Good or bad...the start of something new.

The start of something new....

A diary of my adventures with getting started (sort of) in racing.  How better to start something than to parade your missteps, failures, and (hopefully) success in front of the world.  Plus, it has the added benefit of keeping me honest with myself.

I've been wanting (and have with limited success) to be involved in auto racing.  Road racing has always been my passion.  Something about a perfect lap on a twisty course has always seemed poetic, and Le Mans is the pinnacle of it all.  However, the future of club road racing in Southern California is looking bleak.  My prior attempts have been with involvement in SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), however, managing members of the club seem hell bent to see it's end.  There are other clubs, but attendance is down and the competition with it (if club racing is to survive, then there needs to be some consolidation).  So, what's a racer to do...Oval Racing here I come, specifically, dirt oval.

What's the best place to start, there's carts, dwarf, hobby stock...nope, let's go straight to IMCA Modifieds.  A full race chassis with a stock car front clip, and a nearly unlimited engine with a claimer rule (currently $1,050...let's see you build one for that!!)  The class is designed to keep costs down, but not impede the teams with too many rules.  Considering the nation wide success of the series, I'd have to say that it is doing something right.

This blog is all about a middle aged, out of shape guy whom is determined to get started  in a form of racing that he has no experience with.  Hopefully it will be a how to manual, but I'm guessing there will be a lot of what not to do.  Over the next couple of weeks my posts will to get up to speed on all that I've done so far.

Thanks....