*The following is a largely fictional account of Rounds 1 & 2 of the TDI Cup, with only sprinkles of truth. In this fictional world I am significantly more famous and important than in real life.* The first round of the TDI Cup was held this past weekend at beautiful Virginia International Raceway, located just outside ...read more

I am really excited to announce a new partnership with Right To Play for the upcoming season. They are a charitable organization that uses the power of sport to help children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the world. Over the course of the 2010 season individuals and corporations will be able to pledge a donation for every ...read more

This is why I love youtube (and vimeo). In the last couple years it has become a place for top quality content, and big companies are spending legitimate dollars to put cool films on the web. Racing has been no exception. It started with Truth in 24 a couple years ago, which is a film Audi put together ...read more

Thought I would post up a quick little video from TDI Cup driver selection last month. This montage is from the autocross track, where we were each asked to pilot a 2010 Golf TDI, through a tight track made up of cones. The deal with autocross is that you are out there on your own, and the goal is to ...read more

The discussion about fitness and racing, is much the same as the one about fitness and golf, its controversial and everyone seems to have an opinion. While some people point out that guys like Jimmy Spencer and John Daly, reached the pinnacle of their sports, its just as easy to argue that Tiger Woods & Michael ...read more

Well, after my brief trip to Vegas for TDI Cup Driver Selection, I am reminded that it is still the offseason, with the first race still over 2 months away. It gives me some time to continue to work on my fitness (Im finally starting to get my long injured shoulders back to almost 100%) and hopefully build some new ...read more

2010 Driver Selection is now in the books! Yesterday we were out at the beautiful facilities of Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, NV to get in the racecars for the final day of driver selection. What a place, the facility is a country club style, with rows of garages for people to ...read more

Well, here it is, the 2009 TDI Cup Documentary, Racing Under Green, as seen on the Discovery Channel. I’m still hoping it will air on TV up in Canada, but in the meantime, VW has posted it in high quality on the web, so you can all check it out. Really excited about how this turned out, Thanks to Zach ...read more

(Full Photo Gallery below) On Thursday I traveled down to Daytona Beach to spend the weekend at the Rolex 24hrs of Daytona, arguably the biggest endurance race in North America (along with Sebring & Petite). With a handful of my TDI Cup buddies competing in the Fresh From Florida 200 support event on Friday, and former karting mentor Michael Valiante ...read more

Winter X Games 14 is happening this weekend in Aspen, CO, and although I’ve never been more than a casual observer, I’m pumped up this time around to see if Levi LaVallee can stomp his Snowmobile Double Backflip (check out the insane first attempt here). Levi was one of the TDI Cup guest drivers ...read more

This is a bitchin’ little WRC montage to perk up your Wednesday. I first saw this beauty little clip about 7 years ago, way before the days of youtube, and it probably took about 2 hours to download. It was awesome then and its still awesome now. With the likes of Kimi Raikkonen and Ken Block ...read more

A quick reminder that the Jetta Cup Documentary debut’s tonight at 2AM ET, 11PM pacific on the Discovery Channel (US only unfortunately). No word yet on a Canadian air date, but hopefully I’ll find out  soon. The doc will also be on in primetime this week on “HD Theater”, “Science Channel” and “Planet Green” for those with access ...read more