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Welcome to the home of BlurredVisionRacing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That brings us to the end of the 2009 racing season. Early in 2010, Team SaskRacing will get together for a year end
soiree and crown it's 2009 Champ. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After yet ANOTHER engine swap, Gary's Reynard was ready to go for the National Autoslalom event at Super Slalom in Saskatoon. The Saskatoon Sports Car Club puts on a premiere event every September long weekend. This years was no execption. BlurredVisionRacing finally had a good weekend, with Gary taking home top place in B Modified to become 2009 National Champion! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After our return from Road America, Gary had an engine swap to do. He borrowed a Libre spec 2L from Gord for the August
Gimli Vintage Weekend classic. Unfortunately, the quick engine swap resulted in the oil pump being mounted slightly
mis-aligned, which caused the belt to jump off at high RPM. After a few sessions of this, that engine gained an ominous
knock. This ended up being another rod bearing gone! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry about that, it's been a bit more than a day since our last update! It was a hectic trip to Wisconsin to say the
least. Gary rattled a rod engine bearing in practice after only 6 laps. He tried one more in qualifying, but it hadn't
fixed itself, so that was his weekend done. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, after getting half way through the 'micro-brew' list at Siebkins, we decided it was time for a walk through historic Elkhart Lake. We found that the first race was held in 1950 through the town itself. This led us to the 'Lake Street Cafe', which housed a plethora of formula car folks. These new friends offered to help us with our trek to Pegusus for parts, even though they just met us. Great people! On the way back to the hotel, we decided to stop at Siebkins, again. This time, we found yet more formula car folks. We ended up chatting with the 2008 SCCA Runoffs winner, Chris Keller, and his father, Kevin. They were great to chat with, and we wish Chris all the best in his future racing endevours. More updates tomorrow, once we get settled into the paddock. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to Siebkins! A uneventful tour from Gimli to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin has brought us to the 'Last Open Bar'.
We've already dropped the trailer at Road America, which is HUGE - 4.2 miles long, with 14 corners. The event starts
on Thursday, but we should be able to get into paddock on Wednesday. Wednesday morning will see us travelling to
Pegasus Auto Racing to pick up parts to fix Gord's oil leak, and Noel's clutch issues. Gord and Gary will get the
cars prepared on Thursday for racing on Friday. The Reunion is going to be, by far, the biggest event BlurredVisionRacing has ever been a part of. With 5 seperate grids FF's, there will be over 240 individual cars running. Gord's vintage grid will consist of ~50 cars, while Gary and Noel will be running in the Regional FF grid of over 100 cars! We'll update again tomorrow from the track. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our first race was July 18/19 in Gimli. What a relief to get back on the road and out of Gord's garage! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry for the lull on updating the page. The past winter was busy. VERY busy. Gord has completed the restoration
of the Hawke DL-11 he aquired two years ago. It last raced in 1982, and it looks like it!! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Click to see the news page from the 2008 BlurredVisionRacing season. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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