After a quarter of a year and atleast 500 games of Mario Kart (Wii of course) I finally got off my ass and got a job. I am working for TRD as a seven post guru now. TRD just opened a new facility north of Charlotte to support Truck, Nationwide, and Cup teams (and Grand Am), and it's pretty nice. Basically, any Toyota team will be able to schedule time on the seven post or other test rigs in the facility, and it's my job to support them. So, now I have worked with or for every manufacturer in… Read More

On Wednesday I woke up at 5 in the morning, jumped in the Mini and headed north on I-77. I got off the highway and headed west on NC Rte 421, the Junior Johnson Highway. I blasted through the shadow of the old North Wilkesboro Speedway, and miles later found myself entering the Benny Parsons Highway. As romantic as this sounds, I wasn't looking for a passport to a bygone racing era or Junior Johnson's moonshine still. My destination was the Johnson County Tennessee Court house in Mountain City,… Read More

I've been away for a while. Too much work lately. But today I had little bit of time and I decided to throw a helmet at someones head...

So I was going to go over to Lowe's last night to watch qualifying and try to do some more networking, but it rained just enough to wash out the entire day. With Charlotte being the home track for alot of teams you usually see some small budget teams or new drivers in a 3rd or 4th team car try to qualify, and it's a shame that they didn't even have a chance yesterday. It will be sad when the franchising comes into play and you can't build a car in your garage and try to qualify. It is one of… Read More

Many of the fans in NASCAR land get really excited about Talladega, as the race is so action packed. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a snoozefest from an engineering point of view. The body rules are so tight that there is little room for development of an awesome low drag package. There are surely gains to be made by making adjustments to the underbody, but these are really hard to measure. One way that the well funded teams try to find these gains is by straight line testing. The install a bunch… Read More