GOOD DEEDS
Last night, I helped participated in a charity fundraiser with the American LeMans Series drivers and the Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders. It was a good time. I was about six or seven seconds slower than the pros (Bryan Herta and Ben Devlin were among fastest under 50 seconds) but as Ben told me, "At least you'll be faster than the cheerleaders."

It wasn't like last year, where we had an actual race. They just let you run some open sessions. I ran one with some media members and went back for more when Herta ran. He is so smooth, no wonder he's fast. The cheerleaders I talked to had a good time too. A lot of them aren't that familiar with racing, so when passing flags were shown to them, they'd just slow down.

My impressions from driving: I was much faster than I went last year. So much so, I was battling quite a bit of oversteer in most of the braking sections. I remembered my teammate told me that I may have been on the brakes too much to go fast, so I wasn't nearly as heavy with my left foot and tried to limit my turns with the throttle. I'm sure that if I ran at the track often than once a year I'd run faster. I was in position to pass a couple times, but got held up by the car in front. All in all. It was good times.