Schnell Works Motorsports. Pikes Peak or bust! Day 2 and 3
The second day of practice had the team running on the bottom section of the course from Start Line to Glen Cove. The times that competitiors posted on this section will determine the qualifying order for race day on Sunday. This year the organizers saw a huge increase in entries (around 200), which meant we [...]
Schnell Works Motorsports. Pikes Peak or Bust! Day 1
Gold miners in the mid-1800s coined the term “Pikes Peak or Bust” as a motivational motto while en route to moving to the southern Colorado region in hopes that they would one day strike it rich. Racers from all over the world descend upon Colorado Springs every year not to strike it rich, but to [...]
Back To School – Without The Kicking and Screaming.
I don’t know about you, but my youth was spent dreading those terrible words that my mom always seemed to mutter around the late July, early August timeframe, she would ask, “Hey Ryan, are you ready to go back to school?” Is that really a fair question, I mean come on, what kid is EVER [...]
Living the dream – A supercar tour through Italy.
Living the dream – A supercar tour through Italy By Ryan Schnell “We don’t sell cars, we sell dreams,” so says Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezemolo. Dreaming is what I was doing for the 40-minute Eurostar train ride from Florence to Bologna, where my wife and I met up with our tour guide for the [...]
Supercars Exposed
“We don’t have the police on the payroll!” exclaimed Didier Theys, a two-time winner of the renowned Daytona 24 hour endurance race and the lead instructor for World Class Driving. This bit of advice was given to an anxious group of car enthusiasts waiting to get behind the wheel of $1.5 million dollars worth of [...]
