Talk is cheap.  I have a bad habit of thinking about what I want my future to look like and then talking about my thoughts to the people around me.  Because I think a lot, I talk a lot.  Problem is, a lot of what I talk about never comes to pass, so I’m afraid [...]

I don’t write enough about racing.  It’s one of the three things I want to concentrate on in life (the other two being writing and accomplishing the goals on my Goddard List), so I should write more about it.  With that in mind, let me give you a quick update on my racing plans. Let’s [...]

Last month, I wrote a blog post detailing the problems we have encountered since buying a race car back in May of this year.  I won’t go into the whole sordid mess again, but it might make some sense to read the previous post to find out how we bought a car in May and then [...]

I am fond of saying that there are really only three things I want to do with my life.  I want to write, I want to race, and I want to work on accomplishing the goals on my Goddard List.  Although I have written fairly extensively on my desire to write and to work on [...]

When it comes to motorsports, I am a big fan of sports car racing. I’ve always been a fan of closed-wheel, sedan racing.  Even so, I do enjoy watching open wheel racing, and one of my all-time favorite open wheel racers is Alex Zanardi. In case you don’t know, Zanardi used to run the old Champ [...]

When I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to work timing and scoring at several sports car races that were held at the beautiful Road America road racing track in the kettle moraine region of Wisconsin.  It was a great experience and it was what led me to fall in love with road racing. [...]