The First pro car they built- knocked everyone’s socks off, because it looked so awesome and different- however proved to be underpowered compared to the Supercharged Porches as competition… However, the Busby Racing Team placed 3rd at Elkheart Lake and 3rd at Ohio, despite this problem.
Found this cool old picture of the car Jim just finished restoring, back when it was competing against him in his Mazda Lolas…
Now they put it up for sale at Fantasy Junction- See it restored HERE
The Boys of Bonneville… Looks really awesome! Cant wait to see it!!!
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Look back in our Archives for Jim Busby’s drag years… These hunks of metal are what’s left of his beach boy’s drag racing team… At some point the cars were destroyed while racing.
Niether have we… All we know is that salt is in the middle of it, and they seemed like nice people… They didn’t say anything bad did they?
Vallelunga Formula 3 Italia Test Results
1) Michael Lewis - Prema Powerteam - 1:30.266
2) Victor Guerin - Lucidi Motors - 1:30.266
3) Raffaele Marciello - Prema Powerteam - 1:30.341
4) Eddie Cheever - Lucidi Motors - 1:30.484
5) Andrea Roda - Prema Powerteam - 1:30.742
6) Sergio Campana - BVM Target - 1:30.846
7) Brandon Maisano - BVM Target - 1:30.967
8) Jesse Krohn - RP Motorsport - 1:31.231
9) Daniel Mancinelli - RP Motorsport - 1:31.374
10) Maxime Jousse - BVM Target - 1:32.063
Promised a video yesterday about Monday’s trip to Chuckwalla Valley Raceway- Here it is!
Monday Track Day at the beautiful Chuckwalla Valley Raceway… An incredibly fun day with lots of great people, food and fast cars.
Drivers; Taylor Miinch, Roman Lagudi, Matt Ostiguy, and Rick Rawlins..
We have an awesome video coming up, created by Yours Truly…
JBR Motorsports knows how to do racing right. Check it out HERE.
Franciacorta Formula 3 Italia Collective Test Results
1. Michael Lewis - Powerteam Prema – 1:04.52
2. Eddie Cheveer - Lucidi Motors – 1:04.96
3. Victor Guerin - Lucidi Motors – 1:05.14
4. Raffaele Marciello - Powerteam Prema – 1:05.14
5. Kevin Giovesi - Lucidi Motors – 1:05.34
6. Andrea Roda - Powerteam Prema – 1:05.40
7. Sergio Campana - BVM Target – 1:05.44
8. Brandon Maisano - BVM Target – 1:05.60
9. Maxime Jousse - BVM Target – 1:05.60
10. Nelson Mason - RC Motorsport – 1:06 .20
(Data courtesy of www.stopandgo.tv)
Thinking of Bonneville today… It would be nice to be on the salt early this morning… One of my favorite groups there was a San Diego team (Home of your Blogger Extraordinaire) The Bean Bandits… They have some really great iron out on the track and they seem to be doing things right.
I kept hearing that Don Prudhomme is a ‘Funny Car’ racer, so I googled it… This is a good synopsis of the wild sport.
It is similar to drag racing, but they just make them look funny…
Our neighbor in Laguna Seca is really making a name for himself- Go Michael Lewis!
Laguna Beach, California (March 24, 2011) — Michael Lewis quickly
adapted to Italy’s Mugello Circuit during the recent Formula 3 Italia
collective test session, and set fast time during both days of testing
on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22 and 23. In fact, Michael’s time of
1:38.989 earned him the distinction of the only Formula 3 Italia
driver during testing to break the 1:39 barrier.
This has been an amazing car to see come together… The Busby Team has really reinvented this baby… Get ready to see it in action- Friday is Test Day, and drivers Rick Knoop and Julian Mann will get to dream of championships.
That is a fine looking man.
This is the Special Judges Award given to the Jim Khougaz Roadster owned by Richard Munz and restored by Busby Racing… We headed out there in August, it sure was fun… The car also received 3rd Place in it’s class… Not too shabby. More HERE.
