Normally, I wouldn’t write a “year in review” post if there was no year to review, but Things Have Happened.
Going into 2022, I was expecting to do seven race week-ends (15 races) and finally have the season I’d been hoping for with the Mustang.
Although both Group 1 (SPO) and the one-hour enduro were options, I elected to only run ST for what was turning out to be my last sprint week-end of the season (other commitments) Looking at the entries for Group 4, with loads of GT1 and GT2 cars, plus some fast ITE cars, the cars in … Read More “The Dash XXXVIII” »
(How is a race in mid-July my first of the season?!)
After the twin attack of COVID and the challenges of a new car in 2020, my expectation for 2021 was that it would line out to be the year I’d intended 2020 to be. Annoyingly, it was more of a 2020 redux and so it goes…
One of the biggest shortcomings I’ve always felt I have as a racecar driver is my discomfort with an “oversteer-y” (loose, tail-happy, etc) car. It’s not that I haven’t generally been able to handle the situation when it crops up, but more that A) I don’t have a lot of confidence that I’ll react appropriately … Read More “One-day RWD rally class” »
Well, that was brief…
When I wrote my year-end report in 2013, I had plans (or maybe just intentions) to finally get back on the track more often in 2014. I wanted to win more SPU races and improve my overall pace so I could get out in front of the PRO3 cars. Basically, settle into the car and … Read More “2015 racing year in review” »
(preceded by the Northwest Mini-Enduro Series 2-hour season finale) For reasons I won’t bother going into (ugh, money, what else?), I’d only planned on doing one race in 2015, so that I could keep my car number and primarily to keep my license current. I had talked to a team about running the fall enduro … Read More “8 Hours of the Cascades” »
“I’m just keeping my license current” is a terrible reason to go racing…