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Trackday Diaries: Two wheels good, four wheels probably better.
It was thirty-eight degrees F outside, with a light misting of rain, as I pulled my newly-purchased 1975 Honda CB550 up to the stoplight, next to my ex-wife’s 2012 Edge. My son waved cheerfully from his monstrous child seat. “We only have eighty-two miles left to go,” I shouted through my chinbar, “and I want [...]
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Trackday Diaries: SCCA’s Wild World Of Jorts
When I agreed to drive a Honda S2000 in Atlanta’s SCCA National Tour event, I didn’t realize that, not only would this close a three-year-long gap in my autocross career, that I would be competing at the site of the last autocross I... Read Post
Trackday Diaries: I’ve seen fire, and I’ve seen rain.
“Far! Far!” The man in the corner station was screaming at me. Yes, I thought, as I steered off-line towards the grass, smoke billowing behind me from the twin tailpipes and blanketing the track like the thick fog of a dream, I’m ge... Read Post
Trackday Diaries: failure to train, the art of pretending to race in the rain.
A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to have noted Speed World Challenge and Grand-Am driver Randy Pobst on my team for a weekend endurance race. He was calm, gracious, and absolutely committed to the success of the team. He ev... Read Post