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Hey, welcome to my official blog!
This is the place where you will find quick reports directly from my race weekends, plus a lot of other fun stuff going on, not always about racing.
Cheers! /Carl |
| Pic of the week |
Me in the Karousel, Nordschleife 2007. |
| Songs to check out |
1. Foo Fighters - Let it die
2. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
3. Adam Tensta - My Cool
4. Outkast - Take Off Your Cool
5. Sia - Breathe Me
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| Food and Drinks |
1. Vino Pasta, Gothenburg, SWE
2. The Standard, Hollywood, CA
3. Barney's Beanery, Santa Monica, CA
4. Le Clafoutis, Sunset Strip, CA
5. Heaven 23, Gothenburg, SWE
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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 |
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| Racing school |
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
Last week my good friend Danny McSmarte from California visited Gothenburg so of course I had to take him to the racetrack. I´ve been an instructor for 6 years for among others the Sports Car Club of Gothenburg racing school, so that´s where I took him. Enjoying the unfamiliar rainy weather he got really good at racing around the wet track, so now I think he´s ready for the next level, which would be a little faster car. I hope he will go autocrossing this summer back in San Diego - it´s great training in car control.
 I did not have to give any excuses for bringing Danny - he was fast and in charge of the car!
About the other folks in the class I have to say they did really well in those tough conditions. Not easy when you´ve never been at a track to go flat out when it´s wet wet wet, but almost everyone managed without skidding of the track and as always - it´s a lot more to learn from starting out in a slow, reliable car than a car that is too fast and gets the student "scared" all the time.
 Big D to the right with me in my new white/black Stand21 racing suit next to him.Labels: Instructing |
| posted by Carl Rydquist @ 8:12 PM |
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| Fast Facts |
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Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 31
Home: Redondo Beach
Web: CarlRydquist.com
Reel: Click to watch
Highlights: Winner of Swedish Endurance GT Racing Championship (2001 & 2004). Winner of Zandvoort 500 (2005). Winner of Eurosport Super Racing Weekend Challenge (2001). 24 Hours of Nurburgring (2006, 2007, 2008).
Memberships: FIA (international racing license), Performance Two Stunt & Precision Driving Team, Hollywood, CA (professional driver).
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