2011 World Challenge Summer Break
Summer is here and that means afternoons by the pool, hamburgers, watermelon, fireworks and racing. However, those of us who run in the Pirelli World Challenge series aren’t racing at the moment. For the first time in forever we have a big summer break in our season which means we get to be lazy and [...]
Highlights From Toronto–4th Place Finish
Toronto was an exciting race. Check out the highlights of the race from the world-challenge.com
M-I-C-K-E-Y
Horton Autosport takes a break to celebrate team principal, John Horton’s birthday. After a very tough race weekend in Toronto where team Horton Autosport managed another top five finish despite difficult circumstances, it was time for a much-deserved break. Since we didn’t have an opportunity in Toronto to celebrate John’s birthday the way we wanted, we [...]
Blowing off some steam in Catalina
We’re in the middle of our “spring break” in the World Challenge series. Four weeks off seems like a long time, but the Horton Autosport/Truspeed team has been busy planning and preparing for Watkins Glen July 3rd. Although there’s much to do, that doesn’t mean we don’t have a little fun from time to time. Last [...]
Recap–Thursday, May 5th Market Crash
What a crazy day!! In 8 years of trading I have never seen the DOW take a trip down like it did this afternoon. We were working several buy orders at the time and due to the breakdown in market order, we were unable to buy at the bottom. With the specialist system pushed to [...]
History of Porsche Documentary, by Jeff Zwart
Incredible driving and great 7 minute documentary on the history of Porsche and Porsche racing–from the racing coupe to the GT2. The Pikes Peak footage is unreal! History of Porsche
Inspiration–Steve McQueen
The roots of my admiration of Steve McQueen come from what I’ve seen on the movie screen – the quintessential American badass who is quiet, confident and a true competitor. In my favorite movie, Le Mans, you can see McQueen’s passion for racing pour out into his acting. While the movie has very few spoken lines, the [...]
Surfing in Santa Barbara
I was up and braving the cold Santa Barbara weather last Saturday to film some surf scenes for the new promo video our team is putting together.
