Racing Ready

I’m not a fit individual, by any means, but there are all sorts of reasons to become so: First & best related to this blog, better fitness makes you a better racer – all the best race drivers are at their peak of fitness When you are fit, you tend to loose weight – many [...]

We may not be able to afford the time & availability to attend & participate in local/regional racing venues (or lack thereof).  But we still want to exercise our car’s & our own driving ability.  Well, the open road beckons!  One answer is… the weekend club cruise or drivers’ outing.  It’s a great alternative. Such [...]

Grassroots Motorsports (GRM) magazine celebrates their 25th – here’s the 1st issue: To help celebrate, they will be publishing their 25th anniversary issue as a free online edition, available to anyone who wants to sign up.  Do that here… Celebrate 25 years of Grassroots Motorsports With a Free E-Pub Grassroots Motorsports is celebrating 25 years [...]

I found what may be a fast track to authentic racing, beyond the amateur club racing enthusiast’s level! One of the social networking sites I lurk in is LinkedIn (it’s like social networking for business).  I am a member of a racing enthusiast group (within LinkedIn) called NASA Pro Racing. An individual named Mike Branan, [...]

Running in HPDEs (high performance driver education) events does not require a full stripped out, race-prepped car, like Buck’s Porsche 944 Project.  Many have brought their regular daily drivers, albeit, somewhat modified, but only in a minor way. Kevin is one of those who bring their game along with their “slightly” upgraded daily driver & [...]

I have blogged about Brianne Corn a couple of times here: Dragon Racer Lashes Out At Autocross Brianne’s Pikes Peak Adventure Here’s a snippet of a good, in-depth article that just came out today from her hometown newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman: We all reach a time in our lives when we figure it out. We [...]

For some, road racing is an ongoing project, a learning process.  Buck, from Corpus Christi, Texas, has been working on his Porsche 944 Turbo for some time now.  He has been enjoying it every step of the way, although it hasn’t been smooth sailing.  I met him & his car at the SEA Track Attack [...]