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Scenes from the Streets of St. Pete!
The next round of the Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup series is this weekend, and I’m really excited to be back at St. Petersburg. We were last here in the fall of 2020, after the race was postponed from its original date in the spring. It’s always fun to see a full field of...
How to Repeat Success
I spent last week at Road Atlanta working with some longtime clients of mine. We had several days of practice, testing, setup, and getting drivers dialed in, which culminated in a race weekend. It was a really productive few days leading up to the event. My clients...
Spring is Here, and it’s Busy!
It’s refreshing that spring is officially here and both track events and racing are in full swing again. I was fortunate enough to be at VIR last week for a great track event with lots of fun and good-looking cars, and now I’m getting ready for a busy week at Road...
No Replacement for Seat Time
There really is no replacement for quality seat time. I was recently at Circuit of the Americas to help a client get valuable practice time in before a big upcoming event. It’s fair to say that the practice time allocated on a race weekend is just to get familiar with...
Sebring: What We’ve Come to Expect from MX-5 Cup
What an incredible week at Sebring! Not only did we have perfect weather every day, but the racing was another one for the history books. There was so much great racing on tap for the week, and it was wonderful to see fans, who are such a traditional part of the 12...
MX-5 Cup: Setting Up for Sebring
This week is the second double-header weekend of the Idemitsu MX-5 Cup championship, and it’s a part of the historic 12 Hours of Sebring event. Sebring is not only an iconic circuit for sports cars, but it also has some exciting recent history for the MX-5 Cup series...
The Co-Driver Learning Curve
Last week was the opening round of the SRO World Challenge Series at Sonoma Raceway in California. It’s always a nice change of pace to be out in Wine Country and to travel into San Francisco. It’s such a different landscape than what I have here on the East Coast!...
Preparation Tactics for Annual Events
A lot of drivers look forward to making an annual pilgrimage to a destination track, myself included. In my case, it’s IMSA events at tracks that I only visit once a year. For other drivers, it might be a regular season event or something special, like an annual...
Making the Most of it When You Can’t Make an Event
What happens when you can’t make it to an event or it gets cancelled at the last minute? We’ve been seeing a lot of event cancellations the past couple of weeks due to the unusual winter weather so much of the US has been experiencing. It’s certainly easy to simply...
Sebring, Part II: Helping a Client Build a New Team
I had an exciting opportunity last week to work with a new team. It’s a client I worked with last season, but he is starting his own team this year. It’s always exciting to see a new program getting off the ground, along with all of the logistics required, like...









