Racing Ready

A couple of weeks ago a sudden hail storm came through Austin, Texas.  It caught 2 of my autocross buddies by surprise & did extensive cosmetic damage to their well-regarded autocross steeds. Chris has an 1999 10th Anniversary Edition Mazda Miata that had been very well prepared.  It caused me to drool whenever I saw [...]

Like many local autocross enthusiasts, I didn’t attend today’s SASCA event #4. Diane, the Miata 10AE autocrosser, took this nice shot I cropped to place here – thanks miatagirl!  Unfortunately, her Miata was under the weather (a small electrical fire due to the post cat O2 sensor lead laying on the cat and the coil) [...]

Yesterday, for change of pace some of the SASCA club members & I visited a different venue. This was a local “cruise night” at a renowned burger joint, Biff Buzby’s Burgers.  Every Friday, starting about 6PM, people & their cars show up.  The lot is about full before 7:30PM.  All sorts of show & go [...]

From time to time I receive the Racing Secrets Newsletter via e-mail. Although the focus of the articles seems to be directed toward stock car & drag racing, there are still some good nuggets of wisdom.  In those e-mails there is a section titled DRIVING TIPS: (Ask Tami).  Here is letter from a reader that [...]

I met the Flying Integra! I learned about this car from Rene & Adriana at the S2KCA HPDE Event @ H2R on April 5th, 2009.  This former 1993 Acura Integra was a 2 time participant of 24 of LeMons series.  At the 24 event this past March, this car briefly became airborne, from running over [...]

I saw a wonderful thing & an inspiration of ownership possibilities.  At the 2009 SPOKES AutoX #2, I witnessed a clean, almost virgin-like, completely stock, white 1992 Mazda Miata. Peter (who has also autocrossed his 2008 Bullitt Mustang with SASCA) found this relatively low mileage (98K miles), pristine condition Miata online at AutoTrader.  I just [...]

By this, I mean both methods of propulsion – front AND rear engined… Andrew, who I met at the 2009 SPOKES AutoX #2, & again yesterday, at the S2KCA HPDE @ H2R, has a couple of nice Porsche examples of vintage iron. At the SPOKES autocross he brought his 1982 Porsche 924 that is a [...]