(preceded by the Northwest Mini-Enduro Series 2-hour season finale) For reasons I won’t bother going into (ugh, money, what else?), I’d only planned on doing one race in 2015, so that I could keep my car number and primarily to keep my license current. I had talked to a team about running the fall enduro … Read More “8 Hours of the Cascades” »
Having missed my “usual” team’s run to an overall win at the Portland enduro in 2010, but interested to get back onboard for this year’s return to an 8-hour, I found myself without a ride as they were bringing back the 2010 line-up. I talked to a couple other possible teams, but my heart wasn’t … Read More “36th Annual CSCC “8 Hours of the Cascades”” »
Back in 2009, the 5 or 6 guys in the “Ground Pounder Drivers Association” (they all drive big ol’ tube-framed stock cars) decided to organize a kart enduro that would raise money for the ICSCC race workers’ fund. It was, by all accounts, a big success, with everyone having a great time and a fair … Read More “2nd Annual GPDA “6 Heuers of Kartrrera Panolympia”” »
If you’ve read my report for the previous running of this race, back in the fall of 2007, you’d know that I’d intended to run my car in an enduro for the first time, but the costs associated with giving it full-fledged enduro capability were looking to be a fair bit more than I’d expected. … Read More “Four Hours of Pacific Raceways” »
One of the first things I realized after I bought the M3 in 2005 was that I would soon have a car that could be competitive in one of the enduro classes we have around here. (The Integra, although a fantastic car, would be outmatched in the P2 class.) First things first, though, and that … Read More “Four Hours of Pacific Raceways” »
After my one-year hiatus from the Cascade enduro, 2007 saw the return of the driving lineup for the 2005 race, as well as a crew of endurance race veterans (the sole exception being Stephen Guy, who bravely showed up in his very pretty, street-trim 968), ready to take on the P1 class. The scheduled repaving … Read More “32nd Annual CSCC “8 Hours of the Cascades”” »
The “Four Hours of Pacific Raceways” marked the first event in the new Northwest Enduro Racing Series (NWERS), a series thought of and headed by Hal Hilton, ably assisted by a small but vital group of racers and volunteers. The idea was to create an endurance racing championship, incorporating the 8-hour race in Portland as … Read More “Four Hours of Pacific Raceways” »
After the well-earned but wholly unexpected results in the 2004 running of Cascade‘s enduro, there was never really any doubt that Eric and I would be back for 2005. Hal really had an itch to run his Porsche 944, though, so Bruce Beachman joined the team in his place. Bruce brought his experience in professional-level … Read More “30th Annual CSCC “8 Hours of the Cascades”” »
Most sports car racing follows two formats: 20-30 minute sprints, common to club racing and series like SPEED World Challenge, and endurance racing like what you see at Le Mans (so famous they’ve made more than a few movies about it) and in series such as the ALMS. I’d always liked watching the longer races … Read More “29th Annual CSCC “8 Hours of the Cascades”” »