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2025 Fall Finale Preview
Sept 22 Update: The schedule has changed a bit. New version below. The season that started out, literally, with a bang, was very front-loaded with three weekends of racing in five weeks, including long tows to and from the bucket-list and famed Laguna Seca track, has come down to its final weekend. As of today,…
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2025 Columbia River Classic Summary
Well. In retrospect, the 2025 CRC was a somewhat mitigated microcosm of the entire 2025 season. Thankfully, I came home with an intact car and engine this time. The 180 mile drive to the track is pleasant and I arrive in the paddock at 12:45 and find a spot in the Spridget Compound, at the…
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2025 Columbia River Classic Preview
It seems like it’s been a year since I last raced. The PNW Historics was seven weeks ago and I missed the mid-August race in Mission due to not having a race engine for the car. Though I was rue to miss Mission, I took the open weekend to travel to Michigan to help my…
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2025 PNW Historics Summary
What a weekend. From agony and thinking the season was over, to running my 22 best laps at Pacific Raceways (no typo…22), it was a truly full-spectrum experience. Move-in is smooth on Thursday evening, even though I showed up with a car without running gear. Yep, just like Evan at Spring Sprints, there is no…
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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
(July 16: I still 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…
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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…
