Here are some of the videos from last summer posted on Youtube (I plan on using vimeo in the future just because its a little clearer for all the videos that I have seen) so you can check out what my first year of learning was like in the F1000. These are videos from the June Sprints and from the Cat National at Road America in June/July 2008. I’ll add an Autobahn video when I get a chance here to get it uploaded over the next few days.
Cat National
June Sprints
Cars, F1000, Racing, SCCA Club Racing, Stohr
F1000, in car video, June Sprints, Road America, Stohr
So since I promised updates on all the races over the summer I figured I would go in order starting with the biggest event of the year the June Sprints at Road America and shoot through August before I get to the winter projects and other miscellaneous ramblings over the winter here. 
So here we go recapping of one of the first times out running the F1000 after a ton of work from the guys helping me get it together.
First and foremost I gotta thank my friends and family for busting their asses all weekend with me chasing the car all over Wisconsin trying to get it close to working the way I wanted it too (finally figured out something by the race and actually had grip!) and all the FB guys I talked to for being awesome and helpful as all hell and most importantly coming out. A HUGE thanks to Jeff Dinges for helping me sort and work through issues with my car that I was battling all weekend dealing with temps in my car following the same path as Mike B’s as well as figuring out how to get the car balanced aero wise as it was tricky for a newbie and his team. Overall as i was heading to impound I was thinking “damn the weekend after the race felt not to shabby for the sixth race of the career and whopping second in the car.” Whole weekend was a fricking blast and really what racing is all about.
But the bad news is that both Kyle and I got bumped down to 5th and 6th respectively (behind all running cars at the end of the race) for having our rear wings be 4mm to wide. Yep thats right 4mm to wide. 95.4cm versus 95cm per the GCR. It was a kick in the nuts to end a hard weekend that had turned around massively and finally during the race. We had to sit in impound for fricking 2 hours waiting for a decision and that sort of drove the thorn deeper into my side as most of us had long tows home and needed to get on the road. After two hours we got informed we could pay a nice 100 dollars to appeal the decision (how the f can I possibly want to pay 100 bucks to argue with the fact that 95.4 > 95) and then go on to the SOM and appeal a crap ton of more times. What pisses me off most is that according to my crew they measured the wings after quali one and didn’t say a fricking word to us about it. It sure as **** didn’t change size in the time between then and the race for btoh Kyle and I. In the end both Kyle and I just accepted it and moved on. Hopefully karma returns the favor to us.
Thanks guys for all coming out and making the sprints a lot of fun. I know we all didnt have much time for hanging out and BSing but next year when we all have our cars sorted and are whipping up on the Atlantics like Coop and Kyle were we’ll look back and laugh.
More pictures here http://picasaweb.google.com/scca.june.sprints.2008.b/RoadAmericaSCCAJuneSprints2008
Me in the Stohr F1000 at Road America Turn 13 - 2008 June Sprints
Cars, F1000, Racing, Stohr
F1000, June Sprints, Road America, SCCA, Stohr