It's been a crazy few weekends for me, but thought I'd share what I've had the chance to do recently. Three weekends ago was the Rolex 24 - had a blast as usual and the weather wasn't nearly as bad as expected.
Last weekend I drove down for the PCA 48 Hours of Sebring to volunteer. Mostly worked the scales and tech, but also did some flagging once we slowed down. Got a chance to watch greats like Randy Pobst and Patrick Long out on track (in between waving blue flags as they caught up with the slower cars). Unfortunately, I would estimate at least $1 million in damage was done between the 3 cars that were totaled and 6-7 others that crashed throughout the weekend. I learned a lot from Carlos, our resident Porsche Master mechanic as well as others and got to tune some carbs for a couple guys in need. Saturday night I got a chance to talk briefly with Patrick, which was way cool and even participated in some of the midnight golf cart laps around the track.
This past weekend I got a call from a guy who I've known since childhood who just got a new-to-him car and had no mechanic or engineer for the SCCA weekend. It's an old Formula Ford Chassis built to SCCA D-sports racer specs with a Suzuki GSX-R engine in the back. Weighing in at a little over 1100 pounds, it's apparently a blast to drive and pretty cool to watch go around the track. I spent most of the weekend prepping the car, chasing down gremlins and avoiding several catastrophes with loose bolts and other problems which pop up with a car that's new. There was a beautiful F-Production 914 there as well, which I got to poke around and ask questions as well. Apparently he is one of Chris Foley's longtime customers and I saw several Tangerine Racing parts on the car Pics below.
Anyhow, all in all an exhausting but very productive last few weeks. I'm finally getting to get my feet wet in racing and learning a lot through the process. Thank you guys for getting me this far and imparting so much knowledge upon me!