This weekend was the annual “Dream Machines” show at the Half Moon Bay airport. It’s kind of a ‘planes, trains, and automobiles’ type of gathering, with everything from WWII fighters and bombers, hot rods and muscle cars, steam powered machinery, bicycles, live music, unicycle racing (no, the ones with motors), monster truck rides, a Hell’s Angels [...]

Every racer needs a transponder to compete on the track these days, and AMB seems to be the transponder of choice by most organizations. Problem is, they aren’t cheap! The $450 expense is equal to entry fees plus race gas for most weekends. So what are you gonna do when your rechargeable unit stops charging, [...]

One of the great things about racing is that you learn something every time out. Sometimes you learn something about your car, like the chatter I was experincing in a high-speed corner got worst when I increased rebound dampening when I expected the opposite (the shocks were packing up, not pogo-ing). Sometimes you learn something [...]

Seems like everyone has a camera these days

Here’s a great opportunity to get some summer track time at Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway – Your Private Track Days still has some slots available for their event on Wednesday, June 20th. Most tracks are sweltering this time of year, but Laguna Seca is usually cool and foggy in the morning, and sunny and 70 [...]

This weekend we went to Willow Springs Int’l Raceway to race with VARA at their annual High Desert Challenge. My buddy Tim Arnett came along to play, and so did the Zephyrs! The winds blew 20 mph, gusting 30+ on Saturday, and 30, gusting 40+ all day Sunday. It made for some pretty interesting racing, as holding a [...]