PRI 2022 is now

While the flights to Indianapolis were a complete mess, the shuttle ride to PRI on Thursday morning was smooth as silk.

Thursday morning at PRI is always a special as it is a welcome breakfast to the attendees.  There are thousands of us to enjoy our breakfast and enjoy racing legend Tony Stewart sharing some of his racing life stories with us.

The breakfast is a perfect time to meet new people and find out about their interests in racing and PRI.  We traded stories of our racing interests and what things were like in each of our parts of the country. 

After being welcomed by the people that bring us PRI and gaining insights into where the racing industry is going it was time to meet Tony.

Tony is not only a gifted racing driver, he is a very entertaining story teller, and he wasn’t shy about sharing some of his challenges and the lessons of racing life. 

Soon it was time for us to head for the vast showroom floors and start exploring all the exhibits and attending the many seminars that PRI offers.

As I wandered the floor I recognized many familiar brands as well as some new ones.

Hunter technology had their product line on display and were able to give you a live demo of how their products worked.

I talked with the representative as to how their alignment machines worked with the needs of track day customers that required something more than a factory spec alignment.

Their machine made it easy to adapt the specifications that a track day vehicle needed to attain and all those custom specs could be stored so that a customer’s setting could would always be available for future track alignments.

We stopped by Creative Racing’s display of equipment that makes it easy to perform corner balancing of your car.

This is a critical step for many track day enthusiasts as they work to improve their driving skills with the best handling possible out of their car.

I stopped by the Full Race display and eyed the many turbocharger upgrades they had featured.  As always, I was drawn to the the Mitsubishi Evo IX turbo upgrade they had available.

Hmm, 590 horse power would be a nice upgrade.

Back to suspensions.  There was a great QA1 display of the many suspension upgrades they offer for the classic American cars and trucks.

This kind of upgrade makes a huge difference in handling capabilities.

QA1 also has some beautiful carbon fiber drive shafts available.

Another suspension upgrade vendor is BMR that had a great display of upgrade options.

The Driveshaft Shop from North Carolina was at the show.  Their display was great to browse.

I was talking with ABRO Balancing Machines Inc. at another display and they told me that the Driveshaft Shop uses their balancer and takes each driveshaft up to 9000 rpm to ensure perfection! 

I have a lot more to share with you, but I need to catch the shuttle to get back to PRI.  More to come!