March 2012
3 posts
The Ridge (again)
Attending Mini Thunder last month was spectacular. It isn’t often (at least it isn’t often done without incarceration) that we can let our cars breath. When we can let the valves clatter and feel the tires heating and the brakes heating from friction created by excessive speed. It was joyous, there was no competition, it was more pure, mostly dudes just out to experience what...
The Ridge →
The Seattle Area Mini Owners Association (SAMOA) will be touring around hood Canal this Saturday and will also be at the Ridge Motorsports Park and may if allowed do some parade laps at 12. These could possible by the first classic Mini’s to grace this track and we will be there…
Hooked on Driving
I still can’t shake the memory from two weeks ago, screaming into turn 1 at Thunderhill at 100 pennies, triple digits, 100mph. Feeling the car react at speed, that little body roll, hearing the engine and feeling the tires slide just slightly. I wasn’t flogging, I was driving. I’m starting to learn the difference, flogging is thrashing around, like when we learned to...
