Laguna Seca can be a tough track on a race car. The drop into the Corkscrew is like jumping your car off a small ramp, and at speed you pretty much bottom it out. Listening to the heavy big-bore cars go through there is downright scary, lots of sparks flying and metal dragging going on. Now do that for [...]
This weekend the San Francisco Region SCCA club co-sponsored their annual Vintage race weekend at Laguna Seca Raceway with HSR-West. The combination turned out a huge event with almost 200 participants, and over 55 cars alone in the over-subscribed Small-Bore group (under 2.4L). Adding a couple more invited clubs such as the Factory Five Cobras and [...]
The concept of karma is strong in sports, especially racing – it is the theory of moral cause and effect. In other words “what comes around, goes around”. Help a guy out in the pits, and he may be the guy who next time passes you clean when he could have spun you out. Same thing [...]