So its been a loong time since I’ve posted on the blog, over 2 months! I’ve had a couple of races over a few months, and overall been super busy. Lots of changes in everything from a new position at work to personal life stuff. Lets just say that I’m living “by myself” now
I’ve gone through the car after Daytona and performed some maintenance and a few upgrades to get it ready for the next race. Its the SIC, which will determine the SE year end champion. Right now, Kip VanSteenburg and myself are tied in points, so its winner take all at this next race. Only “performance” upgrade is to redo the alignment and corner weights to optimize the car for the next race at Roebling Road in October. I’ve also added a fire system instead of a plain extinguisher and replaced wear items like axles and wheel bearings so the car is in tip top shape for the important weekend. I’m hoping that with this new handling setup and the new rear swaybar, the car will be even more awesome then it was earlier in the year where I beat Kip at Roebling twice.
After that its onto the ARRC the first weekend in November. The car will be absolutely perfect for this race and I’m really looking forward to it. It should be faster then it was last year (added splitter, swaybar, etc) and I know I can drive the car a bit better then last year. Hopefully I can walk away from this even National Champ. We’ll see what happens.
Coming up next weekend though is the Petit Lemans at Road Atlanta. The ALMS is in town, along with support races from Speed World Challenge and the VW Jetta Cup. My friend AJ Nealy is racing in the VW Jetta cup and I’ll be there cheering for him like crazy. I’m also on a photo assignment from Grassroots Motorsports, so I’ll have my camera, an assortment of rocking lenses, and be shooting all weekend. Should have a few thousand shots probably and will post the best here after the weekend. Can’t wait!