Korean tire manufacturer, Hankook, partners with 6 Gun Racing for the 2006 race season. The team's SSC Civic Si will race exclusively on Hankook's Z214 Race Tire in all 2006 races, including Regional and National events. Driver/Crew Chief/Tire Changer/Windshield Wiper/Head Lackey Tom Hoppe had this to say about this latest news: "I had great results on Hankook tires during my autocross career, and I'm really excited to have them on board during 6 Gun Racing's play for the 2006 SCC National Championship. I believe that the Z214 is the top DOT R-compound on the market, which will provide me with a huge edge over the competition."

Well the sticker process is not complete but I've made some good progress. Stay tuned as dAng! goes under the knife this week to upgrade the turbo, intake, external waste gate, fuel (including methanol injection), and boost controller. Many thanks to all our sponsors.

6 Gun Racing held a eating competition last Saturday for Tommy Lyman's birthday. The venue was Fogo de Chao, the revered Buckhead meat factory, and a good time was had by all.

We will be coming out with our 2nd in-house designed part in the next month or so! These upgraded ball joints will greatly improve your Impreza's handling. Anti Lift Kit, move over! We will be doing extensive testing on the prototype units over the next few weeks and hope to have the product to market towards the end of April. While we would love to release these sooner, this isn't something we want to rush as its an integral part of the suspension. Along with real world testing on the Time Trial car, as well as a test fitment and trials on the T2 racecar (testing only, no competition), we will be doing lab testing on these parts to make sure they can hold up to abuse. We can't wait to get this part out to everyone, as it will improve handling and the camber curve on every Subaru from a 1997 Impreza Brighton to a 2006 STi and everything inbetween.

Since I'm a nerd and have a Pocket PC Phone with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, I tweaked the website to be viewed perfectly on a handheld device. I had to disable the CSS rollover menu and make a plain text one instead, and also tweak a few other CSS items to make it appear correctly. At only 150Kb including that big ol' top image, the site loads pretty quickly as well.

The trip out here has been great, aside from temps in the 40s and a freak snowstorm late Friday night. Laguna Seca is an amazing facility, but unfortunately the track was mostly washed out and required repairs;therefore the following pics are of static vehicles. I also managed to get into some serious trouble, those who are "in the know" will know what I am talking about. Ciao. T

Lets discuss dates and game plan for our first trackday. I would rather do it on a sat of sun so we don't need to take off work... I will be out of town this month on the 13th through the 24th or 31st. If I am gone through the 31st then I could take the weekend of the 25th and 26th off. I forget what weekend in april when lyman and I are headed up to autobahn/road america / putnam or when the autoX that he keeps yapping about is... When you crackers free? I think we should team with JonK for this first one for help on how to keep it organized and so forth. We could get wrx-alt involved or possibly EVO Ga///se too. We could do up to 10 or 30 peeps... ( I vote 30, especially if Jon K is on board).

Well, we decided to get out of the stoneage here at Trackmonkey Racing. We finally got hooked up and got ourselves a blog. This way we can publish all of our news items, as well as endlessly blab about our racing and things that are happening with our cars. Enjoy!