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 23rd

Leading Up to The Event

This 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 day. That may not seem terribly exciting, but I also didn't receive the transmission and differential to even put the car back together again until 16 hours before this event.

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 a perfect 65 degrees with a light breeze. The event also barely had any attendees, which is rare for a Track Night in America.

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 than normal season posts.

First race is in the books! With a lot of work and effort we pulled off a pretty amazing rookie debut with no penalties / black flags, no off track mishaps or spins, and we managed to finish 4th in B class (out of 14 cars) and 12th overall (out of 41).

Leading up to the Race and Practice day:

As my C5 Corvette project ownership carries on longer, the Corvette is quickly becoming less and less of a street car and more and more of an outright track sled. At first for safety I simply trusted just them OEM roll protection. That of course wasn't significant enough, and I wanted harnessess, so I moved onwards to a rollbar... and while that works, it's a half measure. Now with the tracks I frequent I am regularly pushing speeds well into the 130's.

The final event of 2024 (barring any unforseen last minute days at the Ridge) was an AX event at PIR with Bridge City Autosports. They do a bunch of Autocross, and for whatever reason we haven't run with them prior to this event, but now that we have, we'll surely be back for more! Myself, Dave and Karla drove the car at the event in the actual timed events, with Janik hopping in during the fun laps.

After a succesfull first season with the Accord and getting our team on track the focus has now shifted to getting the car the rest of the way race worthy! There were definitely some improvements made during the first season of getting our team familiar with the car, most notably being transmission cooling and power steering problems.

Coming into this track day I had a bit of a gap driving, and had actually been driving our Lemons Accord more. Fortunately, I was able to wrap up a few last minute modifications to get the car ready to go for the event.