SPEED WORLD CHALLENGE

Here's the team...Notice that I have my eyes closed.     I blinked.   That's also how long my first race lasted at Sebring...the engine let loose with a whimper. It didn't even have the decency to explode into a million Japanese bits, it simply died quietly with oil pressure failure. 

I qualified fourth in the rain at Mosport. See us on the SPEED Channel,  Saturday afternoons!

The Speed World Challenge - as seen on the SPEED Channel. Our first race was at Sebring, on the days before the 12 Hour race. All races will be televised - live and re-broadcasted.  I drove the #95 (the same number as all my Alfa race cars), a white Subaru with 290 hp. We had the only all-wheel-drive cars in the race, a huge advantage if it rains and a small disadvantage (the added weight) offset by better traction if it doesn't rain. 

Here's the link to our interview at Sebring with Kate of RaceFamily Motorsports: http://www.rfmsports.com/Sebring/Interviews/IrishMikes.swc.html 

My new sponsors are The Jeet Kune Do Institute and Mackin Inc. 

Mackin is an Industrial and Residential Real Estate leasing company with offices in Orlando and Apopka, Florida and The Jeet Kune Do Institute, an educational facility which perpetuates Bruce Lee's martial arts style of Jeet Kune Do in Longwood, Fl.. 

Here I am at Sebring. The car looked great. Check out those leather shoes. Who's that NASCAR driver that wears wing-tips? Old school is alive and still well!

The American-Italian flag and Mackin Inc. logos are above.

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It's an all wheel drive 290hp white hot rocket

Yes, that's me in the Subaru during a test day at Sebring.  No Skoal is needed for THIS series...

This is from Mosport, Canada. I finished 34th after the engine lost oil pressure and "ceased to be as one". That's fancy-talk for "it frickin' died" or, 

"It ate a piston", your choice. 

TechWorks Engineering, of Calgary, Canada is building a new engine, one with improved oiling. They are a talented group, capable of constructing one that doesn't destruct and spins to 'eighty-couple-hundred' rpm. Visit their site and learn more about them!