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Hey, welcome to my official blog!
This is the place where you will find pics and updates directly from my race weekends, plus a lot of other fun stuff such as stunt driving or things not always about racing.
Cheers! /Carl |
| Pic of the week |
Grid before the race, Nordschleife 2008. |
| Songs to check out |
1. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
2. Span - Baby's Come Back
3. Adam Tensta - My Cool
4. Outkast - Take Off Your Cool
5. Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat
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| Food and Drinks |
1. Redondo Beach Brewing Co, CA
3. The Standard, Hollywood, CA
3. Nic's, Bevery Hills, CA
4. Vino Pasta, Gothenburg, SWE
5. Paradise Cove, Malibu, CA
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| Best shape ever (read why!) |
| Monday, May 28, 2007 |
I´ve never been in better shape regarding my speed than I am today. I believe experience, life-style and the correct mindset are three great enablers for performing at your best and being honest; the winter of 2005/2006 I totally sucked looking at my own usual standards, due to very busy times on a personal level. I could still hold up and perform ok due to experience and the fact that I´m fortunate enough to have a high lowest level, but I wasn´t at all the usual me.
I obviously recovered and learned a lot, so only getting much stronger after that winter improved my racing capabilities and I´m easily topping where I was before - I have never been faster. One little example was jumping right into a few races at the Open Winter Series at the Majorna Gokart indoor circuit and claiming the win at my second appearance and posting laptimes easily beating all competitors from real life racing who I used to be very evenly matched with before. I think this is when people say you´ve reached a whole new level!
Here´s the complete laptime list of the fastest guys at the track.
http://www.gokarting.nu/Laptimes.aspx
Added to this, an extreme amount of in-car time these last 6 months at my everyday job, at Volvos chassis testing department, stunt driving and precision driving obviously has paid off really well - especially when it comes to driving in slippery/wet conditions which I really like. How? Oh, you´ll see in due time... ;)
/Carl
 On top among a bunch of regulars at Go Karting Majorna, most of them true gocart aces. Don´t even ask why I look so happy (NOT!!) in the pic - maybe still focused after the race..!!Labels: Racing |
posted by Carl Rydquist @ 2:25 AM   |
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Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 34
Home: Redondo Beach
Web: CarlRydquist.com
Reel: Click to watch
Highlights: Winner of Zandvoort 500 (2005), Winner of Swedish Endurance 3h GT Racing Championship (2004), Winner of Swedish Endurance 8/12h GT Racing Championship (2001), Winner of Eurosport Super Racing Weekend Challenge (2001), Winner of Redline Time Attack Mod RWD (2010). 24 Hours of Nurburgring (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011). 24 Hours of Barcelona (2011). 25 Hours of Thunderhill (2010).
Memberships: FIA (intl racing license), DRAW Portfolio, Formula D, Performance Two Stunt & Precision Driving Team (Hollywood, CA), SAG Stunt Driver (Screen Actors Guild).
Teams: City Tire (Drift), AE Performance, STORM GT Racing.
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