Racing Ready

I had been wondering about the latest progress about Austin, Texas really getting the Formula 1 to start racing in June 2012.  Here’s some information from the official promotion folks, Full Throttle Productions, LP. Welcome.  Thank you for your interest in the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™.  As you are aware, Austin, Texas, will [...]

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Neil Roberts harkens from the Austin, TX area.  He graduated from Texas A&M & worked for Jim Hall’s Indy Pennzoil Indy car during the 1990′s.  He’s since worked for Swift Engineering.  He just published his first book about racing preparation & why you do it! Neil Roberts is an aerospace engineer, a 25 year SCCA [...]

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A big LOL from this Father’s Day card my younger daughter gave me – check it out! ..and here’s the closer line inside that ties it all together! We have to thank this card company for the good chuckle I got & I’m sure you did, too! Racing Ready really appreciates a good sense of [...]

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While I was at Thunderhill Raceway on June 5th, 2010, my older daughter, Katherine, attended the Texas Motor Speedway IndyCar Firestone 550K race, an IndyCar night race… I had asked her last minute to provide a casual review of her impressions of this IndyCar night race.  Here’s what Katherine recorded.  She did a really great [...]

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I just arrived home from the airport, after a ho-hum drive in after work traffic .  Jeesh!  American driving is SO non-eventful.  It seems so VERY appliance-like, just going through the motions, navigating from point A to point B. After only 4 days of being driven around & riding in a variety Central Mexico traffic [...]

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Almost a year ago, I visited rural Mexico to attend a function with my wife’s family.  We’re now back for more, for another function & long weekend in my wife’s hometown in Mexico. Thirty years ago I learned to adapt to the Mexican style of driving, in Mexico City.  During that time I spent almost [...]

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Okay, I know you’ve been waiting for it.  You want to see the Runcos actually do some racing!  If you’ll have just a little patience, this video shows the 9 Allison Legacy race cars impounded after post-qualifying inspection.  Also, Texdive is showing their AMSOIL Racing colors! (Click on the lower right YouTube logo, you’ll see [...]

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