American Le Mans at Laguna Seca

Saturday’s ALMS 6-hour endurance race at Monterey’s famous Laguna Secs was fantastic. The GT class was the most closely contested race I’ve seen in a long time, where the lead changed between the last turn and and the start finish, right in front of the main grandstands! Talk about excitement!

Watching, and photographing racing at [...]

American Le Mans – a few shots from qualifying

I shot over 500 photos yesterday at ALMS qualifying and practice. Here are few of those shots:

One hot car!

This happened early in the first qualifying session. The British, known for finding ways to make things leak, make the Jaguar, which dumped most of it’s oil on the track in the first turn:

TONIGHT! Final Round – Treads Gone Wild!

Kyosho Ultima SCR

Tonight is it! The final round of the Treads Gone Wild Summer Race Series at Bremerton R/C Raceway. If you have even the slightest curiosity about local R/C off-road racing, tonight is the night to check it out!.

LOCATION:

Bremerton R/C Raceway 1123 N Wycoff Ave Bremerton WA [...]

Treads Gone Wild summer race series is heating up!

Round 3 of TGW is now in the books, and it’s becoming a very VERY tight series. Two rounds left and unfortunately, I’m in danger of losing my 3rd place standing in the series.

Bryan is how tied with me for third, and he’s brought his A-game, winning last nights A-Main.

I qualified 5th [...]

Short Course Racing Status, January -> April 2011.

BRCR implemented a track change in mid April, so I’ve closed out the previous dataset, and started a new one for updated track.

During that time I also acquired the TLR22 buggy, and sold off the AE B4 (took less than 2 hours to sell, yip!).

So, without yammering on, here is the graph [...]

Kubica Rally Crash – very seriously injured, but lived

This past weekend, rising Formula 1 star very seriously injured in Italy.

From CNN:

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Team Associated releasing a 4×4 SC10! Oh, is this a must have?

While checking on the RC10.com site for blank setup sheets (I want to record the current tuning of my Factory Team SC10), I am faced with this:

NEW Team Associated SC10 4×4

SC10 4×4 Kit

1:10 Scale 4WD Electric Short Course Truck Kit.

Experience the thrill of four-wheel-drive action and performance with [...]

New Short Course body completed.

Photos of my new SC10 body in progress, along with the final result.

Test fitting the new body, and marking for the body clip posts:

SC10 Body B – measuring for mounting holes.

Masked and ready for paint:

Body masked for the first stage of painting (main color)

Primary color applied. This silver [...]

Short Course R/C Racing – My Novice season just about over.

The journey started in mid October. I was in Port Orchard, having a beer and pizza with some friends, when one of them suggested we drop by the R/C track in Bremerton afterward. I’d never heard of an indoor R/C track in the area. I used to have a couple of the early electric R/C [...]

Old photos – some pics from my Autocrossing days

While reading FaceBook tonight, someone posted a funny picture of an MR2 towing a small boat. That reminded me of a picture I had of me towing my Ducati 998 with the Miata! So, I went looking for that photo.

It took a few minutes to locate it, but I did.

While [...]