Planes, Trains & Automobiles

It’s early Saturday morning and I’m about to hop in the shower after a pretty lengthy 6 hours of sleep. Here are some brief notes from the weekend so far which, despite some hiccups, is going pretty well:

• Thursday, 9:30pm – Mark and I arrive at Willows hotel, but the car is still at the shop

• Friday Sunrise

  The first of several sunrises this weekend

  
  Friday, 5:37am – Get up early so we can help setup the paddock space; something that was to be done Thursday but due to weather was pushed out. Show up at the track to find nobody there because the car is on I-5 in transit. Find our pit space is the only one in the dirt,

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Although not exactly a trip or travels, I am going to chronicle my involvement in the NASA 25 Hour Enduro this year. This is an endurance auto race where the cars run straight for 25 hours. First place at the end takes all the glory.

My friend Marshall Pruett put together a team to run a Subaru WRX STI previously run in the Car & Driver SuperTuner challenge. An amazing number of hours have gone into preparing the car by many talented people. Although I love to drive, for this effort I am an assistant manager of the team, helping to keep things straight late in the night as we perform driver changes, refuel and swap …