This is the whole race of the final round of USTCC from the #44 GOTO:Racing WRX. Great action with lots of traffic to move through while trying to keep lepper behind me. And I thought I had done it until the last turn of the last lap.

http://www.gotoracing.com/videos/ust...inal_round.wmv

 

WOOH, crazy video..............lol, thanks for sharing, Christmas is coming, can you suggest any book or anything that has helped you along the way in your professional driving career?

Thanks,

C

 

Book?...Not really. As far as the driving part goes I have had a lot of mentors within NASA that have helped me. As far as the sponsorship part goes, I really just winged it and learned as I went. But I will tell you one thing, driving is the easy part for sure!!! Getting a company, especially with the economy where it is at, to give you product, or better yet money, is not as easy as "I will put your sticker on my car!"

 

How hard has it been to get sponsership and what have you had to do in return to recieve the sponsership?

 

Well it has been easy for some things and hard for others. It all depends on the level of interest the company has in you and your team. If they already know you and like your team then it is easy. But is you have to sell your self as a driver, and more importantly a PR guy that is going to pump there product, it gets very time consuming. I have been pretty lucky so far finding interested parties, however, my goal for next season is World Challenge and the budget is in a whole nother league. I am now trying to get sponsors to fork over cash instead of just product, which is not easy.

The biggest problem I have found in finding sponsorship is just the time to do it. It takes hours and hours to prepare a good proposal, then you have to make contact and find the right person to send it to, then you have wait for them to review it, then you negotiate, etc. etc. All this after working 40 hours a weeks at my regular job, and putting in the wrench time on the WRX with my Dad, it is just to much sometimes and what gets left out in the day is calling sponsors. But, I am trying to make this my job, and it is just that, a time consuming job. And what you do off the track is just as important as what you do on the track.