The longest day I have had in a race car was fourteen hours of a club enduro, split four ways, in weather that could not decide what it wanted. I…
Formula 1
Every club paddock in America has this argument going at any given moment, usually around a folding table with a cooler on it. Ours ran for about six years. It…
A friend of mine has a test for this. If you can name a corner at a circuit without looking it up, the circuit is iconic. If you cannot, it…
There is a specific sound a room makes when a race turns. I have heard it in a club trailer with four people in it and once in a bar…
Everyone at my club ends up with a nickname in time and it is rare for one to be of their own choosing. They are given by those at the…
Who is fastest over a set number of laps? That is the question most motor racing asks. Endurance racing asks a different one, and the difference is the whole sport…
There is a kid at our track whose father won a regional championship in the nineties. He is quick, he works at it, and every single conversation about him at…
Our club has a family with two racing sons and one trailer. The older one gets the seat time, because he is closer to a result that might lead somewhere…
Most of the people I race with have day jobs, and the day job is usually the more interesting half of the conversation. One of our crew chiefs fixes commercial…
There is a man at our track who is sixty-one and still enters the Saturday sprint race. He has not won anything in eleven years. He is also, on any…