First Sponsor of 2011!

All Right! We have our first sponsor of 2011!

Sprecher Brewery, one of my favorite local makers of fine Root Beer (among other things), has agreed to sponsor us with some cases of gourmet sodas for our races!

Saw this quote, thought it was interesting...

Loose is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car, tight is when you hit the wall with the front of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall and torque is how far you move the wall.

Hope my wife doesn't read it!

-Niles

Wow... Another year! So, it's 2011 now, and we've been silent for a while. This isn't because we haven't been doing things... No, we've been so busy that we haven't updated!

So... What excitement has occurred?

We participated in two LeMons races last year - Gingerman and Joliet. They were both a blast, being competitive, although not finishing in the top 10.

We were incredibly competitive at Gingerman - we were in the top 10 after the first day - but then ran into transmission problems, losing 3rd gear. Then the fun kicked in - we found a transmission 2 hours away, drove and picked it up, swapped it that night (thanks to the guy who let us use his hoist!), and were back up and running the next morning.

What an awesome potential for a comeback. (See Video Here)

And then, 3 1/2 hours into the race the second day, we lost 3rd again.

There goes the comeback.

Needless to say, we were a bit bummed - but it was still an awesome experience, and with the improvements since that race we expect to be extremely competitive at Gingerman this year.

The second race - at Autobahn Country Club, we did fairly well - in the top half. Quite a bit of interest on the first day, due to all sorts of rain. We're not good in the water... But once it dried up we were doing pretty well! Unfortunately, we weren't able to catch up from where we were after the rain.

On a personal note - I picked up a new "fun" car for myself. A nice 1995 Mazda Miata M Edition. It's a bit more "sophisticated" looking than lots of Miatas... Means that I can't go all "racer" on it, but it looks beautiful and my wife loves it.

Oh... And I got married last year.

See - busy!

More, rapid, updates to come!

-Niles

We participated in the first WAI Autocross of the season, and had a blast! I put an inital video up on YouTube. All of the in/on car video was shot with the awesome Hoyt Technologies MSR-200.

Sponsors!

So... Over the winter we've been fairly quiet on here... But that doesn't mean we haven't been doing things!

The biggest thing I've been doing is seeing about getting sponsorships. Amazingly, I have one I can announce, and a second on the way...

We have been lucky enough to be sponsored by Hoyt Technologies! They make some great car/motorcycle related gear, specifically camera systems. They have been nice enough to let us use an MSR-200 High Definition MotorSports Camera. The even cooler part is that they've set us up so that we can re-sell their units at the races. If anyone is interested in one, see me at our events!



I'm uploading videos to YouTube right now...

Well its still cold outside, but the first race of the new year is going to be upon me sooner then I think, so me and one of my drivers decided to (litterally) dust off the Camaro and start getting it ready for the next race. We started with the brakes, it was amazing how bad they were. I expected them to be pretty trash after 24 hours of constant abuse but the front brakes looked as if they had done a lunar landing! The rotors were heat stained blue, and the front suspension was coated with little chunks of brake pad. The hydralics all seemed to have survived just fine though. So a few hours later the car has brand new brakes on it. We also installed a new set of (suspension) springs and new (softer) tires. That's all we can do for now till the JEGS box hits my door. I gotta say I'm really starting to look foreward to getting back on the track.

Well the snow is flying...so no work is getting to be done on the Camaro. But we have some updates. Niles scored a set of used eibach springs for the Camaro and I have a new job...things are looking up for team sucker punch I thinks.