TL:DR - The motorsports community is filled with the most generous, caring, and supportive people you will ever meet in your life. This article speaks to some specific instances of people who have affected the life of myself and my family after my near-fatal accident in May 2021. I released a documentary about my accident called "Survival" in February of 2022 and it was passed around quickly throughout the ranks of the motorsport community. The support for the video and my message of safety has been overwhelmingly positive. Instructing, driving-legend, and all around awesome guy Ross Bentley saw it and...
The new Garmin Catalyst was released to much hype and fanfare a little over a month ago. The online videos made it seem super cool, easy, and intuitive and an endorsement from Ross Bentley said he instantly shaved .9 seconds at a track he was driving over a period of two days. I love Ross, he's a Pro's Pro, and that was pretty much the only endorsement I needed. I immediately bought one and anxiously awaited the time I'd be able to get it on track and start shaving a second at places I already held class and overall track records. ...
TL:DR - I never had a huge desire to go to New York Safety Track until I saw videos of some fast laps of the place on YouTube. From what I could glean from some rather shaky videos the standing car record of 1:28.92 set by a Viper ACR could be improved upon. It's not a horsepower track and I figured with a little less weight, in spite of a nearly 250hp deficit, I could probably get the job done. It took two tries, but on the second attempt I nabbed the record with a 1:27.81 lap. Here's the story. And here's...
TL:DR - I always wrote off those silly gas pedal extensions as tools for old guys who couldn't figure out how to heel/toe. That or they were for waxers who wanted to dress up their interior - right after they got done air brushing a mural on the underside of their hood. Once I made one to accommodate my brother in my own car I realized there's an actual verifiable performance advantage on track. Pedal Placement The Corvette engineers did many things right when they scrapped the C4 for the completely redesigned C5 in 1997. One thing they could have considered...
TL:DR - Raced with NASA Northeast at Limerock on July 12 and 13. I won both races Saturday and Sunday, set an ST2 track record, and won TTU both days by over a second. I was somewhere around 5 seconds faster this year than I was 2 years ago. Here's how I did it. "#Winning" - Charlie Sheen This is the second version of this blog entry. I just hit "delete" on a couple hours of work which was going to be my typical too-long race recap from the NASA event at Limerock from July 2019. I started writing blogs about...
