HMC @ MSR Houston, December 8, 2025

Описание: Important time stamps:
0:00:00 Breaking new tires and brakes in
0:09:20 Off-track episode
0:50:00 Reeling in a Ferrari F430 Challenge
1:19:29 Best lap - 1m57.3s
1:29:26 Fly-by clips
1:29:57 Angry dorito noises

This was my first time driving at an event in 4 years I believe. First time back at MSR with the Blueberry in probably 7 or 8 years. It is by far the biggest handful of a car I've driven and I have lots of seat time to catch up on. I had just installed new 245 Continental ExtremeContact Force tires and EBC bluestuff brake pads before the event. It took about the first dozen laps for the tires start gripping and the brakes to start biting. Until then it was sketchy and I was trying to feel out the car as well. Lap times started getting consistent after about 14 laps. Worked my way down to a 1m57.3s lap with certain room for improvement still. The car has incredible amounts of power (and more to come) and required some delicate use of throttle on corner exit as well as some exits it was better to just upshift to avoid getting the turbo too excited.

Ambient temps were in the 60s for pretty much the whole event. Lots of sun as well. Oil temp never got over 190*F, coolant temp never got over 200*F. I'm running my large oil cooler setup with MadFabworx thermostatic perch as well as a GWR 42mm triple-pass radiator with my fan upgrade. The fan didn't even have to kick on once during the event but I did turn it on when exiting track to get any latent heat moving out.

Thanks to Zayne for the fly-by videos of my car! The audio does no justice to how this thing sounds in person but you sure can tell when the blowoff hits.

Build highlights:
Built-motor 2.5L
XeroLimit intake manifold
Garrett G30-660 turbo
Full 3" exhaust with 3x straight-through style mufflers
Ignite85 race fuel
DW3.5 surge tank w/ dual iL350 pumps
Ecoboost MT82 transmission
Keiser Automation Ford 8.8" rear end conversion
RX8 sport brakes
Modified Ohlins race coilovers by InertialLabs
17x9 949 Racing 6UL wheels
245/40-17 Continental Extreme Contact Force tires
EBC bluestuff pads


Lap markers & times for reference:

2:50 30/60
5:10 2/60 2m19.5s

12:08 26/60
14:26 13/60 2m17.8s
16:42 49/60 2m16.6


21:39 40/60
24:03 39/60 2m24.0s
26:22 42/60 2m19.0s
28:40 38/60 2m17.9s
30:53 2/60 2m12.4
33:51 54/60 2m58.9
36:02 19/60 2m10.4
38:09 40/60 2m8.3
40:16 25/60 2m6.7
42:19 59/60 2m3.6s
44:24 34/60 2m4.6s

48:47 31/60
50:49 2/60 2m1.5s
52:47 8/60 1m58.1
54:48 18/60 2m1.2
56:48 39/60 2m0.5s
58:47 15/60 1m58.6
1:00:47 58/60 2m0.7
1:02:47 2/60 1m59.1
1:04:48 30/60 2m1.5s
1:06:50 13/60 2m1.3s
1:08:51 51/60 2m1.6s


1:13:29 53/60
1:15:32 26/60 2m2.5
1:17:31 50/60 1m59.4s
1:19:29 29/60 1m57.3
1:21:28 21/60 1m58.9
1:23:26 56/60 1m58.6s
1:25:26 22/60 1m59.5
1:27:25 3/60 1m58.7