We'll talk more about the driving later this week, so for now here are a few views of today's action.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Darlington Preliminary Results
Over on our standings page we have updated the preliminary points from today's event held in Darlington SC. It was a great day weather wise, and after about an hour and 15 minute drive, NMS arrived in Darlington this morning. In a field of about 60 drivers, Brian placed a tough fought 3rd place out of 7 in E Street, and Robert grabbed 2nd place out of 4 drivers in G Street. With the points earned today, this moves Brian up to 3rd place overall for the ES season, while Robert is now tied for 1st in GS.
We'll talk more about the driving later this week, so for now here are a few views of today's action.
Brian and his friend Ian discuss how to attack the course during the first run group.
After driving here twice in 2013, Brian was back at Darlington for the first time this year.
Brian shows off his NMS logo design on his helmet.
Brian launches into another run at the start line.
We'll talk more about the driving later this week, so for now here are a few views of today's action.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Hutchinson Island Recap and Looking Ahead
The official results are out, and out of 3 Mazdaspeed Miatas comprising all of E Street, Brian was able to bring the #86 car in for a 2nd place finish.
Actual run times:
69.909+1 (I'm pretty sure that's a +4 in real life)
55.199
54.896
55.212
55.177
55.540
The third run at a fastest time of just under 55 seconds was quick enough for a finish of 28th out of a nice round 100 entrants on Sunday. Good to be in the top 1/3 of drivers at the event, though the first place Mazdaspeed Miata was over 2.6 seconds quicker finishing 4th overall, so the bar for improvement remains high.
Follow on board with Brian for 6 runs. Run 1 was particularly fun when the back end broke loose on the first right-hander, destroying the crossover section.
Get ready, Darlington and more piloting through pylons is up in just a few days! With the field shaping up to be another tight competition between no fewer than 6 Miatas in ES, Brian has his eyes set on a second place finish or higher to continue his climb in the season points standings.
Actual run times:
69.909+1 (I'm pretty sure that's a +4 in real life)
55.199
54.896
55.212
55.177
55.540
The third run at a fastest time of just under 55 seconds was quick enough for a finish of 28th out of a nice round 100 entrants on Sunday. Good to be in the top 1/3 of drivers at the event, though the first place Mazdaspeed Miata was over 2.6 seconds quicker finishing 4th overall, so the bar for improvement remains high.
Follow on board with Brian for 6 runs. Run 1 was particularly fun when the back end broke loose on the first right-hander, destroying the crossover section.
Get ready, Darlington and more piloting through pylons is up in just a few days! With the field shaping up to be another tight competition between no fewer than 6 Miatas in ES, Brian has his eyes set on a second place finish or higher to continue his climb in the season points standings.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Haas Formula
One of my favorite types of motor sports is Formula 1 racing. Maybe the attraction is that it's mostly a European dominated sport, with 11 current teams that are all based in England, Switzerland, and Italy. Coming in either 2015 or 2016 though, that will change, with the appearance of a new team in F1, Haas Formula based in Charlotte NC, as in the good ol' U. S. of A, or if you want, 'MURICA!
Being a fan of F1, what makes this amazing is that while the Indy500 and NASCAR get most of the attention here, there have been some great accomplishments by folks from the 50 states in F1. World Champions Phil Hill and Mario Andretti come to mind, as well as Dan Gurney, who not only drove in F1, but also built his own car and won with it in F1.
But what is really exciting about Haas Formula is that even though it is a tough sport to break into, he's going to give it a shot anyway. That's what makes it worth doing, that it's not easy, and that he's willing to try it from the US and still compete against the Europeans at their own sport. I guess the reverse would be someone in England starting an NFL level team from scratch...it's just not going to happen.
I've read a lot of experts that are already predicting that the Haas team will not succeed, but I have to answer them this way. If you were in the situation like Gene Haas, what would you do? In other words, if you were already a very successful business man with enough money to start your own NASCAR team, build your own wind tunnel, employee hundreds of people in the racing business outside of your primary business, what would you want out of life?
The way I see it, in that situation my 3 main choices in life would be:
1: just keep doing what I'm doing
2: retire, sell everything, and sit on the beach drinking rum the rest of my life
3: roll the dice and take a huge gamble on another field, even if people told me I'd fail
Yep, he's going with #3, and jumping into F1 with both feet and millions of dollars to try and be successful at something that is very difficult. I have to admire him for that, and I can't wait to see if the team starts competing in 2015 or 2016 since he has that choice.
Either way, let's start the chant now...USA...USA...USA!!!!
Being a fan of F1, what makes this amazing is that while the Indy500 and NASCAR get most of the attention here, there have been some great accomplishments by folks from the 50 states in F1. World Champions Phil Hill and Mario Andretti come to mind, as well as Dan Gurney, who not only drove in F1, but also built his own car and won with it in F1.
But what is really exciting about Haas Formula is that even though it is a tough sport to break into, he's going to give it a shot anyway. That's what makes it worth doing, that it's not easy, and that he's willing to try it from the US and still compete against the Europeans at their own sport. I guess the reverse would be someone in England starting an NFL level team from scratch...it's just not going to happen.
I've read a lot of experts that are already predicting that the Haas team will not succeed, but I have to answer them this way. If you were in the situation like Gene Haas, what would you do? In other words, if you were already a very successful business man with enough money to start your own NASCAR team, build your own wind tunnel, employee hundreds of people in the racing business outside of your primary business, what would you want out of life?
The way I see it, in that situation my 3 main choices in life would be:
1: just keep doing what I'm doing
2: retire, sell everything, and sit on the beach drinking rum the rest of my life
3: roll the dice and take a huge gamble on another field, even if people told me I'd fail
Yep, he's going with #3, and jumping into F1 with both feet and millions of dollars to try and be successful at something that is very difficult. I have to admire him for that, and I can't wait to see if the team starts competing in 2015 or 2016 since he has that choice.
Either way, let's start the chant now...USA...USA...USA!!!!
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