With the car tracked and tested all summer long we felt we were ready for the race weekend. We tackled some general maintenance and a full review of the car, packed up enough spare parts to largely reassemble almost anything on the car if need be,...
Latest From Shred Jesse
Updated 8 months 3 weeks ago
Updated 8 months 2 weeks ago
This event was just a fun little afternoon event with Track Night in America. I made a few modifications to the Corvette and decided I'd test them out at the track, see how everything is working together and have some fun times driving around the...
Updated 9 months 4 weeks ago
Race cars run hot. Combine that with most events happen in the warmer months of the year if you live in a more Northernly state, and you've got a recipe for overheating in the car. Air conditioning isn't really a great option, and that goes out the...
Updated 8 months 2 weeks ago
Coming hot off the heels of a succesfull weekend at ORP with a new PB I was pretty excited for the upcomming time attack event with OnGrid at the Ridge Motorsports Park. I knew I had a few things to sort out, but for the most part the car was...
Updated 10 months 6 days ago
Finally, back to ORP! This is in my opinion the most fun and simultaneously challenging track on the west coast. Blind corners and crests are everywhere. Off camber? It has it! Camber cut all the way into a hillside? It has three of them back to...
Updated 10 months 1 week ago
So after my last event at PIR, I was happy the car was better but concerned I'd created new problems to go with the ones I'd solved. While the transmission was together and everything seemed happy... I now had ABS issues and power issues. The power...
Updated 11 months 3 days ago
So documenting each and every single track day, while writing about my Corvette is going to become a bit too much for me... so I'm just going to document the chunks of time inbetween major lemons races!TNIA - May 23rdEarly in the summer (or late in...
Updated 10 months 4 weeks ago
Leading Up to The EventThis track day was an exciting one! Not in the sense anything at the event regarding the Corvette itself was exciting... but in the sense that just 24 days prior I had blown up the torque tube on the Corvette at my 43rd track...
Updated 12 months 7 hours ago
Welp, track day 43 did not go as planned. Coming into the event, I was thinking I'd be getting some data on the new to me Vitour P1 tires along with in general getting used to driving them on the track. Maybe even set a nice PB since the weather was...
Updated 1 year 1 week ago
The first track day of the year for PNW'ers tends to be a big deal, as folks have had all winter to wrench on their car. That's also a long time to build up some rust with. I was no exception to all of this, and so this post will be a bit longer...