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  • Road Trip – returning home

    It was another two-day drive back home.  The first night I spent just outside of Indianapolis, IN.  Traffic was not too bad and construction delays have been minimal.   I made sure to start early and the dark mornings are… Continue reading

  • Gasoline

    So in West Virginia I paid $3.99.9 for a gallon of gasoline.  It was 93 octane since my car demands it.  Turbo, remember? It left me wondering if we should move to a price of liters instead of gallons.  It… Continue reading

  • Road Tripping to MN

    I got up at six in the morning and cleaned myself up so that I could get the free continental breakfast the hotel offers.  It was okay. By seven I was off.  Heading down the highway to Iowa and then… Continue reading

  • Road Tripping

      Today I headed off on a personal road trip.  I will drive for two days so that I can spend Mothers Day weekend with my parents.  They live in southwestern Minnesota and I just hope that the snow has… Continue reading

  • This is the WEEL Deal

    Today I dropped by the NCSU (North Carolina State University WEEL labs and watched as the team worked feverously to complete their entry in the 2008 Formula Hybrid  competition that will take place at the New Hampshire International Speedway on… Continue reading

  • High Rock Raceway – North Carolina gets a road racing track

    Between Charlotte and Greensboro, off of I-85 in western North Carolina a new road racing track is being born.  It has been designed by no less than Elliot Forbes-Robinson and will be a 2.15 mile long road course that will… Continue reading

  • Danica Wins!

    This is great news for Danica and the IRL. Danica won the Japan Indy 300 and deserves it.  She is the first woman to win an IndyCar series race.  When she started in Indy racing back in 2005 she became… Continue reading

  • Let’s Rescue Danica from Herself

    CART and IRL have merged, or rather CART has tanked and IRL agreed to pick up the pieces: drivers, teams and all.  The IRL is now living by the golden rule – he that has the gold makes the rules. … Continue reading

  • This is one Splinter you will Like

    Just off a country road and tucked into the woods north of Durham, North Carolina, the spirit of the deHavilland Mosquito has been rekindled.  This time it will be taking to the roads and not the skies.  Prior to the… Continue reading

  • Does Speed Kill?

    A better way to put this situation is that it’s not how fast you are going as much as how fast are you stopping.  The human body can only take so much deceleration before it ends up injured.  In an… Continue reading