Folis Jones Racing

Well, the weekend went pretty well in my opinion.  I came in 3rd from last in the UTCC with a 2:32 laptime which was better than I had hoped for.  My goal for this was to just not come in dead last.  To top the day off, I decided to switch from my driving shoes to my tennis shoes and on the way to the awards presentation I noticed a burning sensation on my right foot.  When I took off my shoe and shook it a wasp came out.  Racin’ Jason Lisner used his quick feet to smote the nasty little thing…  Thanks J….

Thankfully, my sister took all the alergies in the family so I had no reaction to it.

Saturday would prove to be a bigger challenge by far.  I was instructing and competing in the NASA TTE class.  Saturday I managed a 2:29 lap which was good enough for 4th place in class.  The only cars ahead of me were all fully prepped race cars.  My student continued to improve all day and turned out to have met me a few months prior asking me a bunch of questions about NASA.  He really turned out to be a great student with a lot of great potential.  It definately helped that he has 20 years of stock car racing experience.

Sunday would prove to be a great day as well.  I pulled out a 2:28.4 in my second times session which would be good enough for a fourth place finish for the day.

All in all it was a great weekend with a lot of improvements in the car and myself as a driver.  Thanks to NASA Mid-Atlantic, Grassroots Motorsports, Hankook Tires and last but not leat my teamates from Folis Jones Racing.

Now, to bring it all a home a little video from the weekend….

VIR July TTE Run from Douglas Arcidino on Vimeo.