Tulsa Shootout - A Week Away

We're down to crunch time - working fast and furious to get our car done for the race.  We leave next Tuesday evening, but the car has to go in the trailer Sunday.  I special thanks to the Stewarts for trailering our car out to the event.  I'll be sharing pit space with Beau and his family and T.J. Heil and his family.  All great people that we really enjoy being around.

Crunch time - trying to pull together all the loose ends on our car so we can get it loaded up on Sunday for the trip.

The game plan for this portion of the http://www.minisprintracer.com/ website is to bring you as much in the way of blog entries, video and photos as possible leading up to and during our trip to the Tulsa Shootout.  How regularly we update will depend on the quality of Internet access inside the Expo Center.  We are bringing along all of the digital and video cameras in our house in hopes of capturing all the points of interest.  A special thanks goes out to GoPro for providing one of their new HD cameras for the trip.  I am hopeful that this will allow us to get some in car footage.  We've also seen several of the GoPro cameras purchased at Speed Partz.  I will try to track down the guys running those cameras to see if we can post some of their in-car also.

It appears our trip should be an action packed few days of racing.  The Tulsa Shootout website says that they are currently expecting in excess of 700 cars.  This is a lot of mini sprints and modified midgets considering they have pulled the go-karts from the show this year.  In the upright mini sprint category there are at 31 cars from 8 different states and 2 different countries signed in.  We know of at least a few additional cars that are not currently signed up that are making the trip.  It sounds as if it will be tough to just make the show.  If you would like to know more about the Tulsa Shootout, be sure to check out last month's story in http://www.minisprintracer.com/ magazine by clicking here.

You probably have noticed the ffjtv.com logo in our banner above.  We are pretty excited about the partnership we have formed with this group.  FFJournal is a magazine devoted to the metal forming and fabricating industry.  They have created a online channel that features videos on fabricators.  It is some really interesting viewing, especially during these winter months.  We are planning on working with the group in the early months of 2011 to produce a few episodes that show what goes into building a mini sprint.  Be sure to check out their video channel at http://www.ffjtv.com/.  Some of our postings during the Tulsa Shootout will be designed to help ffjtv.com viewers understand what a mini sprint is.

We'll be starting with regular posts to this site in the next day or so...stay tuned.