Captain Buddha

Ready to Race for 2019!?!?

Yee haw!!!!! The months of January and February are kicking off with some AWESOME racing action!! Who else will be participating!?!?!?!?

• Southeast Conference Majors (Florida Region)
January 3-6, 2019
Homestead-Miami Speedway <——1st time to run there, I LOVE rovals!!!

• Hoosier SCCA Super Tour (Central Florida Region)
January 10-13, 2019
Sebring International Raceway <——1st time to run there, looking forward to it!!!

• Winter Festival Majors (Texas Region)
January 25-27, 2019
MotorSport Ranch Cresson <——first time for it to be a MAJORS!!

• Hoosier SCCA Super Tour (Lone Star Region Polar Prix)
February 7-10, 2019
Circuit of the Americas <——YES, it now includes a test day on Thursday!!!

Link to schedule:
https://www.scca.com/pages/majors-2

Supercharged111

Nope, will be doing a face swap (fenders and bumper covers are consumables), updating brake ducting, targeting ways to reduce pad knockback, scheduling a dyno, and strapping the freshly rebuilt twin screw onto the dually. Racing season in CO kicks off in April.

fatbillybob

Hey Brad,

I will be at homestead and sebring and flyfishing the keys in between both weekends. My car will be based in Atlanta and we race up and down the Eastcoast doing Runoffs at VIR and then Barber on the way home to Cali. Come say Hi! I'm in garage 09 at homestead big orange transporter at Sebring.

carl

dclafleur

I might have to find an excuse to go to Granbury for work the week of the Winter Festival Majors.

Captain Buddha

Hi Carl!!,

Good deal!! For both Homestead and Sebring I'll be in the TRB Autosport/Derhaag "compound" of 3 transporters or so. I'll make it a point to find you! We will be in our coach (hopefully) staying at the track as well. I thought about going down to at least Key Largo since we will be so close....might go make a few client calls over in the Tampa area between Homestead and Sebring - really only 3 days as we will be loading in that Wednesday after Sebring...gong to be a blast! First time for me to drive the new car...woo hoo!! See you there, Carl!

Brad

STANG KILLA SS

Ill try to remeber the COTA date

SIK02SS

Carl!! If you're passing through Brunswick, GA on 95 and have some time give me a shout I'd enjoy getting to catch up. Will you be doing the Atlanta Majors in March or Roebling in June?

fatbillybob

Yes! I will be there for March at Road Atlanta for sure. I would like to go to RR too. I have never raced there. I Have a friend with but transporter and this is our 3rd year racing East of the Rockies. So where I race depends on multiple schedules but ti will be all SCCA. I would love to catch up with you too.

carl

Captain Buddha

Loaded in and ready for testing tomorrow!!!

STANG KILLA SS

i like the new wrap better

Captain Buddha

I was fortunate to drive the Manufacturing News #13 to P3/Podium!!! Thank you Troy Benner, Andy Tagg, Tim Repka and crew at TRB Autosport/Derhaag!!! #mfgnewsweb #scca #manufacturing #racing #podium

Supercharged111

I sniffed around for results but didn't see any. How many car were there?

Captain Buddha

27 total in our group of GT1, GT2, GT3, T1, AS, etc, got 6th overall and 3rd in class. Race Monitor has the results and Live Timing. Making some tweaks for tomorrow....

Racingswh

Nice result in both races by the looks of it! Congratulations!!

​​​​​Good to see Joe A is still very quick his T1car. Whoever David Tuaty is he flies too!

Captain Buddha

Thank you! Another podium/P3 today! Joe is fast! As is Tuaty!!! On to Sebring!!

STANG KILLA SS

damn son! a killer car AND you can drive!
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!
is your helmet wrapped too?
somehow, someway, someday i gotta get in the seat of that beast for a couple laps.

dclafleur

Congrats on the podium! Car looks great.

Captain Buddha

Thanks y'all!!

Yes, 360 Wraps did my helmet, very pleased! I've got some great on track pix where you can see the helmet in the car at speed, I dig shots like that.

Captain Buddha

Well, just got back from two weeks in Florida for racing...WOW!! What a blast!! First time to drive the new car - what an amazing ride!! Having full crew, race engineer, coach, etc. really helps!!

-Homestead-Miami SCCA Majors:
2 Podiums / P3 for Saturday and Sunday races!! (as posted above)

-Sebring SCCA Super Tour:
P7 in class (21 cars), P16 overall (49 cars) for Saturday - crazy race - got 5 positions on the start, then on the 2nd lap there was a waving yellow, Corvette on fire in T7....led to a double yellow then a red flag then a black flag all...48 cars lined up on pit lane while the carnage was cleaned up....it was HOT...fortunately I have a hydration system, cool shirt, helmet blower, etc....so....they RE-GRIDDED us and restarted the race....still, there was another double yellow for a few laps, there were only 8 race laps.

Got bit by Sebring for the Sunday race, shock issue, did not take the checker but still managed to outlast a number of fellow competitors and ended up P13 in class (21 cars), P38 overall (49 cars).

Sitting in 2nd place in GT2 in the 2019 SCCA Majors Championship Point Standings, Southeast Conference. Maybe I need to go back to the Southeast and race Road Atlanta, VIR, Charlotte, Roebling, etc.... LOL!!

fatbillybob

You should! I got slaughtered at Sebring. Got punted from behind. I'm in Cali car is in atlanta. I'm now trying to get fixed for Road Atlanta in March. You should do VIR because the runoffs will be there in October.