We have posted the 2011 Grand-Am schedule. Click here to see.

As one of my friends put it, I’m going to a party and there’s going to be a race there! The Grand Prix of Trois Rivieres is quite the event. I was there two years ago with Mazda MX-5 Cup and it’s a huge party.

The race event was short in comparison to most of our events. We had no promoter test day and our event was held over the course of a day and a half. Normally we run with the GS cars but the two groups were separated and they had all of their practice, qualifying, and their race on the same day. Our schedule was initially set up the same and we were only scheduled out on track on Friday. We ended up having a schedule change so we had two practices and our qualifying on Friday with our race on Saturday morning.
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New Teammate John Bosch

A few things have changed since the Mid Ohio race weekend. Chris Brown, my former co driver decided not to finish out the season with us so I was racing with another one of the guys that has run a few races with us this year, John Bosch. We had three cars this weekend; Peter London was co driving with Boris Said and Ted Giovanis was co driving with Shawn Dewey.

We arrived on Wednesday night and low and behold, no hotel issues! That seems to have been the start of my last few race weekends. We arrived to the track on Thursday and missed the 1^st session which turned out to be 2 laps. They had an issue on the 1^st lap, black flagged the session, sent everyone out again, and then black flagged the session again. We didn’t miss much at all. The 2^nd session went well and I ended up driving the full session. The track seemed to come back to me and I was pretty satisfied for my first session on track. John and I split the 3^rd session and we decided we needed to make some changes. The car was oversteering quite a bit and was pretty unmanageable. Every time I tried to get on the gas the rear end stepped out. Read more

Updated!

New Photos in these galleries:

Watkins Glen 2010

Limerock Park 2010

Friends and Family 2010

Over 30 minutes of racing videos added:

Driver change practice at Barber

MX-5 crashes at VIR

Cobalt Crash at VIR in front of Chris Brown

Subaru punts Chris Brown off track in a turn at Watkins Glen

Bits and Pieces from  VIR

Watkins Glen Qualifying

Watkins Glen Racing Action

Mid Ohio June 2010

Well, it started off as a great weekend and looked like we were going to finally have a good race and finish. I hadn’t driven Mid Ohio since the SCCA Runoffs in 2005 and was really excited to be going back. It’s always been a fun track for me and the fans that come out for the races are great!

We arrived Wednesday night on the midnight flyer again (that seems to just be the start of my bad luck recently) and got to the hotel in Mansfield at almost 3am. I booked the hotel at the beginning of the season through Expedia. When we got to the hotel, the lady at the front desk gave me a smoking room. When I opened the door, the smoke literally poured out from the room. I didn’t even go inside. I went back to the front desk and asked her for a non smoking room as my reservation stated. She was very unaccommodating and said she didn’t have any other rooms and couldn’t help me. This is my third horrible experience with Expedia and the hotels I’ve booked through them in as many race weekends. We ended up calling around and finally ended up at the Country Inn and Suites. The front desk was very nice and gave us a great deal. I think everything in Mansfield and Lexington was sold out so we were very lucky. Read more