The summer break has been exceedingly long this year. I skipped the championship because I wouldn’t have a competitive package ready in time, and another event, the first annual Flatrock race, fell through. What is usually a one-month summer hiatus…
Years ago, when I first came back to racing, I devoured every book I could find on racecraft. From the well-known Speed Secrets series by Ross Bentley to obscure independent publications like You Suck at Racing by Ian Korf, and…
The Barber Motorsports event with NASA Mid South is my first outing to this world-class facility in 2025. I keep asking myself how I let that happen. I live so close, yet I find myself driving there so little. Something…
My first race in the Thunder Roadster was everything I wanted it to be except for one thing: oil temps. As I raced through the field during the Aussie Pursuit race, I was closely monitoring my oil temperature gauge as…
Sometimes your subconscious makes choices that you aren’t 100 percent aware of. And over the last two seasons, I have experimented in several racing series. With nothing quite feeling right. There was always this nagging, ‘this ain’t it’ feeling, no…
Standing at a crossroads. That’s what the last couple of years have felt like in my racing journey. And it has led me to a decision that’s as bittersweet as it is exciting. There’s a real sense of loss in…
What does a racer do during downtime besides work on racecars? How about watching other types of motorsport? And that is precisely what I did the first weekend of June when Hydrofest rolled into Lake Guntersville, AL, just down the…
Two hours into my endurance race stint, my foot was on fire, literally. By the time I stepped out of the Total-D Miata, I had a second-degree burn. Welcome to the world of Miata hot foot.
There’s something surreal about racing against your past self, especially when the ghost you’re chasing isn’t just a lap time, but a version of you that was younger, rougher around the edges, and driving a car that still had something…
My first outing with Lucky Dog Racing League also happened to be my first time on track at Atlanta Motorsports Park. Add to that a freshly rebuilt 1.6L Miata making its endurance debut, and you’ve got a recipe for chaos.…
The 2015 4th Gen Ram 2500 farm truck gets used a lot around here. So much so that I didn’t even notice when the 150k mark came and went. But when I did notice at 160k, I asked myself a…
Ozarks International Raceway isn’t your ordinary racetrack. It is 3.97 miles of relentless elevation changes, blind apexes, and high-speed off-camber turns—usually all at once. And it just so happens to host the September 2025 944 Spec National Championship. Which means…