Jumat, 30 Mei 2014

Target: June 15th Fathers Day Autocross

The NMS stables have targeted Sunday June 15th for their next autocross event, this time heading north to Winston Salem NC to drive with the Triad Sports Car Club.  For the first time we're going to both drive the FIAT in G Street, so there will definitely be some bragging...

Rabu, 28 Mei 2014

Technical Difficulties

Testing and data analysis from Monday's event at CMP reveals NMS driver Brian Nixon is making a critical mistake that is easily costing significant time delays on track.  Below we see the file photo of our #86 driver holding his lunch of an apple and a peanut butter sandwich....

Minggu, 25 Mei 2014

Congrats, Marussia!

A big congratulations to the Marussia F1 team as they clinched their first championship points in over 4 seasons of racing to decisively move ahead of close rival, Catherham in this year's Forumula 1 season!  Driver Jules Bianchi had a terrific race in Monaco to put the car in 8th position, though was demoted to 9th position to serve a penalty....

Back in Black

I took advantage of the long weekend and painted the 17" Miata wheels black to match the overall color scheme.  Some of the wheels were getting chipped so this should also help keep them from flaking the original silver coating all over the place.  Luckily I had the...

Rabu, 21 Mei 2014

Anatomy of an Autocross

Let's just take a look at our last autocross results from May 10th at Darlington. Here's the run times from all six runs in the E Street, F Street, and G Street categories.  All drivers get the same number of runs, but only the fastest one counts.  Kind of like how...