Racing Ready

After Eric, my guest blogger at the 2010 Texas SCCA Solo National Tour, reported that Jay’s car broke, I wondered what happened. Here’s the explanation I received from Jay about his 2003 Z06 Corvette fix: Well, I got the car back this evening (Tuesday, 3/30) all repaired under warranty and ready for more fun.  It [...]

While Solo/Autocross competitors were getting their tires warmed up for their first day of the 2010 Texas SCCA Solo National Tour (last Saturday, 27-MAR-2010) many car enthusiasts came for the monthly San Antonio Coffee & Rides (others call it Cars & Coffee), an informal & free car show. I hadn’t been to one of these [...]

At last Saturday’s Rides & Coffee (Cars & Coffee?) I met Jim Garity.  He is an active member of the Porsche Club of America, Longhorn Region.  He was promoting his club’s next fundraiser, which sounds like fun!  Below are the details Jim sent me in a follow-up e-mail: As mentioned, our local Porsche Club chapter [...]

So, finally, here’s the full text & pix I got from Eric about what happened yesterday, at the 2010 Texas SCCA Solo National Tour competition in Mineral Wells, Texas: The last day of the SCCA Solo National Tour in Mineral Wells started off chilly and early for some drivers as the first car out for [...]

This afternoon, while on a Hill Country cruise with my wife & Karlino, I received this text message from Eric (my Guest Blogger): What’s up?  You’ll love tonight’s blog.  Jay’s car broke! Well, I didn’t get Eric’s e-mail of blog data before I went to bed & I did wait awhile… So, both you & [...]

Today was the first real day of Solo (SCCA-speak for autocross) competition at the 2010 Texas SCCA Solo National Tour.  Here’s the latest communique from the racing paddock by Eric, my guest blogger this weekend. Day 2 of the Solo National Tour started early, with a driver’s meeting.  As you can imagine, there were a [...]

Here’s a quick post to show you Eric’s third practice run from yesterday, for the 2010 Texas SCCA Solo National Tour: It’s a deceptively simple looking short course, but like all track layouts, I’m sure it is trickier that it looks.  As Eric mentioned in his previous post yesterday, they were having air pressure measurement [...]