Saturday, November 22, 2008

Back to Daytona !



We are in the process of putting together our lineup for the 24 hrs of Daytona this year. Currently we have Micheal Gomez, Long time Skippy racer and Rolex veteran, Daniel Graeff, Skippy Mazda racer and Gourmet Food wizard and Myself . We our currently auditioning four a fourth and have a few great candidates. This year we are racing for the Children's Tumor Foundation as our lead sponsor. It is a great cause supporting Neurofibromatosis. ( you have the internet, look it up.) or go to Racing4research.com We have some other suprises planned for the team which we will post later. We will try to put together some contests and packages for those who wish to attend. Hopefully our deal will be finished soon so we can make a formal announcement. It looks like we will be running with Farnbacher-Loles this year another top grand-am team. Farnbacher has made it easy this year to do this deal, one of the suprises that Farnbacher gave us was a pro driver for our car. Not just anybody, they gave us one of the top Porsche drivers in the world Wolf Henzler ! He will quailify the car and do the first stint or two ! So we should be up front when I hop in the car! Last to first! I hope so!!
We have been down to Daytona in Oct to test as well as Nov. The Oct test went fairly well and I was fairly fast, at 1:55.0. Last year my best time was 56.9. I wasn't even pushing. the Nov test I was slower, but there were new tires and a shitty set up on the car. We will be heading back in Jan for another test. I better be in the 53-54 range. Looking forward to raising some cash for the Tumor kids. Will Also will include some recent in car video. Luckily, Jim Pace was down for both tests and helped keep me even keel, and offer his insights into Daytona, the best was this one
Jim Pace: "It's Daytona, and one of the things that makes Daytona attractive to international drivers all around is the fact that this race is a team effort. It's not about who's braking the latest at turn one or making that classic pass that everybody remembers years later. It's about putting the right team together, everybody running steady, planning it well, executing it well. And if you do it the best, they give you a watch!"
Enjoy the Ride ! "If you ain't racin', you ain't livin' "
For you dirt track fans, " Mama, I wanna go Fast "

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