Time to Race...!

I get invited to race the NASA 25 hrs at Thunderhill December 3-6 2009 !!!

It's a perfect way to finish the race season and the year with some really cool endurance racing. The team I'll race for is Works Motorsports who are a professional rally and drifting team with factory help from Mitsubishi. All the guys are super cool and they have top class equipment and I really looking forward to the race !

The car we will race is a 2010 Mitsubishi Evo X, all wheel drive, produce 350 hp and with paddle shifting ! We are four drivers splitting on 25 hrs so it will be a lot of driving and Thunderhill Raceway is a really fun race track with a lot of altitude changes !!














Here is a video about Works Motorsports !

I'll update Live here at my blog with some pictures and text how it goes from the first practice day Dec 3th through the whole 25 hrs race Dec 5-6th !

Stay tuned,
Marten

My first....

Thanksgiving ! Now I've had my first American Thanksgiving !!

It was great; so much good food, surrounded by great people and when you think about it you has a lot of to be thankful for!

The day started with some phone calls about a cool event I'll do this weekend then we saw the thanksgiving parade from New York City. Then it was time to burn some engergy before the dinner with some walking in a nice nature park where the Indians lived before.

I also read some books about the history of Thanksgiving which was very interesting ! After that the turkey was done and a big table was served with so much good food !




























The day after Thanksgiving was the Black Friday, all the shooping stores have huge sales and a lot of people do all their Christmas shopping. Some poeple even camped outside the stores and you have to be their before 5 am to be able to get all the great sales ! So I decided to run and work out for three hours instead !














Best,
Marten

Good or Bad...?!

This week was Friaday 13th and both in America and in Sweden it's reconized to be bad luck ?! I've never been awared and been thinking if my day will be good or not but this year I waked up and realized its Friday 13th. Even when I was well known about it my day turned out to be a really good one!

I had some really good phone calls and meetings that will play a big roll 2010 then I get a free lunch and then I met up with a friend to go to a car show ! It was great fun and we're able to test drive a lot of cars. I get really suprised how good the new Ford's sedan cars have been ! But the best from the day was to drive the new Corvette and the new Camaro SS around the track ! The tires was smoking, the enigen was screaming and I was smilling :)

Secound saturday of every month all the art galleries in downtown are open and a friend of mine did a such a great job and where able to show her's arts. All the artist had to do 20 paintings in one special theme and her's theme was Sweden, she is really good and it was very great to see !

Best,
Marten

Lunch for 1 dollar !

The leaves have starts to fall now in Northern California and the stores are filled with Christmas stuff, even before Thanksgiving ! I went to IKEA with some great friends for lunch and when I come in to the restaurant I saw that Today's Lunch was for 1 dollar ! Only one dollar, that's pretty amazing, plus it taste good !

It's startes to get cooler here but our outside pool is still warm and it's kind of weird for me to be able to swim in middle of November ! I like it, plus it's great work out !

This week I've been at Infineon Raceway for meetings and planning for 2010 racing season ! Like always at Infineon you get connected with some cool cars and people who like to share their knowledge and experience !

I also visit a cool airplane museum, when I was a little kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot ! But instead I started with racing !

For more pictures of my week, take a look Here !

Best,
Marten