First race of the season is only few days away. I’ve been going over my car and make sure that all the nuts and bolts that we loosen during the off season are tighten again. This includes the nuts behind the wheel. We had very little chance to test, this off season. It is a combination of bad weather and an injury I got from a snowboarding accident on Christmas day. 8 weeks later, and after numerous physical therapy, I’m still nursing my left shoulder. This hasn’t stopped me to visit local indoor kart facility to try to keep myself sharp.
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Firstly, I must apologize for being tardy in updating my blog. We got very busy and it all started in August when we blew up our newly built World Challenge engine. From then on, we had a very tight schedule. With races after races only a week or two weeks apart at most. The preparation had really kicked my ass.

We still wasn’t sure of what the cause of the blew up in August. I do think there is a strong possibility that my 02 sensor was failing during tuning and we’ve been running lean. The pistons was sent to the lab but the result was inconclusive. (more…)

Cool night picture

I’m skipping the race report this month as we are not concentrating in Honda Challenge this season, and we are using it to test for World Challenge. The objective of this test, is to try several options that are presented to us and see which one is more advantageous to us. We come fully prepared and brought all our equipments, including setup pads and scales.

All that went to shit really quickly. The first lap on the warm up session the car went kablamo.   We haven’t even got to push it yet, as I was keeping the rev in check until we know for sure everything is ok.  We didn’t bring any spare engine, as this is a brand new engine.  In the effort to make the swap as quickly as we can, we split up duties among the crew.  Wayne heads the engine removal process helped by Ken and Chris.  Me, Jimmy and Jeff went back to RedZone, which is 2.5 hours away to pick up the engine.  Unfortunately we weren’t able to finish in time to make the day race.  Our entire plan for the weekend pretty much went down the drain. (more…)

Last race weekend was the first time I brought my car to a race weekend and actually didn’t drive.  I handed the “key” so to speak to Tom Lepper and I was sitting on the side line talking strategy and setting the car up for Lepper.  It feels kind of weird, but I enjoyed it as it gives me more time to relax. (more…)

I’ve decided to write a blog to give our fans more insight on what’s going on in my mind and the direction the team are going. I will be the first to admit that I’m not a good writer, so please excuse any grammatical error.

I’ll start by letting you guys know that we will loose one of our valuable team member, Charlee Xiong. He is leaving us to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma with his family to possibly do chicken farming. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about it. I have no idea he is so sick and tired to do automotive stuff! Charlee has been with us the longest, out of all our team member.  He rose to the rank and was last year crew chief.  He has a vibrant personality and always bring the team spirit up, on and off the track.  We wish him good luck and success in his future endeavor, even if it is chicken farming. He will be greatly missed by all of us. (more…)