Roebling Road is definitely a different type of track than Road Atlanta, Sebring, or CMP. Rather than multiple straightaways and tight turns, Roebling is a series of rather high speed gradual sweeps and carousel turns with only one significant straight to speak of. I was able to drive up on Thursday night after work, managed to catch a few hours of sleep, and be at the track Friday morning for an event called Seat-Time run by Jon Krolewicz. My instructor at Seat-Time turned out to be the son of the instructor I had at my very first track event down in Sebring two years ago. The Seat-Time event runs approximately the same as the NASA HPDE events, but since there are a total of 4 run groups everyone gets a lot more track time during the day. The run groups are also much smaller which helps reduce traffic jams on the course. And Roebling is a course that is more susceptible to traffic jams since there are very few passing zones.

SVTOA has been going thru some painful changes over the last couple of years, but their reputation for putting on the best club race track days has not changed.

In May SVTOA takes over the Shenandoah Circuit at Summit Point Raceway. Along with theWest Virginia mountain views, so great track fun is found at Summit Point.

Summit Point Raceway is one of the great heritage road courses in the United States. Recently they have added two supplimental tracks to the famous main course at Summit point.

Ford Racing and Miller Motorsports Park's brain child racing series has officially taken the green flag. The FR500S Mustangs opened the Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup with more than 20 cars to begin the new era. 19 year old Andrew Caddell won the pole and the first 45 minute race. Jamie Sloan lead the first lap.

Rob Bodle and I teamed up again for an endurance race in the 05 Steeda
Mustang. The guys at Ponder Racing had completed the repairs after my
big accident at Road Atlanta's Turn 12 during the very wet NASA 3 hour
enduro.

Luckily the impact with the tire wall didn't damage the
suspension and the repairs were limited to some light body and paint
work, replacing the windshield and power steering cooler -- and removing
several pounds of rocks from the gravel trap. The windshield was cracked
from a rock striking it on the inside!