THE 2007 ADVENTURES BEGIN – SCCA RACING – MARCH 4
Posted by: Nick Fluge on March 7th, 2007
Until now the world has patiently awaited for Fluge Global Adventures to begin it’s journey through 2007. Finally the first adventure – SCCA racing – has begun. Sunday, March 4, marked the first race of the season – fortunately for Fluge it was held under dry skies – there were no contacts with the concrete walls and no black flags! It was pretty successful.
The downside were about 4 Porsches that finished ahead of me. I was 5th! I flew by them on the straights like they were tied to a post – then they outhandled (and outdrove) me through the corners.
As the pics below confirm – I began smiling and ended with headlamps on and a front rotor that was glowing bright red – next time we get that down and we might do even better! Thanks to my team and friends who helped and attended and coached me to the 5th place. And yes, the ‘cam’ work continues on Fluge Adventures for that year end documentary – that I am confident Fox or CNN will pick up!
March 12th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Sounds like you’re having fun Nick. I’m doing some of the same things. In fact there are some remarkable parallels, though I’m not into poker.
I’m a longtime racer–both SCCA (Radical) and vintage racing. I have a blog about my car and the custom Airstream trailer I built to carry it at http://www.AllAluminumTour.com and about all the stuff i do in Hawaii at http://www.ponohouse.com/ponoblog.
Into motorcycles, cars (my daily driver is a Ferrari 360 I bought from Matt back when he was at Tonkins) surfing, windsurfing, scuba, stand up paddle surfing, kayaking, sailing, and anything else that seems like fun.
Good luck on your tour. Here’s a post I wrote that you might find resonates particularly well: http://www.hawaiiv.com/allalum/?page_id=9