Get out your Roomba, its time to clean up! Sam Ryan sweeps races 3 & 4 of our 2022 Championship round at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. With a few top contenders absent from the weekend, & engine woes for top contender Ray Carmody, we’ve got some changes towards the top of the 2022 points battle […]
POD CAST
Challenge Cup Series Sponsor Ross Bentley of “Speed Secrets” interviews drivers coach Jim Kearney. Check our the interview using the link below. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/speedsecrets/183_-_2-28-21_14.44.mp3
2020 Season & Pittsburgh Int. #2 Review
by Ryan Donaghy As day broke on the morning of Friday, October 16th, the drivers of Challenge Cup Series prepared for our final race weekend of the season. We all enjoy preparing our cars, driving to the track, and getting ready for another great weekend with our extended family. But then we all have to […]
Thirteen Bad Thoughts
by Jim Kearney It gets very quiet on the false grid. You are strapped down like a prisoner but your brain is thinking jail break. After the hubbub of getting the car ready, you are alone with your thoughts. The question is – are they friend or foe? There is a lot to think about […]
CCS Fights Cancer Together
Challenge Cup Series driver Arnie Carbaugh (Carbaugh Racing) organized a fundraiser last fall at the series finale at Watkins Glen International in an effort to support and fund raise for American Cancer Society. With the CCS family knowing this disease has hit close to home for Arnie and his family, we could not stand by. […]
Megan’s Way: An 18 Year-Old’s Open Wheel Odyssey
by Jim Kearney Racing is full of incredible stories but this one reads like a Hollywood movie script. In just two years, Canadian Megan Gilkes has gone from driving a $5,000 Formula Vee to testing a turbocharged Ligier F3 car with 300 hp. She is one of twenty-eight remaining candidates for a free ride in […]
Challenge Cup Series History
by Tim Sager Formula Vee has been an exciting, low cost racing class for more than five decades. However, by around 2010 a lot of experienced drivers were coming to a realization- it wasn’t fun anymore. Greg Davis and Ray Carmody, two veteran Vee competitors got together to do something about it. They started planning […]
Stalking the Wild Mid-Ohio
This article was originally published in Speed Secrets Weekly e-newsletter. Subscribe at Speed Secrets Weekly and every week you’ll get a thoughtful article about driving for just $24/yr. By Jim Kearney, Kearney Driver Development Mid-Ohio is like that attractive passive-aggressive date you went out with for a while. Good looking, yes, but you were really […]
Mosport Impressions
By CCS Driver, Greg Davis, 1976 Caldwell D-13 I attended the 1969 Can-Am at Mosport (Canadian Tire Motorsport Park) as a spectator, but had never put a wheel on this legendary track up until the May 2-3, 2015 Challenge Cup event held there. I thought I would jot down my observations about driving this circuit, […]
