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2025 PNW Historics Preview
Wow. It’s already Pacific Northwest Historics time again. It’s the race that started racing for SOVREN, and the biggest vintage racing event in the Northwest. Once again, over 150 cars are entered. By FAR, the best way to enjoy these races is to come out to the track and spectate in person. Tickets are $30/adult…
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2025 CSRG Laguna Seca Summary
(June 30: I haven’t finished editing videos or photos from this weekend. Check back for more in this post soon!) Well those three days (plus one driving day on each end) were a lot of things; full spectrum to say the least. Where to start… The drive down was mellow…after the 2000 mile drive each…
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2025 CSRG Laguna Seca Preview
YES! As I type this we are well on our way, literally, to the “dry lagoon”; Laguna Seca, for three days of racing fun with CSRG. As of right now, we have 505 of the 935 mile drive left to go, after a 6:00 AM start from Seattle. I’m “pinch me” excited to drive this…
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2025 Spokane Festival of Speed Summary
It was a great weekend of safe, fun racing in Spokane. The executive TL/DR summary: Even a blind squirrel finds a few nuts. Of course, the first nut I found is Stephen Newby. After my engine break-down at Spring Sprints he generously (beyond words) offered to let me race one of his cars at Spokane.…
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2025 Spokane Festival of Speed Preview
I’ll not bury the lede: No, my #12 Bugeye will not be ready for this event at Qlispe’ Raceway Park June 6-8. A very generous and kind driver offered me a ‘seat’ in his second race car for this event. It’s an honor and big responsibility that I considered for several days before accepting…at his…
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2025 Spring Sprints Summary
For the TL/DR folks, sometimes racing looks like this: It’s unfortunate, but it happens. Mark 1 Sprites were delivered with an optimistic factory rating of 43HP. We’re running them at 130+. The…frustrating (tempering my language) part of this one is that it was easily avoidable and shouldn’t have happened at all. Alas. Here’s the video…
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Spring Sprints 2025 Preview
When the 2024 racing season ended on September 29, I was weary. Between August 10 and September 29 we were on-track for eleven days over four weekends. We raced in two countries and three states and towed the race car nearly 5000 miles. Along the way we installed a temporary passenger seat for picnic rides,…
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Let’s Go Racing?
Today is April 7, 2025. If all goes well, we head to the track on May 1 to load-in for a May 2 test & tune day, followed by two days of racing May 3-4. My once long list of tasks and unknowns has condensed down to installing a 3.9 diff, re-sealing the axles, and…
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Early 2025 Update
My Road America and end-of-season updates aren’t done yet…but why not post a little update of what’s been going on during the off-season? The year started with a focus on the Arnold car, and the SOVREN Annual General Meeting, AGM (awards banquet). My fellow Sprite and Midget racers swept the top three positions in Group…
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Fall Finale Preview
Yes: I haven’t finished the Columbia River Classic summary or the Road America preview, or started the Road America summary (but one video is posted). Since we left for Elkhart Lake on September 9 I’ve had just two mornings where I wasn’t on-task or on the go. I got home last Sunday night (the 21st)…
