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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
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
Other things
Spot to be filled with useful content.
Redline Time Attack coming up
Friday, November 13, 2009
As a method to keep my Porsche racing skills current (and have fun) I will be competing in a number of Redline Time Attack events next year. To shake-down the car and gather some data I will be participating in RTA out at Auto Club Speedway (ex California Speedway) this weekend already, which is the Redline finals of 2009. The 2010 season start sometime around Feb-March again so the winter break will be short.

Redline is a qualifying competition with essentially three classes: Street, Modified, Unlimited. These in turn have sub-categories for FWD, RWD, AWD. On Sunday I will be in Modified AWD since the car I will be driving is a 911 Turbo with just above 500hp.

The car is only slightly modified with GT2 suspension arms and aerodynamics, Endless brake pads for the Porsche Brembos, a half-cage from GMG and some shock and swaybar upgrades, however it definitely is fast enough to serve its purpose as a practice car.

Usually a lightly modified car like this belongs the in Street class, but by the vehicle classification in the rule book most Porsches automatically transfer to Modified - modified or not.

Tires for the event will be these:
Hankook RS2 and RS3 - thanks to City Tire Online for hooking that up!

Photos of the event to come. See ya at the track!
/Carl

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Fast Facts

Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 34
Home: Redondo Beach
Web: CarlRydquist.com
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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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