Right after the Mid Ohio ITFest, I decided to run the opposite way and do a weekend in Daytona. While I was at Mid Ohio we were talking about competition, and one of my friends said “you’re at the point where you’re going to have to search out competition to get better instead of just being complacent”. Made sense for me to go to Daytona and fight with some of the best that the SE had to offer 
Daytona was awesome. I have a whole another level of respect for the NASCAR boys now. There are bumps on the banking. These make the car bounce up and down at 130mph and sort of feel odd. I couldn’t imagine this at 200 while side by side. Them boys have some brass balls. I’ve never been there before, and after missing the test day on Friday, I had to learn the track in my first qualifying session. Like in Mid Ohio, I picked up time every session, and ended up running very fast on Sunday, being the fastest in ITA.
I had a great time and a great race with Kip VanSteenburg. In the end, Daytona is a power track, and the ITS cars are much faster then we are in the straights. Unfortunately, they are slower in the turns. I got really f-ed by a couple of RX-7s during the races, to where they just parked it in front of me in the turns and I lost all my momentum. Once that happens at Daytona, the cars in front of you are GONE. Ended up losing to Kip on Saturday about a few seconds, and then on Sunday by 0.3 after a GREAT race. The 2 part race video from Sunday is below, enjoy!
Part 1
You can view the full HD footage by clicking here or just play the smaller embedded version below
Part 2
You can view the full HD footage by clicking here or just play the smaller embedded version below