SCCA – Photos From KCRSCCA Solo Event 2
I’m getting quicker at turning around these photos. …now if I could just get quicker in the car. If you were running this past weekend and don’t see your car, let me know. These were the sharpest and best images, but Jeremy and I took over 2000 images over the weekend! I’m sure we have at least one shot of everyone somewhere. Look for Jeremy’s article recapping the Novice School and Event #2 later this week. Kansas City... [Read More...]
SCCA – Kansas City Region Solo Season Kicks Off!
The Kansas City Region SCCA Solo season kicked off this last weekend, and what a very enjoyable start it was! It was a weekend packed full of racing. The off season was way too long and was finally coming to an end in Kansas City. I had the car packed up and ready to go Friday afternoon. Friday night I was so excited about getting back into the season at home that I could hardly sleep. I woke up at about 5:30 am on Saturday wide awake and adrenaline... [Read More...]
Episode 178.1 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast: SCCA Edition
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Craig Wilcox hustling his D-Stock MINI around the course at a KCRSCCA Solo Event. This is the national-caliber car Jeremy will be driving in Georgia at the Match TourOur SCCA Reporter, Jeremy Salenius, is headed down to Georgia to compete in the first SCCA Solo Match Tour event of the year. He gives us an overview of what the unique Match Tour format is and how it’s different from a regular Solo... [Read More...]
SCCA – RallyCross Season Is Here!
Ever since the first Kansas City Region SCCA rallycross event last October, I’ve been anxiously awaiting our second. Yesterday, registration was opened for the first of four rallycross events the region has planned for 2013. The event will be at the same location as last year’s event, at a member’s property south of Garnett, Kansas. The field has some elevation change which makes for a challenging course as for half of the circuit... [Read More...]
SCCA – The Stig Gives a Passenger Her First Ride at Speed
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SCCA – KCRSCCA Halloweenie Event
The Kansas City Region of the Sports Car Club of America held its final Solo event of the season this past weekend at the Metropolitan Community College Precision Driving Center. This final event was in part solo race, part masquerade ball, and all charity event. All of the profits from the event were donated to the club’s various charities as was the money raised from donations from the club’s various sponsors and partners including Patterson... [Read More...]
SCCA – Kansas City Region’s First Rallycross
First of all, let me say, HOLY CRAP WAS THAT A TON OF FUN!!! This past weekend the Kansas City Region of the Sports Car Club of America held its very first rallycross event. It was a new experience for everyone as only five out of the thirty participants had ever rallycrossed before. Most of the competitors were very experienced autocrossers, and there were a few like me who have only scant experience at autocross and none at rallycross. Fortunately,... [Read More...]
SCCA – Photog Stinks It Up in KCR Solo Event 10
It’s a good thing for me that Mr. Pechin didn’t show up last Sunday for the Kansas City Region of the Sports Car Club of America (KCRSCCA) Solo Event #10 held at the Metropolitan Community College Blue River Campus’s Precision Driving Center. I stunk it up!! Fill with confidence, or more accurately overconfidence, I went out to attack what I thought was going to be a fairly straightforward circuit. Dan Wheeler, the Event Chair and... [Read More...]
SCCA – Learning to DRIVE: A Look at the Kansas City Region SCCA Fall Solo Racing School
Twice every year, the Kansas City Region of the SCCA holds a Solo School in which thirty student drivers, mostly drivers with little or no experience in racing competitively, are paired with instructors to provide them with one-on-one instruction on the sport of Solo racing, or autocross, vehicle dynamics, racing lines, and the art of walking and learning a course. We followed rookie autocrosser Tim Steger through his second solo school experience.... [Read More...]
Learning to DRIVE: An Autocross Documentary
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