There’s something about pulling into Rockingham Dragway that just hits different. The trees, the energy, the track—it never gets old.
Thursday brought warm blue skies and a couple solid test passes. The car felt decent, we were optimistic, and the team was dialed in. But then... the rain came. Hard. Thursday night turned into a full-on downpour, and by Friday morning the track was dealing with water seeping up through the surface. Just like that, Friday racing was off the table.
That meant we rolled into runs fast on Saturday and a car that suddenly didn’t want to cooperate. The Mustang flat-out refused to make any shifts. We scrambled—changing settings, digging through logs, crawling over every inch of wiring and plumbing. After what felt like a hundred changes, we finally traced the issue to a half-functioning MAC valve. Not dead, just barely hanging on enough to mess with us.
Once we swapped that out, everything started to click. We got in a solid pass with clean data, it felt good after the chaos. That’s the grind—and the reward. Racing rarely goes to plan, but when you can fight through the problems and come out with something valuable, it makes it all worth it. We showed up and showed out for Rockingham, driving all the way down here to do some much needed testing on some different changes, and these changes seem to yield very positive results!
The rest of the weekend? Pure fun. Hanging with our racing family, sharing laughs in the pits, wrenching late, cheering each other on—it’s why we do this. Rockingham gave us the full rollercoaster this time: sunshine, rain, tech gremlins, and all the good vibes we could ask for.
