The inaugural NASA Nationals East Coast was held at Road Atlanta August 29-31, 2014. In attendance competing in the Factory Five Challenge class were Paul Arnold, David Evans, Roger Fusse, Paul Kaiser, Eric Kostamaa, Mike Tuck, and I John George. The weekend predicted to be great weather a little on the hot and humid side, with two 30min qualifying races on Friday/Saturday setting the grid for the 45min Nationals race. FFRs were in Group B along with SU/ST1/2/3 cars but with our own start. Thursday was an optional Test/Tune day.

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NASA Nationals East Coast 2014 at Road Atlanta is upon us this weekend Friday-Sunday, I will be on track competing in the Factory Five Racing Challenge Series class defending my 2012 Championship win. Racing in my class are 7 fellow competitors in identically prepared FFR Challenge cars, the Nationals event consists of two qualifying races setting the grid for the main Nationals race. Schedule below. I will try turn on the live incar video stream for the races in bold.

Live schedule

Racer Conneceekend

Live Incar FFR#48 Video Stream

Thurs test/tune all day:

Friday Qualifying Race #1:

Saturday Qualifying Race #2:

Sunday Nationals Race:

Getting ready for Nationals fellow racers were eager to attend NASA-SouthEast Hotlanta event. In attendance with their FFR Challenge cars Mike Tuck, David Evans, Scott McKay and me. Chris Allen also attended with his SpecE30. Brendan Dougherty, Joe Camire and Pat Wehmeyer were also in attendance to help wrench on cars. The weekend laid out in typical fashion, Friday test day, Sat/Sun practice/quali/sprint races.

Continue reading Race Report – Road Atlanta Aug 1-3, 2014 →

The Ultimate Track Car Challenge is an event put on by the Grassroots Motorsports magazine as a no-holds-barred track competition aiming to find the fastest machine on four wheels. A new FFR 818R was built by the Factory Five gang with the goal of setting a flyer lap (sub 2min) at VIR during the Grassroots Motorsports UTCC 2014. This build was amazingly done in less than one month, with a 170,000mi used engine, all while being filmed by a camera crew for a possible upcoming reality tv series. Many racers will tell you racecars after getting finished need a couple of race track events to work out all of the bugs, well we didn’t have that luxury with this new Red/White FFR 818R.

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Limerock is and always will be a special place for me, that is where all this got started back in 2005 with me attending Skip Barber Race School. Needless to say I was ecstatic hearing NASA-NE will be back and to boot unmuffled! For those who dont know Limerock has an extremely strict noise limit, 87db with my car over 95db have not a chance in the world to race there unless the sound limits are removed which is exactly what happened this past weekend. On top of that there are no track events on Sundays as the town Limerock is in has had this rule for ages and will never change. The July 4 weekend track activities started Thursday with a test/tune, Friday sprint race and a scheduled 3.5hr enduro, and double sprint races on Saturday.

Continue reading Race Report – Limerock July 3-5, 2014 →

New racetrack, fresh pavement, cannot get any better then this! Thompson Speedway a 1.7mi road course located in north east corner of Connecticut saw FFR racers Jim Schenck, Pat McMahon, John Kabacinski and John George in attendance for the inaugural NASA Northeast Race weekend June 20-22, 2014.

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I will be at Thompson CT this weekend and will be live streaming from the racecar. Friday is Test/Tune, Saturday and Sunday are sprint races.

Video feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jgracing

Schedule of the weekend when stream will be live (all EST, schedule may change.) NASA-Northeast has not posted a Saturday/Sunday schedule yet but here are the overall times..

Friday June 20

Sat June 21

 7:00am Registration / Tech Open
 7:45 Instructor Meeting in classroom
 8:00am Drivers Meeting
 9:00am Cars on Track
 10:30 Hyperdrive Registration
 12:00 Lunch
 6pm Off track

Sun June 22

10:00am Registration/Tech
 11:15 Track Walk
 12 noon - 7pm Cars on Track

Full schedule here: http://nasane.com/

Mark and Brendan Dougherty have replaced the shortblock in my car since VIR with one of Wayne’s spares (thanks Wayne!), got it in the car just in time for the event. My old new shortblock somehow bent the crank at VIR by .015 we are suspecting a bad Fluidyne balancer as we reused it from the last block which exploded at Atlanta.

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I will be at NJMP Thunderbolt track this weekend and will be live streaming from the racecar. Friday is test/tune, Saturday and Sunday are sprint races.

Video feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jgracing

Schedule of the weekend when  stream will be live (all EST, schedule may change)

Friday May 16:

10:15 – 11:00am Race Cars

1:00 – 1:30pm Race Cars

3:00 – 3:30pm Race Cars

4:30 – 5:00pm Race Cars

5:30 – 6:00pm Race Cars

Saturday May 17:

10:20 – 10:40am  20min Practice Thunder Group

1:30 – 1:45pm 15min Qualifying Thunder Group

3:30 – 4:00pm 30min Race- Thunder Group

Sunday May 18:

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 25min Thunder Practice/Qualifying

3:15 PM – 3:45 PM 30min NASA Thunder Race

Full schedule here: http://nasane.com/

Great weather, great crew, re-paved track, paved paddoc area (yes no more pebbles!), a sighting of Paul Kaiser, and an issues.

Continue reading Race Report – VIR March 21-23, 2014 →