Race cars run hot. Combine that with most events happen in the warmer months of the year if you live in a more Northernly state, and you've got a recipe for overheating in the car. Air conditioning isn't really a great option, and that goes out the...
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Updated 3 days 56 min ago
Coming hot off the heels of a succesfull weekend at ORP with a new PB I was pretty excited for the upcomming time attack event with OnGrid at the Ridge Motorsports Park. I knew I had a few things to sort out, but for the most part the car was...
Updated 1 week 3 days ago
Finally, back to ORP! This is in my opinion the most fun and simultaneously challenging track on the west coast. Blind corners and crests are everywhere. Off camber? It has it! Camber cut all the way into a hillside? It has three of them back to...
Updated 1 week 3 days ago
So after my last event at PIR, I was happy the car was better but concerned I'd created new problems to go with the ones I'd solved. While the transmission was together and everything seemed happy... I now had ABS issues and power issues. The power...
Updated 1 month 1 week ago
So documenting each and every single track day, while writing about my Corvette is going to become a bit too much for me... so I'm just going to document the chunks of time inbetween major lemons races!TNIA - May 23rdEarly in the summer (or late in...
Updated 1 month 1 day ago
Leading Up to The EventThis track day was an exciting one! Not in the sense anything at the event regarding the Corvette itself was exciting... but in the sense that just 24 days prior I had blown up the torque tube on the Corvette at my 43rd track...
Updated 2 months 3 days ago
Welp, track day 43 did not go as planned. Coming into the event, I was thinking I'd be getting some data on the new to me Vitour P1 tires along with in general getting used to driving them on the track. Maybe even set a nice PB since the weather was...
Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago
The first track day of the year for PNW'ers tends to be a big deal, as folks have had all winter to wrench on their car. That's also a long time to build up some rust with. I was no exception to all of this, and so this post will be a bit longer...
Updated 3 months 1 week ago
First race is in the books! With a lot of work and effort we pulled off a pretty amazing rookie debut with no penalties / black flags, no off track mishaps or spins, and we managed to finish 4th in B class (out of 14 cars) and 12th overall (out of...
Updated 4 months 1 week ago
As my C5 Corvette project ownership carries on longer, the Corvette is quickly becoming less and less of a street car and more and more of an outright track sled. At first for safety I simply trusted just them OEM roll protection....