Last week was Finals Week on Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver. Students from three different colleges we all asking each other the same question: What are your plans for Summer Vacation? Each time I was asked this question, I smiled real big and said, “I’m going racing!”
 
It’s hard to believe that we are just a few weeks away from the first official tire test of the 89th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! The team is busy switching the car into rally mode. These changes include setting the Pikes Peak Special MINI Cooper S with our Group4 Autosport Aerodynamic additions, our TCE Performance Products Brakes, and soon we will be mounting our Federal Tires.
 
The crew aren’t the only ones who have been busy. Rebecca and I are planning on making a few finals trips down to drive the Pikes Peak Highway between now and the test weekend. I have been spending lots of time in the gym training for the physical demands of my race season and the Hill Climb. We have been busy meeting with supporters to get sponsorships for the 2011 season finalized, and we have been spending days at the kart track too! Last Friday Grant and I spent the day at the kart track training in the Rotax Kart. As a reward for reaching the goals we had set, Grant even gave me a few laps in his Stohr Sports Racer. What a blast that car is!