I just turned in my final installment of "From the sidelines to the starting line" for Mustang Enthusiast.  With that our ME work with the famous #05 Steeda Cobra R race car has been concluded.  I am grateful to Editor Larry Jewett for giving me that project and all the pages we filled in 12 issues.

I learned to race.  Earned a license in both SCCA and NASA.  We won an enduro at the SCCA's prestigious ARRC race at Road Atlanta with co driver Dwight Kelly and then won a sprint race in NASA American Iron Extreme this summer also at Road Atlanta.

This past weekend was my second time at Road Atlanta.  Back in March when I was at Road Atlanta for the first time, I was quite nervous about all the elevation changes and blind curves.  I was able to go into this weekend much calmer than before and hoping to improve on what I had learned before. 

In the few weeks since last month’s event at CMP, the cobra received many new gifts, including a new set of track tires (still the Nitto Extreme R Autocross tires), an AutoPower roll bar, a larger radiator from Fluidyne (hoping to alleviate those heating issues where the supercharger cuts out), a Steeda rear suspension subframe bracket kit, and an oil separator kit.  For fear of being miserable during the weekend (I had heard that last year’s NASA event at Road Atlanta in August was brutally hot), we decided to rent an RV for the weekend.  This way we could stay on track in air conditioning the entire weekend rather than being exposed to all the elements during the day and only having access to air conditioning at night back at the hotel room.  As it turned out, the weather this past weekend turned out to be beautiful (a bit warm, but not overly hot).  And unfortunately the RV could not tow the weight of the cobra, so we still had to drive two separate vehicles up and back.  Regardless, the RV still made the trip a lot of fun and was a great decision.

The July NASA event was back at CMP, which made this my third time out on this particular track.  In preparation for the event, my father put a larger heat exchanger from Steeda on the cobra to help alleviate the issue from Barber where the supercharger cut out the last session of each day. 

He also put a different computer program in from Steeda that boosted the engine approximately 30hp.

When the weekend schedule was posted online, I tried to see if I could be switched to the run group that leaves earliest on Sunday in order to help out with my long drive home. 

 A small mix-up occurred, so I ended up missing my first session of the weekend.  Everything got straightened out with plenty of time for me to run in the 2^nd session.

Welcome to Mustang On Track. I enjoy taking my ’95 Cobra R to the race track with both SCCA and NASA. It became more and more apparent that there was just not a source for consistant information for those of us that take our Mustangs to the race track.

Since I could not find a quality steady source of information to help me at the road course, I decided I could create it myself.

With the help of BROOKS Performance we have re-launched Mustang On Track. If you race American Iron or American Sedan or just like to take your Shelby GT500 to Watkins Glen for a club open track day, Mustang On Track is for you.