Racing Ready

I hadn’t been to a San Antonio Coffee & Rides event in a few months.  It’s grown!  Besides some familiar faces & rides, I saw many more cars.  This time the lot looked almost full.  I estimated close to 150 cars!  What a great turnout! (Click to enlarge for detail…) Here’s some random pix I [...]

Earlier today, Tavo Hellmund announced 3 important items to advance the progress of Formula 1 in Austin, Texas for June 2012 (the official press release is here): Red McCombs support as the primary “mover & shaker” investor. The proposed location to be SE of the Austin airport! Formula 1 launched a new website, as well [...]

Sondra Sondregger, a respected Austin-based autocrosser & HPDE (High Performance Driver Education) promoter, is very active & involved in the South/Central Texas motorsports community.  Sondra has even started her own HPDE endeavor, Velocity Adventures Texas. Sondra was interviewed on the radio (along with Eric Beverding of Harris Hill Road) a couple of weeks ago.  They [...]

Okay, here’s the follow-up to the news that Texas State Comptroller, Susan Combs, visited a Formula 1 race (at Silverstone in England), on her own dime.  She was favorably impressed & looks to be pushing support for this event to happen!  Details/video are here! Here are some teaser snippets from the article: Texas Comptroller Checking [...]

I was SO pleasantly impressed yesterday!  I celebrated the 1 year anniversary of Karlino ownership (my 1999 Mazda Miata).  To mark the occasion, I participated in the 2010 SASCA Autocross #7. You ask, “Why was Dan impressed?”  I’ll get to that in a bit.  I had missed the last 4 SASCA autocross events due to [...]

My favorite guest blogger, Eric, just sent me a quick little article from the most recent SPOKES/SASCA autocross he attended & participated in from 2 weeks ago.  This is notable for 2 reasons: This is a first time autocross experience for the owner, Kevin. This is a NICELY restored/upgraded Corvette – very sweet! I know, [...]

Here’s an interesting, hot off the press,  Formula 1 in Austin, Texas snippet! This was compiled from The Austin-America Statesman (the Austin newspaper)  Staff & Wire Reports (Published: 10:52 p.m.,  Wednesday, July 7, 2010): Comptroller checks out F1 race State Comptroller Susan Combs, instrumental in securing a Formula One race in Austin beginning in 2012, left Wednesday to get [...]