Words just get in the way.
Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Have you ever felt taunted by your airline hostess? Demeaned? Patronized? Treated like cattle? I’m sure you’ve NEVER felt that your needs were trivial when compared to either the service personnel’s or the greater group. Well if you are the RARE jet traveller that has felt that way, I’m going to let you in on a little secret I learned from a Mason client on his death bed. Continue reading ‘Blue by You’
A juggernaut (
American pronunciation (help·info)) is a term used to describe a force regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
Kurt
Today Guardian Angel Motorsports felt like it became a juggernaut entry in the Grand Am Rolex24hr at Daytona.
Pictured here is Kurt’s interview with New England Cable News which was orchestrated by his POWER CHICK media agent - Sarah Cote.
RJ Valentine graciously lent his facility to us for the taping of the interviews and we even got to sit in his Riley & Scott Pontiac GTO which won the 2006 Rolex GT Driver’s championship. It was great.
So why the ‘juggernaut’ status? Continue reading ‘Juggernaut!’
A quick update.
Our race contract draft reflected our negotiation of 10 guest passes and was written in as 10 per driver. With 4 drivers, that gave us 40 passes. Along we marched.
In reviewing our final draft this week, we saw that diction now read 10 guest passes per car. That gave us 10 passes, less 30. Each pass costs $185.00.
Thursday night, Linda was reviewing the food for Colin & Emily’s allergies. Lori Beddell, hospitality queen, has been EXTREMELY accommodating, however, we learned that just to make things easy, there are THREE food levels to discern.
1. TRG Buffet table at hospitality. This is a ‘grazing’ station and has a dearth of meat & potatoes ‘fuel’.
2. The Sahlen participant tent - all drivers, crew, team owners eat here, it’s the inside track and, of course, Danica’s hang out. $95/pp for the weekend. Continue reading ‘Learning the Ropes - Why they have 16 private jets in the NASCAR family’
BOSTON, Mass. (Jan. 13, 2009) — Like many elite drivers, Kurt Kossman, will be racing the famous Rolex 24 Hour race in Daytona, Florida next week Jan. 24-25th. Unlike any other driver, he’ll be doing it with one leg. The other leg is removable. “That’d be the clutch leg,” Kossmann says.
Kossmann lost his leg to cancer of the bone at 17 years old. Now he’s racing for Guardian Angel Motorsports, a charity that raises money for Children’s Hospital Boston. “I want kids to get the chance they deserve in life. Like I did,” Kossmann adds.
Kurt
The inspiration for Guardian Angel Motorsports came from founder and co-driver, Bruce Ledoux. Ledoux’s son was born with a chromosomal disorder that leaves him with severe cognitive delays. “Children’s Hospital Boston has become my son’s pit crew, and we want other kids to get the same care we’ve gotten,” Ledoux says.
The team will be driving the #63 car, a Porsche 997 Grand-Am Spec GT3 Cup car. The Rolex 24 will be televised on FOX and SPEED.
Donations can be made at www.guardianangelmotorsports.com.
Randy Pobst Autograph
We need the help of all our friends, family, supporters and partners. The only way for this project to truly gain a life of it’s own is for it to get large scale media attention. Helping children to have a shot of winning at the very basic game of life is worth that an then some.
We’ve struggled to get media exposure in addition to all of the other details required in executing an undertaking like this.
Here is a list of local media outlets that Continue reading ‘Who do you know?’
Uggh.
Tough, tough experience on Monday. We finally got the car ironed out with the help of Spencer Pumpelly. Spencer did a few laps and while fast….understood our discomfort with the car. A few degrees of wing and a few forward clicks on the brake bias and Voila, we have a stable platform to drive.
This left us with 60 minutes left in practice and FIVE drivers that were anxious to get a turn at the wheel. To make matters worse, as freshman to the Daytona thing, we were caught off guard that the last session would run essentially as an unofficial qualifying session. The big boys ’stickered up’, flipped the ECU Continue reading ‘D.F.L. = Dead Freakin’ Last’
Eric Wildt, Jason Myers from The Racers Group & Sean Heckman of The Media Barons did a FANTASTIC job summarizing each of the 3 days of testing for the TRG supported cars. Enjoy.
Day One - All in one piece
Day Two - Setting the Pace
Day 3 - Front and Center!
We can’t go fast.
This is a really big downer. To make it worse, we’re ****RIPPING**** thru tires. The tires should be doing 45-55 laps a set before the adhesion drops to the point where driving the pace becomes a very startling affair. We’ve burned TWICE the tires budgeted for this practice…at $2200 a set, that’s not cool. We need to have a car Continue reading ‘How fast does your Guardian Angel fly?’
Day 1 of January 2009 Rolex 24hr Practice - was a tough one.
The car looked great. All hands were on deck and we were ready to RUMBLE.
That’s when the snafu’s started. We were late to the grid and lost 15 minutes of our 105 minute track time. With 5 souls looking for some laps….that in and of itself hurts.
Dan Watkins led the charge and rolled out the team for the first few, uneventful laps. Unfortunately for Dan he quickly found that we were running out of revvs with about 1250 feet of straightaway left…AGAIN. This means the tranny is coming out.. Continue reading ‘A Day as “The Bug”’
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