Through some amazing stroke of family pity we are being allowed to venture out for what look to be our last event of the 08 year. What better an event to end the year on than a 2 day mutli-series championship event put of by the great guys over at Formula RallyX.

The car ran awesome at Johnson Valley, and by awesome I mean to say… NO FIRE!!! woohoo. The drivers didn’t run so great, but Jake did manage to give Mike a run for his money.

With points from JV Kevin is back in the running for the FRX championship, but he certainly has his work cut out for him. It looks like a 2 day sweep is the only hope for the top podium spot, but stranger things have happened, so don’t stop cheerin’.

See ya all up @ Ridgecrest
Kevin & Jake

The WayTooFast Racing Team is heading back to Glen Helen this Saturday for another fun-filled, rallyX day. We’ll be breaking in a brand-spanking-new set of Hankook tires for the event so bring on the water truck! It was definitely time for new shoes after Desert Storm.

The tendency of our power steering fluid to boil over and cause little bonfires under our hood has finally driven Kevin to replace the power steering pump on the Neon. We’ll see if the one yanked from the parts-car is up to the task or if it was a rack and pinion issue instead. We’re just trying to survive GH III and the following week’s JV rallyX, and then we’ll have plenty of time for solving the issue once and for all. For now, the “new” pump and a fresh, magic-baby-sock over the reservoir cap will have to suffice.

-Jake
WayTooFast Racing

April 20th, 2008 marked the Glen Helen II rallycross just north of the City of San Bernardino, CA. It was a beautiful day for racing and the turnout of competitors was noticeably higher as a result. Mike Malsed and the FRX group ran a characteristically smooth event with stretches of high speed (We have a third gear?!? Who knew.), a deceptive shamrock and a slip-and-slide element from the frequent water truck runs.

While not the best Team event to date, WayTooFast Racing had tons of fun, met some folks new to rallycross and are looking forward to GH III in a few weeks. Some highlights include Kevin’s 112.96 (4th fastest second lap overall), another close call on an engine fire due to the same ol’ powersteering Glen Helen curse, and spending more time sideways than straight. (LFB FTW!)

Full results can be found here.

-WTF Racing

Team WayTooFast Racing is proud (or maybe just surprised?) to announce our Desert Storm standings:

1st Place in Production and 3rd Place in Performance Stock!

Although only able to attend the first day of racing, the event gave the Team its first high-speed, competitive experience. Kevin got the Neon consistently over 75 mph and topped out at just over 83 mph according to the onboard GPS datalogger. Overall event standings can be found here.

Some of the days highlights include: fishtailing wildly at 80+ on silt, ripping our rear skid plate nearly in two…dragging it for two stages…and finally having sweep hand it to us at lunch, the obligatory beef jerky, and a very shady bar in Blythe that had three customers all night..Kevin, Jake and our single crew member. To this day we believe the place was being robbed, but we walked in during the initial break-in, so they covered up by serving cheap beer at ever-changing prices to us from behind the darkened counter. Odd, but a story to tell the grandchildren nonetheless.

Looking forward to more rally! Pictures and video to follow.

-WTF Racing

Well this year’s first Stage Rally event is upon us and the WTF Racing team is very excited and anxious to get underway. The Desert Storm Rally will mark the team’s second Stage Rally event since their ‘07 debut and the first chance at high-speed runs. Though both Driver and Co-Drive have travelled the long stretch of the I-10 between Arizona and Cali many, many times, this will be their first adventure off-roading near Blythe, CA.

The City of Blythe looks to be nearly as excited to put on the event as the Rally America folks hosting the event. The two day event is set around a fire-department spaghetti cookout to help fundraise for local causes as well as a Parc Ferme stage in the evening. Teams will get a chance to show off their cars to the public up close and personal at the meet-and-greet event.

A group known as RallyTrack will also be appearing at the event and offering the competitors a reduced rate for their SatCom tracking systems. With any luck the team will get to rent one of the setups and give our fans something fun to watch during the event. If all goes well, we hope to be trackable on the web for the Friday portion of the event at RallyTrack’s Website, though at this point in time they don’t appear to have the event posted yet.

Hoping to be back here in a few days to announce our commanding win!