Racing Ready

During Thanksgiving, as on other holidays, I catch up on long distance family.  So yesterday, I spoke with my sister and we got talking about this blog.  My sister is not at all a computer user, nor an Internet surfer, so I had some PC/Internet concepts to explain. Once my sister got the gist of [...]

In the spirit of Black Friday, today I spent my non-shopping time adding to & upgrading my Products & CG-Lock pages. So far I have added 4 companies (on my Products my  page) where you can browse through to see how you can effectively upgrade your competition vehicle or your daily driver: At Discount Parts [...]

On this Thanksgiving Day, in addition to thanks for family, health & friends, I give thanks for amateur motorsports. We have many choices, even in these times of economic challenge, to make use of our free time.  Our culture allows us to select many activities to do as we define ourselves through our free time [...]

When explaining the details of the last SPOKES autocross this year, I failed to mention some additional information.  The guys from the SPOKES club have an interesting sense of humor. The traffic cones used on an autocross course layout can serve multiple purposes.  Look at the detailed close-up of the course map below.  See the [...]

I had fun at the SPOKES autocross, on 11/23/2008. Instead of abusing my beastly Great White Whale (as I’ve nicknamed my 2000 Nissan Maxima SE), I was able to throttle (pun intended) Jerry’s stock 1990 Mazda Miata.  If you don’t know, I first met Jerry (my autocross mentor) at the first autocross I attended this [...]

Yesterday I arrived at the last SPOKES autocross event for this year.  Getting there early I was able to appreciate the logistics of the physical site set up for an autocross.  I was at the San Antonio Raceway at 7:30am, and, with only about 10 people there, the trailer & the basic set up of [...]

Tomorrow will be the last SPOKES autocross event (#10) of this year.  It should be a good event, what with many people getting in their last chance to compete & have autocross fun till next year.  As of this posting, there are 57 people pre-registered at AXWare Systems – Online Race Management.  There will be [...]