Evo School Day 1

Today I completed phase 1 of the Evolution Performance Driving School. This school is hosted at sites around the country and co-sponsored by the local SCCA chapters. The school is taught by former autocross champions on the national level and is designed to teach performance...

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Weekend Plans?

Well let's see, it's Friday, so what is going on this weekend?NASCAR is up the road in Martinsville VA, so that will be an interesting race. The half mile track there is mighty small compared to other big tracks, and with no banking I don't know how those drivers can stand it! ...

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THREE

Three days to the next autocross, and I'm sure by now the media, TV networks, and all motor sport journalists are packing up and heading for Darlington, home of the NASCAR race on the track that is "TOO TOUGH TO TAME"!  More specifically, they are heading to the parking...

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Darlington Results

Andre did an awesome bit of driving, with his first run in the 43 second range, and then from there he just started cranking it up every time for 6 runs, ending up in the mid 36s!!! I was riding with him most of the time, and it was incredible to see the gain in speed as his...

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GO!

(This post was written before the competition at Darlington today, so for now I'll share the first photo of three Fiat Abarths that competed above.  Full results will come later, but Patrice the driver in the middle took overall fastest PAX time on the day out of about...

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ONE

One day before Sunday and our first event!  As of right now there are 72 drivers entered, with 16 of them in the Street Class.  Cars include a BMW M3, BMW Z4, Nissan 370Z, Mazda Miata, Dodge Challenger SRT8, Ford Mustang GT, Ford Mustang V6, Scion tC, Toyota Corolla...

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TWO

Happy Friday everyone!  That means we now have two days to go before the first autocross for points this year. The number two also stands for our huge number of cars in the NMS stables, our world wide global presence motor sport team (and entirely made up entity) that in...

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FOUR

Four days to go until the first points autocross of the year, so things are pretty exciting around the Nixon Motor Sports garage.  While Brian will be out of town visiting Chicago and miss this event, he will be driving in a two day EVO driving school in Charlotte the following...

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Car Branding

We've set our goals to improve our driving skill, but I can't help but want to also look the part.  Today I picked up and applied the few more pieces to the Miata's graphics package.  Big thanks again to Panic Motorsports for working with me to create and apply some...

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Bob's 2014 Autocross Goals

This is kind of strange to put my goals on paper, but here goes.Win a million dollars.  Wait a minute, I'm not going to win any money at autocross, rats! Back to reality.1. Compete in all the South Carolina Region events this year.   Last year was my first year,...

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Bob's 2014 F1 Predictions

You've seen Brian's F1 predictions for 2014, so I guess I better set the record straight on how things will really finish this year! Before I dive in though, since it's March 12th, let's all sing Happy Birthday to Brian!OK, now, predictions for F1..., right off the bat this...

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Brian's 2014 Autocross Goals

As a whole at NMS we're always working to improve ourselves and a big part of that is setting goals.  Last season I set out with a goal to just try autocrossing once, and that quickly escalated into running as many events as I could.  Over in GS, there was a good chance for a class victory and that drove our #77 to a very close 2nd place...

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Brian's 2014 F1 Predictions

Alrighty then...2014 F1 is only days away!  I'm getting pretty excited for the Thursday kickoff events for the season and the first practice in Australia.  With this year's massive rule changes and pre-season testing showing results all over the place, it should be a really exciting season with a lot of unknowns, but here's my prediction...

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North American Motorsports Expo

Today we drove up the road to Charlotte for the final day of the 2014 North American Motorsports Expo, or MSX.  The MSX was basically a bunch of motor sport related exhibitors that are here at the same time as the Sports Car Club of America national convention.  If...

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Next Best Thing to Driving

What could be better than driving?  How about watching the pros do it from the comfort of your own home?NASCAR is already in season, and next week the Formula 1 teams will kick it off in Australia.  Here at home we will be tuned in to NBC Sports Network (NBC Sports...

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Born to Drive

This week is the 7th of a 12 week training program to get ready for running my first half-marathon here in Columbia, SC on April 12th.  To be on the safe side, I went to a local running store this weekend to get fitted for some new shoes.  Two hour runs are long enough...

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A Formula One Conspiracy or Brilliant Strategy?

This weekend concluded the pre-season testing for all of the F1 teams.  The first race will be on Sunday, March 16th from Melbourne, Australia.   The coverage of the pre-testing seems to suggest that Red Bull Racing (four-time constructors' champion), who have absolutely been dominating the sport in recent years is really struggling with...

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