The 2026 Race Season … So Far!
I’ve been a bit quiet lately, and I wanted to pop in and catch up. I suffered a pretty significant injury four weeks before the season opener at Nashville Superspeedway. This led me on an engineering journey to set up…
Thunder Roadster
Driving the Thunder Roadster Without the Clutch: Heel-Toe Shifting the Sequential Gearbox
With a strained left calf and a race days away, I had two options: sit it out, or figure out how to drive the Thunder Roadster without relying on the clutch. Never one to be deterred, I chose the latter…
Finding Speed Through Weight Reduction: Thunder Roadster Edition
After my deep dive into Classing the Thunder Roadster, it is exceedingly clear that Yamaha-powered variants are running at a significant disadvantage. Furthermore, I am on a quest, so to speak, to find a competitive, sub-20k racecar that punches well…
Classing the Thunder Roadster: Prep 1, Prep 2 and Beyond
I am happy to report that my love affair with the Thunder Roadster has not waned. If anything, it has sparked an engineering journey that I am super excited about. And throughout that process, I have found the documentation around…
Barber Motorsports in the Thunder Roadster with NASA Mid South
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…
Cooling the Yamaha Powered Thunder Roadster: Relocating the Oil Cooler
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…
Introducing the Yamaha Powered Thunder Roadster
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…