My New Ride!

Yes, the rumors are true, I will be driving a Nitro Funny Car next season!

Not just any old nitro car though, but the best known and currently one of the world’s quickest Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars!

I am very proud to say that Twig Zeigler has chosen me to wheel his Funny Car for the 2012 season.

This is a wonderful opportunity for me as a driver, everything is right about this program; the car is beautiful and very high profile, it has only the best parts, with plenty of spares, the car performs at the top of it’s class, and Twig is a true gentleman with 42 years of nitro racing experience to draw upon. It doesn’t get any better.

I encourage you to venture over to the Twig Zeigler Website and have a look around to learn more about the history of this fabulous car and team owner.

Our 2012 schedule is still being finalized, but the plan is to start our Northwest tour with the NAPA Auto Parts Ignitor in Boise Idaho at the end of April. From there we intend to visit Mission BC, Edmonton Alberta, Spokane, and Yakima Washington, Woodburn Oregon, and closing the season in Bakersfield for the California Hot Rod Reunion in October.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tom and Debby Cook, of CV Transport. Their support over the years has made it possible for me to be in this position to drive such a high quality race car, at such a high level of competition. As I have always said about my sponsors, it is about building the relationship for the long term, and my relationship with Tom and Debby of CV Transport is a perfect example of this. This past season has seen Tom evolve into a racer in his own right, and Debby has also won some rounds, I am proud to have been a part of their successes, and we’ve had some great times at the track this year. I look forward to continuing our relationship, and having many more great times with them for many years to come.

Check back here often over the winter while I keep everyone updated on the preparations for the coming season of excitement!

Blogging

The articles I’ve been writing on sponsorship have been very popular, so much so that I have been asked to write on Sponsorship and marketing for Rapid Time News, a web based business newspaper.

I am honoured and excited to be a member of the Rapid Time News team. The quality of the writers is very high, and I encourage you to have a look at the site to read not only my articles but if you are in business, or even interested in business there will be plenty to interest you there.

As well as great articles, Rapid Time News has the most comprehensive calendar of events in Vancouver, if you are looking for something to do check out the calendar here. If you have an event coming up you would like to promote, it is free to post your event on their calendar.

So to those of you who have been following my articles on sponsorship, you can continue reading them on Rapid Time News. This blog will continue with my usual random and sometimes inconsistent, (sorry about that things get busy at times) postings on drag racing and whatever else pops into my head.

One of the reasons I have not updated my blog recently has been the latest project I have been working on in the shop. Not the usual highly specialized race car development I usually do around here, but an equally exciting racing machine all the same.

Snow Skis, well, not exactly, Sit-skis is more accurate, for a couple Paraplegic Olympic skiers. They brought me their medal winning sit-skis and asked me if I could improve on the design. I reverse engineered the sample skis they provided me, then re-engineered them into a prototype. They are are very exciting piece of engineering, with complex geometry in their suspension to allow for not only control of the ski, but the rider also has to get on a chair lift. This has been an incredibly fun project, I can’t wait for some snow now so we can test the prototype! (that’s the only reason I am impatient for the snow)

Would you ride this?