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An Airport

Monday, May 17th, 2010

05-15-sw11On Saturday, Ryan pulled the SW11 up to Edmonton for an ASA auto-x at Namao air base.  This isn’t a venue I’ve ever been able to drive.  I guess the three hour drive has been a deterrent, but…

Getting Ready

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

July 4 2002
Yah… I’m pretty much counting the days to auto-x, and I’m not the only one. Ryan emailed me these vids today.  More nostalgia. In 2020 what am I going to think of the sneakers I wear today? I sure…

Cheating at CNAC 2003

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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 [...]

Private Drift Practice

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Ready to RollRyan and I hosted a private drift session today at a potential venue for future drifting events. Eight of us arrived and ran, to show the Westerner Grounds in Red Deer a little bit of drifting. Circumstances limited us to a quarter section of the enormous lot the CSCC uses to hold their auto-x but we still managed a couple simple 2nd gear courses. I hope everyone had fun, and learned a lot! I am certainly hoping for the opportunity to do it again. [...]