him. So we proceeded as normally as we could. And turns out, the event was great. We had [...]
It’s nearly time for the 2011 racing season to fully kick off… with that comes a few events at WGI, as usual. The schedule hasn’t changed a whole lot from last year – though the IndyCar (and SCCA World Challenge) series is noticeably absent in 2011. Everything else is present an accounted for. I did this recently for the F1 schedule and thought I’d do the same for WGI. I have a very simple event/date [...]
…then I don’t know who would be. At the moment I’m referring specifically to this Autoblog article, where the President of Ferrari states that the new teams in F1 should leave F1 and drop down to the lower-rung GP2 series (which is often considered a “feeder” series for drivers looking to get into the top-tier Formula 1). A little bit of back story here… this past year, the FIA allowed a few new teams to [...]
Forgive my ramblings here… but whenever I think of what I want to be “when I grow up” – this is what always goes through my head. They say that if you try hard enough, you can have or be anything… I disagree. Not that someone should not be optimistic about things – because there are a lot of things people could do if they were to try. It’s just that the list is not [...]
For those of you that have not been paying attention (or don’t follow me on Twitter), the Glen Region hosted their second Solo event of the 2010 season yesterday (the first that I have been able to attend). The event was held at our largest available venue, the Seneca Army Depot airstrip. We typically expect fast, fun, and tricky courses here. Yesterday did not disappoint. Jen and I both went up and both raced. The [...]
No, really, why bother? If the FIA is going to make teams change things for not being in the “spirit” of the rules but still within the letter of the rule, why even bother having rules? IMO, the FIA is basically saying “Yes, you followed the rule that we wrote – but we meant for you to do this instead.” So F-ING write it that way! Specifically I’m referring to the latest news that McLaren, [...]
When it comes to autox, I would call it one of the very few things that I truly enjoy doing anytime I get to do it. Even on a bad day I’m still having a good time. Normally every year you would try to improve in some way – whether it is the car or the driver or both. Usually you try for both. It’s common that many drivers spend their off season buying parts, [...]
I suppose I didn’t officially post anything on our most recent event. So here you go… We had a rallyx event outside of Syracuse (in Weedsport). Jen and I were up around 4-4:30am this past Sunday to drive 2 hours to the event. The course(s) was soft and rutted from the previous week’s rain. Nearly not drivable… and in hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have run at all. They did at least have some equipment available [...]
