Welcome to the AMT Motorsport blog! I've never done one of these before so accept my apologies if it takes me a little while to get up to speed with the whole process.We decided a blog would be a better in-depth way to connect with our customers, friends, and racing fans. You can only get so much information from a picture, a short Facebook post, or 140 characters on Twitter. Sometimes long form is just the best way to connect, even in this modern era of 15 second attention spans. I'd like to be able to speak at length on...
If anyone here checks the Facebook page, you know by now that the season ended with a bang at the NASA East Coast Championships. Not a good bang. A buddy of mine was driving my car in Thursday practice and #265 got away from him at Turn 9 at Watkins Glen. Not a very forgiving place to go sideways. He hit the wall at about 45 degree angle at 33 mph and subsequently tagged the back corner in the resulting spin after the hit. He came away perfectly unharmed, all the safety gear doing exactly what it's designed to do....
June 17-19 marked round 3 of the NASA Northeast Racing season. We found ourselves back at New Jersey Motorsports Park racing at the Thunderbolt circuit. NASA NE might as well build a head quarters there since that's where 80% of the racing is this season. It's a track I enjoy very much and also where I got my first (and only) two race wins in October of last year. Week of the race: The AMT Motorsport C5Z was dropped off at 12:30am on Tuesday morning. That is indeed an odd hour to accept a race car but there was still lots of work...
April 15th marked the start of the NASA Northeast racing season at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Friday was a test and tune while Saturday and Sunday were the qualifying and sprint race days. Having made a bunch of very serious suspension changes to the car over the winter I was really excited to get the car on track for the first time since October of 2015, where I lucked in to winning my first 2 races. Apprehension was added due to the fact that I picked the car up from the shop on my way down to NJMP on Thursday...
