Racing Ready

After a 2 week hiatus, I went back to visit Alamo Karts.  On every other Tuesday night they run a Racing League.  Tonight was the second of 8 competative go-rounds, called the 2008 Fall League.   I got there a bit before 7pm & talked with the Manager, Ann Wilson.  I found out that she had helped [...]

Andy Hollis (a very active member of Texas SPOKES Sports Car Club) is THE man. Here’s the scoop, courtesy of the SCCA website: TOPEKA, Kan. (Sept. 13, 2008) – Andy Hollis, of Austin, Texas, captured his third Hawk Super Challenge win of the season and swept both class honors and season Super Challenge honors at The Tire [...]

At last week’s SPOKES autocross, I met up with Robert.  Apparently I had met him & his car at my first autocross observation in Pearsall, Texas, last June. Robert’s Triumph Spitfire is a strikingly prepared historic piece of vintage iron.  Here’s what Robert told me about his Spitfire (he spoke like a proud papa, as he should). [...]

As mentioned yesterday, while observing last Sunday’s SPOKES autocross, I witnessed some individuals working on special projects. Chuck, who drives a Mini Cooper S - members of the SPOKES club have nicknamed this the ‘clown car’ - was working on such a project.  He’s in the red hat, below.                     [...]

The usual autocross activity is doing your best to get through the course as quickly as possible, without taking out any cones.  At times, you can observe competitors trying out new things, maybe experimenting with something they are working on.   Well, that was the case at this past Sunday’s SPOKES autocross.  I visited with 2 [...]

SPOKES President Rick to the rescue!  If you didn’t notice the comment on yesterday’s blog, here’s what Rick rightly had to say: Hi Dan, This is the link for the SCCA Solo National Championships: http://www.scca.com/event.aspx?hub=3&event=12143 The event you refer to in your blog (”the runoffs”) is the SCCA road race equivalent of our Nationals… -Rick WHOOPS [...]

Update (September 11, 2008): Please note, about 2/3′s of this information is incorrect!  The SCCA Solo Nationals are from 9/13-19, 2008.  Corrrected information can be read at: SCCA Nationals Details, Corrected! My apologies – Racing Ready Dan The “Nationals”, officially known as the SCCA National Championship Runoffs are being held at Heartland Park Topeka, Kansas, [...]