The Motorsports Beginning

After I set my 30 by 30 Travel Challenge goal, I also decided to finally do one of the things that I always wanted to do: Motorsports. I always perceived there to be three major roadblocks, though:

  1. I still owed a bank for my current daily driver
  2. It’s expensive, right?
  3. Where do I start?

I self-imposed the first roadblock on myself: I didn’t want to put my car at risk while a bank still owned it. The second I found to be only as true as you want it to be. The last one was a tougher nut to crack in isolation, however. That is, until a friend of mine asked to stay on my couch one night.

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The 30 by 30 Challenge

Air travel would be required to visit 30 countries by the time I was 30.

At the end of 2014, I was going through quite the tumultuous transition; I was reinventing myself. Luckily, my short term and long term goals were pretty well understood. But part of what I lost was my medium term goals, the 5 year plan as it were. However, I met some amazing people during that time, including Jess of FullCircleJess and STEM Journeys, and Jason of The Windy Sailboat. Through many games of Scrabble and many bottles of wine among friends, I finally arrived at my 5-year plan: I would challenged myself to visit 30 countries by the time I was 30. The 30 by 30 challenge it was called, and I had just over 5 years to do it.

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The Miata Track Car, Squirtle

I’ll get to the name at the end. In January I took the plunge and procured myself a dedicated track car for my HPDE hobby: a 2006 Mazda MX-5 Miata in Winning Blue.

2006 Mazda Miata home for use as a track car.
Squirtle: A 2006 Mazda MX-5 Miata destined for track use.
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