I spent the last couple of days outside of Los Angeles, at Willow Springs International Raceway with an old friend of mine David Zubick. David owns a very cool company called Racing Adventures. I drove a track called horsethief, it has the greatest elevation changes of any track in the world!! COOL
I just talked to Cory who could not do her run outside because it was too cold in Calgary. I however had a sunburn… It does make me wonder why we continue to winter in Canada. About 3 hours on the plan and (by Canadian standards) it is downright tropical. Hmmm, more on this later.
California is a fascinating place, it is the motorsports mecca of the planet, there are more Porsches here than there are in Germany! Traffic is something else, that being said from LAX to WIllow Springs is only 90 minutes.
Willow Springs is one of the oldest and fastest (the speed you can hit on the main track) facilities in North America. There are 7 tracks on a section of land and while I was there 4 of them were busy. The main track had a private track day for regular folks, I could not count the number ot Porsche 911’s, GT3’s, Twin Turbos, then all the BMW’s, my fav was a black and graphite Audi R8 plus a very cool early 70’s Corvette.
I was on a smaller track driving Shelby Cobra replicars with full race setup, and C4 Corvettes. I had driven the Cobras before, they are a hoot, raw, loud, open. Hit the gas and the tail starts to move out and around. It was a tough track I did not do that too much ; )
The other car I had never driven the C4 Vette, wow! Fast, smooth, huge compared to the Cobra but sophisticated in many ways. I found it harder to tell when I was close to the edge in the Vette, all would seem fine and then suddenly I am sliding. The Cobra warns FAR earlier.
Anyway it was a great time, if you are ever interested in getting on a track, visit www.racingadventures.com You will love it!!
I will keep you all posted for my next trip, I plan to do way more track time this year!
