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Originally Posted by WicKeD_SS
Very nice write up on your car in the new Camaro Per Mag! Congrats!
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Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal
Yep, love the car and the artiice! Must of been fun writing about your own car  |
Thanks! It's a bit weird to write about yourself, I'll be honest.
Ok, well to give you all an update. I have been extremely busy with the car lately so here goes.
I shot my car a while back in October for Camaro Perfomers and it finally came out! yay!
Check out the July Issue of CP!
So if that's not awesome enough, we went racing....
I went with the moto: "No Regrets" and boy did that ever show. I posted a personal best time of 1:54 at the shortened road course at Road America and left pretty much all I could out on the track and even some paint. That time got me 21st out of 71 entrants. Considering the level of competition, I'm quite happy with my time and where I fell. Last year I ended up in the middle of the pack and this year I vowed to be well over the top %50 and that's exactly what happened. I pushed hard and really took the car much further than it had gone up until this point. Regardless, I did have a little boo-boo.
You can see it here. Skip to 3:30 if you want to see the "OOPS".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYmKLaF3aSU
You can tell my apexes are pretty weak and had a hard time with take off out of the corners, so a lot can still be done suspension and driver-skill wise. Car was lightly damaged, nothing to worry about. Driver was fine. Car even went back out for more laps later.
Here's video of 3 laps of the short course. The red Mustang had a 15 second head start and the one I pass near the end had easily a 45 second lead before I passed him. Such a rush to PASS a car! MAN!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUfQSB8Jj4
Image of damage: Nothing major.
The go-karts this year were JAM PACKED! Holy cow we had a ton of drivers. The team of me, brian finch, Mike Norris and the BFG guy AJ finished 4th out of the 13 (i think, maybe 15) teams. Which, frankly wasn't all that bad all things considered.
We had lots of fun and will certainly do it again, this time I will go sub 1:50 as my goal, we shall see after I tweak the nut behind the wheel.
Here's some obligatory shots from over the weekend.
Bill Goldberg in a wig.
Me and the girlfriend trying to get Mary Pozzi to pretend to be me and drive my car at the event. ( I would have paid her, I swear).
Jim trying to help another fellow racer and camaro guy after his engine had some problems.
Me and the little lady
And finally, for now anyways (have 800 or more shots) an image my GF took. So rare to actually see a picture of me driving since I'm always behind the camera.
