Newsletters

Dateline: Thursday, October 5, 2023 Second-place result? Look deeper and realize… a first-place season. Q: It’s been more than two months since Indy. What gives? A: Sorry, but I needed some time to think about this one. And I needed [...]

Dateline: Thursday, September 21, 2023 Back by semi-popular demand, a little Sebring Haiku. TURN, bump, bounce, bump, bang, Bounce, bump, BRAKE, bounce, bang, bounce, bump, Bang, bump, launch, land, GO! And that’s just Turn 17. Getting air under the bridge. [...]

Dateline: Friday, August 18, 2023 Ah, yes, Road America. These four miles of asphalt have woven their way through the entirety of team scR’s 27-year motorsports odyssey. We have experienced, in roughly equal measure, great success and great failure at [...]

Dateline: Friday, June 16, 2023 As long-time readers may recall, VIRginia International Raceway was the site of scR motorsports’ first GT4 victory. The year was 2020, COVID was in full swing, and Bill Auberlen and I were just starting to [...]

Dateline: Thursday, May 18, 2023 A: Knock, knock. Q: Who’s there? A: Gotta hike. Q: Gotta hike who? A: Glad you asked! Flat tire, yellow flags, air conditioning from hell. And yet, podiums! P2 at COTA. Feels good to be [...]

Dateline: Thursday, March 30, 2023 Welcome to the second celebration of the 25th anniversary of scR motorsports! And while so far it pretty closely resembles the first celebration of the 25th anniversary of scR motorsports, don’t be fooled by what [...]

Dateline: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Let me just start by admitting that I did a pretty darn poor job this season of finding ways to smile in the midst of our GT4 trials and tribulations. As collateral damage, I also [...]

Dateline: Friday, August 19, 2022 Q: Knock, knock. A: Who’s there? Q: Where’s my newsletter? A: Where’s my newsletter who? Q: Sebring is this coming week and we haven’t heard a peep about Road America. That’s where’s my newsletter who. [...]

Dateline: Sunday, August 14, 2022 Q: Ok, let’s see how this goes: <five syllables here> <seven more syllables here> WHERE’S THE NEWSLETTER? A: This is weird. You’re now using Haiku in the questions? Talk about a role reversal. Q: Desperate [...]

Dateline: Thursday, May 19, 2022 Remember how Sonoma really sucked last month? Q: Here we go again…NOLA sucked too, I suppose? A: No, no, no. Wait just a minute. Stop being so negative. NOLA only sucked in part. Q: Which [...]

Dateline: Thursday, April 14, 2022 Remember how in 2020 Sonoma really sucked? And how in 2021 Sonoma really sucked? Well, surprise, in 2022 Sonoma really sucked. Q: Stop that. You’re always so negative at the start of the season. A: [...]

Dateline: Friday, April 1, 2022 So, here I am at 36,000 feet heading to Sonoma, California. This is supposed to be the exciting, upbeat kick-off newsletter for our first race of the 2022 SRO GT4 SprintX Championship season, but instead [...]

Dateline: Sunday, March 27, 2022 In the spirit of full disclosure, I have been sitting at my keyboard here for the better part of 30 minutes here clicking through the newsletter archive trying to figure out how to launch into [...]

Dateline: Friday, December 2, 2021 A notice from the scR motorsports department of errors and omissions: In the last newsletter, I stated that Spa was in France. Shockingly, it is not. Rather, it is in this little, obscure country called [...]

Dateline: Saturday, October 16, 2021 If it feels like you just got done reading our Indy newsletter, it’s probably because you just got done reading our Indy newsletter. Here in Part III of our year-end trilogy, we present our post-season [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 If it feels like you just got done reading our Sebring newsletter, it’s probably because you just got done reading our Sebring newsletter. Here in Part II of our year-end trilogy, we present our regular [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 The final three events of our 2021 GT4 SprintX season are now relegated to the historical record (assuming that someone keeps a record of this sort of thing), and unfortunately it wasn’t pretty. But maybe [...]

Dateline: Thursday, September 16, 2021 This update finds us in mired in the second half of our incredibly compressed 2021 GT4 SprintX season. Thanks to the cancellation of Mosport back in the spring, we had a twelve-week hiatus between our [...]

Dateline: Thursday, August 26, 2021 I’m back. Oh, I’m back. Back in the saddle again. Yes, I’m back. I’m back. Q: I know you want us to believe that’s an original Haiku. But it’s not. It’s Aerosmith. A: It’s actually [...]

Dateline: Thursday, April 29, 2021 Dateline: Thursday, June 3, 2021 Dateline: Sunday, July 11, 2021 Submitted by an anonymous team scR long-time subscriber: Austin? Virginia? Newsletter void, it screams, screams, “We miss the Haiku!” Q: That seems highly unlikely. Nobody [...]

Dateline: Thursday, March 4, 2021 Space here for Haiku filled only by its absence. Sighs of relief abound! Q: I only got to watch the Sunday race. Looks like another miserable Sonoma weekend. A: Well, no, not really. But yes. Parts were [...]

Dateline: Sunday, February 28, 2021 Experienced, now. Hello Kitty, still absent. Thirty-four returns! Q: This is how you start off the 2021 race season? More bad Haiku? A: Who said it was bad? It took me three solid minutes to come [...]

Dateline: Sunday, October 18, 2020 Lightning McQueen is a hundred feet from his Piston Cup! Q: Why is Lightning McQueen still a hundred feet from his Piston Cup? A: Because Zack’s M3 was too! In a different sort of way, [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Bricks, final litmus. Victory without winning? Yes!  We finish proud. Q: Just couldn’t help yourself with the Haiku, could you? A: No.  No, I couldn’t.  It was a special weekend worthy of more (bad) poetry. [...]

Dateline: Thursday, September 17, 2020 Austin, we return! Eager, smarter, faster, all. Yet results…so meh. Q: What’s up with the Haiku? I thought you were done with that. A: After reflection, I think it makes for a nice executive summary. We [...]

Dateline: Thursday, August 27, 2020 Veteran subscribers and first-time readers alike, welcome to the next chapter of the 2020 GT4 SprintX rollercoaster.  Please keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times, place all loose items in your [...]

Dateline: Sunday, August 16, 2020 Where does the time go? The teenager before he was a teenager. Taken at Watkins Glen, 2003. On Tuesday last week, we dropped the teenager off at Texas A&M University. In four short years (we [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 I have decided that I am not going to write a newsletter for Sonoma. There was truly nothing worth sharing. If you still want to see how we finished, click on this link and you [...]

Dateline: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Q: Isn’t it about time for your next race at Sonoma? A: Absolutely. I’m writing this update at 40,000 feet as United Airlines carries me to California for round three of the 2020 SRO GT4 SprintX [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 As you might recall, in my GT4 SprintX debut at COTA back in March, I peed on my balaclava.  Four months later… What happens when all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place? This! [...]

Dateline: Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Before reading this newsletter, please make sure that you wash your hands. And disinfect the keyboard. And don’t sneeze unless you are wearing a mask. And even then, don’t sneeze as it has become socially [...]

Dateline: Thursday, March 5, 2020 I am pretty sure that this past weekend at the Circuit of the Americas was the single most daunting, intimidating, humiliating, humbling, and educational in my brief 23-year racing career. But it’s amazing how getting [...]

Dateline: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Q: Are you ready to reveal your mystery co-driver yet? A: Heck, yeah!  But can I first tell you about our test day at Road Atlanta last week? Q: Do I have a choice? A: [...]

Dateline: February 1, 2020 Q: Ok, Daytona is over.  Who is your co-driver this season? A: You mean ***REDACTED***? Q: Cute.  You said you would issue the big press release after Daytona! A: Unfortunately, the powers that be over at [...]

Dateline: Saturday, January 18, 2020 Well, here we go again.  Welcome to scR motorsports, the 2020 edition.  I still can’t believe Dana lets me do this.  Sit back and watch in wonder as this hobby continues to spiral completely out [...]

Dateline: Saturday, November 16, 2019 Apparently, the teenager couldn’t resist one more opportunity to tell the story his way…for your reading pleasure. **** Whoever blessed those rains needs to rethink their life choices. Well, that sucked. Yep, couldn’t have said [...]

Dateline: Thursday, October 17, 2019  Q: This was Las Vegas, right?  The 2019 TCR season Grand Finale? A: Correct. Q: Did you finally get a little bit of racing luck?  You were in Vegas, after all. A: Nope.  Not even [...]

Dateline: Thursday, September 19, 2019 Q: This was Road America, right?  Your second-to-last event of the 2019 TCR season? A: Correct. Q: Did you finally get a little bit of racing luck? A: Nope.  Not even close. Q: So you [...]

Dateline: Thursday, August 29, 2019 We are so, so close.  All we need now is a little bit of racing luck.  Not a lot.  But just enough to get the job done. Does that sound familiar?  Welcome to Watkins Glen, [...]

Dateline: Sunday, September 1, 2019 I bought a t-shirt. Why didn’t your dad win? Clearly, t-shirts are not the answer to the problem. On the other hand, maybe you just need to buy another one! I’m sure we have extras. [...]

Dateline: Thursday, August 29, 2019   Let’s start with the important stuff…   How has the legendary #34 not won a race yet?  Come on, the season’s more than half over. For those of you born in the 90’s, Peyton [...]

We are so, so close.  All we need now is a little bit of racing luck.  Not a lot.  But just enough to get the job done. Heading three-wide into Turn 1 batting for the lead.  We are finally up [...]

Dateline: Thursday, June 6, 2019 For those not in the habit of following international sports car racing, the month of June is typically dominated by a certain 24-hour-long race in France.  Held in the otherwise obscure town of Le Mans, [...]

Dateline: May 5, 2019 Here we go again…back by popular (?) demand, Zack has decided to craft his own scR newsletter, this time based on our exploits at VIR. If after reading you are intrigued and want to replay the [...]

Dateline: Friday, April 26, 2019 In advance of our third TCR Championship event of the season at VIR, I had composed a wonderful script that involved Act I storylines about the miraculous collarbone recovery, quickly finding pace at the new [...]

Dateline: March 26, 2019 So, it has been about one week now since the concrete wall in Turn 9A made a significant impact (I’m here all week, folks) on our inaugural TCR racing season.  While this wasn’t exactly how the [...]

Dateline: March 26, 2019 So, it has been about one week now since the concrete wall in Turn 9A made a significant impact (I’m here all week, folks) on our inaugural TCR racing season.  While this wasn’t exactly how the [...]

Dateline: Sunday, March 10, 2019 It wasn’t supposed to end like this… Thumbs up out the window, but I don’t think there is enough Hello Kitty duct tape to make this better. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.  Let’s [...]

Dateline: March 8, 2019 Greetings from the streets of St. Petersburg!  We are off to a fantastic start.  On Friday we managed to climb to the top of the leaderboard.  Qualifying tomorrow will be a new challenge, but we are [...]

Dateline: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 It wasn’t supposed to start like this… The maiden voyage ended up in the middle of…a muddy field.  Classy. But we are getting ahead of ourselves.  Let’s back up the calendar a few days. It’s [...]

Dateline: October 9, 2018 Road Atlanta Race Coverage Now Available For Online Viewing In case you missed the live streaming of our last race at Road Atlanta, Ferrari has graciously decided to post the highlights on their website.  Our #234 [...]

Dateline: September 29, 2018 Kids.  Their development can be synthesized into three distinct phases.  In the early years they command all of your spare time, but at least they don’t eat much.  But time passes and they begin to eat [...]

Dateline: September 15/16, 2018 Q: This was the final race of the year for the 458 Challenge, right? Exactly.  As you might recall from our last update, our performance at Watkins Glen moved us up to second place in the [...]

Dateline: August 13, 2018 Watkins Glen Race Coverage Now Available Online In case you missed the live streaming of our last race at Watkins Glen, Ferrari has graciously decided to post the highlights on their website.  Our #234 Risi Competizione [...]

Dateline: July 28/29, 2018 For a refreshing change of format, this installment of our 2018 Ferrari Challenge newsletter will be crafted in “Q&A” format.  Since I will be responsible for both the Q’s and the A’s, I’m not really sure [...]

Dateline: May 5/6, 2018 The Sequel Is Never As Good As The Original Remember how well our season started at the Circuit of the Americas back in March?  Well, our follow-up performance this past weekend at Laguna Seca was about [...]

Dateline: March 10/11, 2018 Green Green Green Green! Well, this certainly is a great way to start to the season.  And no, I’m not referring to the new transmission, the new headlight, the new front fascia, or the new front [...]

Dateline: February 19/20, 2018 Has it really been four months since we were playing bumper cars at Homestead?  Man, do I hate the off season. Monday, February 19th Risi Competizione / scR motorsports kicked off the 2018 season together this [...]

Dateline: November 22, 2017 Watching From Afar When we last checked in, our season-ending Homestead performance put us in third place in the 2017 North American Ferrari Challenge, stateside edition.  This was in spite of the fact that we had [...]

Dateline: September 30/October 1, 2017 How You Get It Done It took exactly ten laps, but finally we had caught back up to #264 and #228 and their battle for third and fourth place.  Coming around Turn 6, Rick came [...]

Dateline: September 15/16, 2017 Ferrari Challenge Circuit of the Americas (COTA), Reader’s Digest Version The trophy count for Risi Competizione/Ferrari of Houston/Ferrari of The Woodlands continues to increase as our rookie season unfolds!  With a third-place finish on Friday and [...]

Dateline: August 12/13, 2017 Ferrari Challenge Road America, Reader’s Digest Version In just our third weekend competing in the 2017 North American Ferrari Challenge, we reached the top step of the podium!  But it wasn’t all glory.  Unlike at Montreal, [...]

Dateline: June 10/11, 2017 Ferrari Challenge Montreal, Reader’s Digest Version Well, we finally got to the podium with others present!  Starting from the pole, posting the fastest race lap, and ending up on the second step of the podium in [...]

Dateline: May 13/14, 2017 Let’s Start At The End – Sunday, May 14 – Race 2 Finally settled into a groove after the first-lap melee, we found ourselves in the seventh position (P7) out of 18 cars, wiping out most [...]

Dateline: April 21, 2017 *click* *hummmmm* Is this thing on? *tap tap tap* Welcome back, fans, family, and followers of scR motorsports!  It has been a LONG while since our last newsletter update, but here we are ready to fire [...]

Dateline: March 28, 2015 An Unsolicited Manuscript: The Italian Yardstick Seven days have now passed, and I am lying in bed unable to sleep.  Again.  There is a constant dialog going on between my right and left frontal lobes, each [...]

Dateline: June 15/16, 2013 Original Introduction I have now checked every box on my bucket list.  The rest of my life will only be a disappointment.  I have been spoiled beyond the point of repair, and will forever be hoping [...]

Dateline: April 13/14, 2013 Location: Watkins Glen, New York Track: Watkins Glen International Event: ChumpCar Dual 7.5-Hour Enduro Entrants: 96 ChumpCar Competitors Objective: Turn ChumpCar's World Upside Down Warning: certain portions of this newsletter may be slightly exaggerated, or, in [...]

Dateline: September 15/16, 2012 My, How Time Flies When You're Not Writing Newsletters! Last time you heard from us, Caherty had just hit the wall in NASCAR Turn 3 at MIS.  That was back in…August.  Yikes! A lot has transpired [...]

Dateline: August 25/26, 2012 Our finest hour? Two, make that three, weeks have now passed since the checkered flag flew at Michigan International Speedway, concluding our second semi-triumphant, incredibly caloric, and completely irrational Chump Car race weekend of 2012.  Frantic [...]

Dateline: April 21/22, 2012 The Road America Curse For those of you who are keeping track of such things, this scR newsletter is the latest in a series that dates back to 1997.  That's right - we have been doing [...]

Dateline: July 9/10, 2011 ChumpCar put on notice: the Saturn Art Car has arrived! Every been to Wampum, Pennsylvania?  Chances are, probably not.  However, last weekend Wampum was ground zero for our second Saturn Art Car ChumpCar World Series outing.  [...]

Dateline: June 11/12, 2011 13.8 hours in a Saturn at TWS Just like old times…but then again, not… The human-interest angle newsletter introduction It all started with a disease.  Or maybe we should call it a "condition" to be more [...]

Dateline: December 5/6, 2009 The semi-triumphant return of scR motorsports Here we go again... As most of you have long since forgotten, scR motorsports last competed in door-to-door SCCA Club Racing competition over six years ago.  Hopefully nobody remembers that [...]

Dateline: December 10, 2003 Season finale Happy holidays, scR fans and followers. It's that time of year where the race cars are put into hibernation, the snow begins to fall, and the plans for 2004 are formulated. James' strong 5th [...]

Dateline: September 20, 2003 Sorry for the delay! In highly uncharacteristic fashion, the scR motorsports crew has gone, well, most of the entire ITA race season without an update newsletter. Blame the frantic schedule, blame the newfound baby responsibilities, blame [...]

Dateline: April 19/20, 2003 An Early Season Start James Walker, John Comeskey, and a small team of scR crew members opened up the Central Division road racing season with a double regional at Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP) during the April [...]

Dateline: March 17, 2003 Here we go again… Greetings scR friends, family, and followers! While it has been a while since our last official team newsletter, there has been a flurry of activity in preparing all three cars for their [...]

Dateline: October 5/6, 2002 scR 2002 finale at Mid-Ohio With only three race weekends on the combined scR motorsports race agenda, our season-ending event was a pull-out-the-stops assault on our favorite 2.4 mile stretch of Ohio blacktop.  Six teams could [...]

Dateline: August 31/September 1, 2002 scR double win at Grattan In a weekend filled with AWOL alternators, booming exhaust systems, errant shift cables, failed wheel bearings, and melted fuel pump harnesses, the scR motorsports camp kicked off our first full [...]

Dateline: July 13, 2002 scR 2002 is underway! Yes, we are still alive at scR motorsports! In spite of the lack of e-mail updates, the team has been busy building cars, getting licensed, and having babies… That's right, both the [...]

Dateline: Spring, 2002 scR motorsports grows for 2002 Welcome to the inaugural scR motorsports newsletter for 2002!  While the snow is still on the ground in Michigan, we have been planning our season since the checkered flag flew at the [...]

Dateline: October 6/7, 2001  Where do we go from here? As we close the book on what was undoubtedly our most successful race season to date, we are in the unusual situation of trying to determine what it is going [...]

Dateline: September 1/2, 2001  Grattan and the Glen As many of you have noticed, it has been quite a wait since the last scR newsletter – over two months in fact! While we have been neglecting the computer keyboard, we [...]

Dateline: July 28/29, 2001 Mid-Ohio, Round 2 and such Contrary to popular belief, the team here at scR motorsports has not fallen off the face of the earth.  Quite the contrary, we have had non-stop action since our last newsletter, [...]

Dateline: June 30/July 1, 2001 …and they’re off! After almost eight months of rest, relaxation, and rebuilding, team scR took to the track this past weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.  With so much time out of the seat, [...]

Dateline: November 10/11/12, 2000 A Well-Deserved Rest Now that December is right around the corner, it is finally time to sit back and take a good, hard look at the 2000 season.  This comes, of course, after a speed-laden October [...]

Dateline: September 23/24, 2000 How Long Until the ARRC? Overheard in the paddock this weekend at Mid-Ohio: Observer: "Hey James, you sure have a lot of crew help!" James: "Yea, we keep them entertained and well fed." Crew member: "You [...]

Dateline: September 9/10, 2000 Finally! This race report is going to be fun to write...team scR is finally cresting the learning curve, and boy, does it feel great!  Once again, we had a weekend filled with firsts, only this time [...]

Dateline: August 19/20, 2000 Firing on all four cylinders at last! After clearing our initial learning curve hurdles, it seems that the #34 Saturn is finally hitting its stride.  If our performance this past weekend at Waterford is any indication, [...]

Dateline: July 29, 2000 Watkins Glen, Reader’s Digest Version Our first “big track” race of 2000 brought with it a host of new parts (bearings, spindles, tires, and brakes), crew members (Marcus Mansfield made his official scR debut), and teething [...]

Dateline: July 8/9, 2000 Grattan, et. al. Things have been really hopping here at team scR since our last update – race car improvements, driver training, broken parts (!), and more trophies make up just a small part of the [...]

Dateline: May 27/28, 2000 Let’s set this track on fire! As you can well imagine, things were hopping over the three-week span between our season opener at Waterford and our first SCCA Regional competition at Grattan.  The oil pan gasket [...]

Dateline: May 6/7, 2000 …and they’re off! When we last checked in with team scR, Mark, Steve, and James (yes, they let me help) were busily preparing both the new ITA-spec motor and the big, gaping hole underhood for yet [...]

Dateline: Spring, 2000 scR 2000 It seems like it's been a long time since the last scR newsletter...and it has, I guess.  Being the 'off-season' makes it difficult to focus on the upcoming race year (yea, right!), but rest assured [...]

Dateline: September 19, 1999 The Bigger Picture September 12, 1999.  9:00 PM.  A Sunday evening like every other, exactly one week ago today.  Beer in hand, I sat down at this same keyboard and began to generate the story of [...]

Dateline: Summer, 1999 SSC Competition Updates Although things have been slow in the newsletter department lately, our SSC team has been busy tearing up the track.  To sum it up...scR has racked up 10 wins in 12 starts!  Needless to [...]

Dateline: Spring, 1999 Here we go again! Well, it has been an exciting 5 weeks here at team scR – our team has expanded to a 2-car operation, we have added a second driver, we will be competing in two [...]

Dateline: Winter, 1999 Make your reservations for the RunOffs now! Welcome back for another year of scR motorsports. We have been busily preparing for what proves to be our biggest year ever – our first concerted run at the National [...]

Dateline: October 11, 1998 The 1998 Valvoline RunOffsâ (with awesome photos courtesy of Keith Averill, Gordon Jolley, Roz Rosintoski, and my mom) Time to completely use up the color printer cartridge, since this will be the final scR newsletter for [...]

Dateline: September 5/6, 1988 Mosport National Race Report, eh The National Points have been tallied.  The entry forms have been mailed.  The hotel reservations have been finalized.  The crew members have been recruited.  It’s official - we're heading to the [...]

Dateline: August 22/23, 1998 Mid-Ohio National Race Report Editor’s note:  photos are from miscellaneous races from earlier in the season – not from Mid-Ohio.  Our camera failed to make the trip… Since very little car prep was required following the [...]

Dateline: August 8/9, 1998 Grattan National Race Report Going into the race at Grattan, we were in 9th place in our Division, but the drivers in 10th and 11th were within a single point or two of catching or passing [...]

Dateline: July 25/26, 1998 Road America, Part II Coming off of a dismal outing at IRP, team scR was loaded and ready for Road America – the radiator was replaced, the front fascia was repaired, and the cooler was full [...]

Dateline: July 11/12, 1998 Another weekend of ‘firsts’ at IRP June 4, 1997: “So anyway, I missed that damn shift and smoked the front tires. I let the car go straight off the access road at the right of the [...]

Dateline: June 27/28, 1998 The June Sprints at Road America Hey, get this – we have real-time pictures from this race right here in the newsletter!  Thanks, Lane, for your unselfish giving of time, incredible speed, and bottomless talent.  I [...]

Dateline: June 13/14, 1998 scR Watkins Glen National Race Report Another weekend, another battle scar <sigh>.  In an attempt to keep this newsletter short, I will make the pictures really big (although they are new pictures from Mid-Ohio, not from [...]

Dateline: May 30/31, 1998 scR Mid-Ohio National Race Report And so, the Strawberry Kiwi Gatorade saga continues… After a 5-week break, team scR finally got it back on the track last weekend at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio.  Mid-Ohio is one [...]

Dateline: April 25/26, 1998 scR GingerMan National Race Report Well, if nothing else this weekend, I learned NOT to bring Strawberry Kiwi Gatorade to the next event.  All six bottles were left floating in the cooler Sunday night, while all [...]

Dateline: April, 1998 Last minute excitement at team scR! So by now, everyone has been wondering (maybe), “where the hell is the newsletter for April?”   Well…we’ve been a little more than a little busy getting ready for 1998.  Luckily there [...]

Dateline: March, 1998 This just in from Denver!  The SCCA has gone mad… …but at scR motorsports, we’re not complaining!  A bit of history for those of you who are not intimately familiar with the official sanctioning body for Showroom [...]

Dateline: January 1998 Building for 1998 Welcome race fans! Here we are gearing up for 1998. Just a few updates since the holiday break... Recaro North America has officially committed to sponsoring team scR for 1998! As a result, the [...]

Dateline: January 1998 This article appeared in the Detroit Region's SCCA newsletter, Open Exhaust, in January of 1998.  In essence, we rolled out for the readers exactly what team scR is all about and how much fun we have doing [...]

Dateline: December 1997 Planning for 1998 Happy holidays, one and all! This will probably be our last communication prior to the holiday break, so I thought we would pass along some preliminary plans for 1998. This will, of course, give [...]

Dateline: November, 1997 The race season really doesn't have an "off season" - there's just a period of time when there is snow on the race track. Prep work and sponsor maintenance is a 12-month activity. At least it keeps [...]

Dateline: September 27/28, 1997 Ah - our season finale at Blackhawk Farms. What a way to close out a great rookie season. Too bad all these tracks are so far from home! Blackhawk Farms Regional Races # 9 & 10 [...]

Dateline: September 6/7, 1997 By now you would think we were tired of this track, but each time we manage to learn something new. There's probably something to be learned from that, but make your assumptions. I love this track, [...]

Dateline: August 23/24, 1997 This was to be team scR's trial by fire - our first National event. Running with the big guys. Racing with past National Champions. The ones you read about every month in SportsCar magazine. The ones [...]

Dateline: August 2/3, 1997 Having spent 23 years in upstate New York, I consider The Glen to be my home track. This is where I attended my first Porsche Club School five years ago in my 93 SL2 and got [...]

Dateline: July 26/27, 1997 No, we never once did forget the clipboard, although we (I?) did manage to leave it on the hotel counter as we were checking out for the weekend on Sunday. Nice save, Pete. What a great [...]

Dateline: July 5/6, 1997 Mid-Ohio Regional Races # 2 & 3 scR motorsports is off to a flying start this season. July 4, 5, and 6 we had the opportunity to visit (for the first time) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Park. [...]

Dateline: June 7/8, 1997 After months and months of planning, wrenching, and running up the credit cards, may we proudly present the inaugural scR racing report. Hope you find it a good read! Caution: you may become addicted if you [...]

Dateline: May 26, 1997 Autocross Update It lives! The Memorial Day weekend was spent as follows: Friday: Installed the rear glass, exterior body panels, and all lamps/lenses Saturday: Installed all interior trim (all but driver's seat and harness), fire system, [...]

Dateline: March 10, 1997 74 days until driver’s school! Well, a decision has been reached and money has been put forth. I guess that makes it official. l will be doing my best to stay out of trouble this year [...]