The Power of Community

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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...
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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...
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How to set a track record at Limerock

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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...
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NASA Northeast Season Opener at NJMP

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Welcome to the first racing blog post of 2019!  On May 4th and 5th we found ourselves at NJMP Lightning with a whopping 10 cars signed up to race in ST2.  Season was sure to start off with a bang (a good one, hopefully) bringing lots of rookies and seasoned vets alike to the track.  I'll re-cap a couple small items since our last race at Watkins Glen before we get to the fresh stuff at NJMP. ...The Past 7 Months... After finishing second place in both races at WGI in September I got the car out two more times to...
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Finspeed Wheels now available thru AMT Motorsport

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TL:DR AMT Motorsport is proud to be added as the newest full service dealer for Finspeed Wheels based out of Austin, Texas.  Finspeed offers the finest traditionally forged monoblock motorsport wheels by utilizing only the best American materials and craftsmanship.  Their product and process aligns itself perfectly with the offerings of AMT Motorsport. The entire Finspeed product line will now be available thru AMT and for all vehicles.   Why Finspeed? There are hundreds of wheel manufacturers out there.  It's not difficult to become a dealer for many of them and many companies like ours are happy to offer whatever product...
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