Archive for the 'Racing' Category

Team SafeRacer sponsors Brian Ghidinelli for the 2010 season

I am finally back in the garage after the holidays and making some progress on the #12 car. All the body panels and doors are off in preparation for paint. I am trying to cut some corners by not completely stripping the engine bay before painting to reduce what I have to reassemble. [...]

Heart rate monitor graph from road racing practice session at Laguna SCCA race. Shows why fitness in motorsport is so important.

CFPAYMENT announces 0.9 beta release including production-tested, documented gateways for payment processing on Braintree, Skipjack, Authorize.net and iTransact. More gateways coming!

Yesterday, a colleague and friend, Steve Walsh, died of a heart attack at his gym. He was 45. I know Steve through the BMW Car Club of America where we both volunteer to instruct high performance driving to anyone who wants to learn to be a better driver. In the last year, [...]

This is totally off-topic but I have a quick discount to pass along. As part of the MAZDASPEED motorsports development program, we racers are entitled to “S-Plan” pricing on new Mazda vehicles. They have made this pricing available to our friends and it basically works out to 2% under invoice which is a [...]

I recently bought a used 125cc shifter kart and I’m getting ready to go racing. I needed to pick up a karting suit as Nomex race suits aren’t permitted and my OMP suit is just a little too small. This time I wanted to be sure that I got one that fit well. [...]

SFR SCCA Championship-Winning Spec Miata – $19,000
UPDATE: SOLD! Car has been sold and kept in the SFR region.
UPDATE 2 1/8/2009: Car is Available – The driver who bought the car from me has issues that force him to sell. If you’re interested, I can put you in touch.
Championship Winning Spec Miata For Sale – [...]

This isn’t a “racing” topic, but damn if this car wasn’t built to be raced! Chris from the E30 M3 SIG has posted pics of his brand new M Coupe going through the BMW delivery facility in Oxnard, California. About 100 pics are posted here.

AIM Sports makes a great set of data acquisition systems for motorsport applications and I use the MyChron 3 in my Spec Miata. To find those last tenths, I share data with other racers and compare how we each take turns to find out which way works the best.
This past weekend at Sears Point [...]