Having just secured a regional SCCA Solo II season championship after
just the eigth round out of twelve I should be ecstatic. I mean, I won every event I entered, and I will end up with
a neat jacket later this year. But...it feels a bit empty if I'm honest. Yes, a class championship was
the goal this season, and yes a win is a win. That said, I ran uncontested four times, and it's hard for me to
feel accomplished after murdering fair-weather racers by 5 seconds on account of their lack of race tires (the
knife in a gunfight analogy comes to mind...).
So, with this season's goal accomplished ahead of schedule,
I will be moving to into the "Pro" class for the duration. This means I will be competing in a PAX adjusted
class (using vehicle performance handicaps) against at least one national SOLO II champion and several others that regularly
place in national tour events. This means I will feel very accomplished winning AN EVENT let alone a season.
I can stand in the kiddie pool now, so it's time to jump in the deep end.
As discretion oft proves the better part of valor, brevity
oft proves the better part of writing. Due to some mild retardation I have no video from my HPDE outing and
thus, on this occasion, I must hang my hat on mere words and pictures.
I will admit to some trepidation as
I unloaded my car in a driving snow storm on Friday the 12th. Camden, SC where I lodged received, in fact, 5 inches
of accumulation in about 12 hours Friday night. Fortunately, all was not lost.
UPDATE: So, as I posted in the blog section to the left, all went well. I ran somewhat
of a mini-blog on Tennspeed, and I am way too lazy to transcribe the entire thing, so in lieu of actual work, here is a link:
So, we are at it again. We loaded the GT2 onto the trailer yesterday
(Wednesday 11/11) and headed south. We pulled in today and with a favorable weather forecast, it looks like some pretty
slick stuff is going to come out of the woodwork. I snapped a few teaser pics in the garage earlier this evening, but
will post more. The link below will take you to all pictures:
Better
late to the headlines than never. TJ finally managed to get the 240 up and completely running a month or so ago.
Now it is just an issue of a little polish and fine-tuning. In honor of this momentous occasion, 3-Zero productions
presents....a ridiculous video montage
It snowed
here in Knoxville recently, and I was reminded how very incompetent most people are at driving in the white stuff. To
wit, I present to you, "how it's done":
