Carl Rydquist: September 2010

Welcome

Welcome to my official blog!

Here's where you will find pics and updates directly from my race weekends, plus other things such as stunt driving and sometimes posts not always about racing.

Cheers! /Carl

Pic of the week

Grid before the race, Nordschleife 2008.

Songs to check out

1. Little Black Submarines
2. The Pretender
3. Outkast - Take Off Your Cool

Food and Drinks

1. Redondo Beach Brew. Co, CA
2. Huntley, Santa Monica, CA
3. Pistenklause, Nuerburg

For Sale

Pair of STATUS Ring Kevlar Racing seats, lightly used, very good condition.

2:32,08 in Super Session

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The afternoon gave a good track for Super Session, so I put a couple of good laps in hitting 2:32 on my used Hankook RS3 street tires! Awesome performance. By then I had a safe 3rd place with a big gap to the guy behind and could no longer resist drifting the long sweeping turns 1 and 2... Awesome fun.

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Podium overall in Super Session too, best RWD car!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

This was another great weekend with the AE Performance/Hankook/City Tire 350Z. Pole position, winner in Time Attack RWD and then this overall wheel2wheel Super Session podium. Car and tires held up great in these tough conditions. Thx all contributing! Pics and writeup to come.

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Cooling the engine in an AC cooled garage is nice

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Provisional result: We have just won our 4th in a row!

And Dustin celebrates with a hot dog.

Now we're all in the pits to support Paul in street class.

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Pole position again, Modified RWD class!

Another pole position in the bag for AE Performance/Hankook/City Tire. Keep fingers crossed for the time attack sessions!

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2.33 on warmup

The tires get hot, the coolant gets hot, gearbox is due for a change so racing on 3rd and 4th gears only... Car also has mad oversteer on trailbraking which mainly is a handicap for passing in a wheel2wheel race, but still it's fun to drive here. :)

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Good Vegas morning

Up bright and early, about to hit the track. AE performance helped bleed brakes as they felt a little soft. Let's see how the chassis balance turns out here!

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In place at Spring Mountain

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Car through tech and parked up for the night with AE Performance. More cars here than expected, cool. Tmrw morning starts w driver's meeting then warmup. We are racing the 3.1-mile config, huge mix of turns, mostly tight and low speed, should suit our wide stance and short wheelbase. We're running on used tires this time, it will take some grip away but it's a very technical track so I hope to make up for it as long as I have traction. The Carbonetic diff and our AIT Racing lightweight panels are very important mods for tomorrow's race, same goes for the ARC radiator, I'm glad we have it as it is very hot out here. Alright that's it til tmrw! /Carl

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Fast Facts

Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 35
Home: Redondo Beach, CA
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 Super Lap Battle Lim RWD (2011), Winner 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), SAG Stunt Driver (Screen Actors Guild), Formula D, Performance Two Stunt & Precision Driving Team (Hollywood, CA).
Teams: Berk Technology, City Tire, AE Performance, Steam Racing, STORM GT Racing.