Daily Archives: January 28, 2008


Hit -40 degrees Celsius at our rural home. Sick. I like the winter car life… but everyone just struggles to survive when it’s like this. The roads reach a whole new condition… -10, -20degrees, somehow the road surface is much more consistent. Now though… feels like danger. Grip slip, grip slip. What looks like cleared asphalt is thin ice. For […]

Calgary is Cold


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StubbyCNAC 2003 was our first taste of real driving competition. Up to that point, I had been doing local auto-x for three years, and Ryan maybe six. I say real competition, because, the local events were always really friendly. Sure, we all wanted to win, but we were all nice and friendly about it. That changed with a national championship on the line. Not that everyone threw such things out the window... Darryl Jones, and Chris Chu were two fellow CSP drivers who we figured would be our biggest challenges. Darryl was from Red Deer, and we'd seen him from time to time in past years at local events in his FB RX7. Chris brought his ITB equipped NA6 Miata from Vancouver where he was the dominant fendered car. A number of other [...]

Cheating at CNAC 2003