I am happy. Over the moon, actually. It’s been 3 weeks since our first race as a Pro Spec Miata team in the FARAUSA and Collegiate Racing Series Championships, and the core memories stored in my LLM-brain are still firing like crazy.
It’s happening! We built our first pro team and we’re getting better at it.
Driver Consistency is the PERFECT PLATFORM FOR GROWTH
After six years of grinding in karting—doing nationals, regionals, and club races—and a 2025 “shakedown” season plagued by electrical gremlins and broken fuel hoses, we have finally arrived. On December 19th, my driver earned his hard card, proving he has the skill to be here.
3 weeks ago, with all of our 9-races of testing in 2025, we put Toshi #81 on the grid for the first full season Pro racing. It was epic, qualifying P9 in a grid of 15 and essentially placed exactly where we started with great racing through all 3 races.
But the biggest win this weekend wasn’t just the joys of racing… it was the data.
The Greatest Gift: Consistent Data
You might look at the results and ask, “Peter, is a P10 finish exciting?” You don’t know what I know. My driver gifted me the greatest thing a team principal could ask for: Consistency.
When looking at the telemetry, we saw lap after lap of pure stability:
Lap 1: 44s
Lap 2: 44s
Lap 3: 43s
Lap 4: 43s
etc…
Why this matters: For those sophisticated in the racing world, this is the best platform you can ask for.
If a driver is variable—running +2 seconds one lap and -1.5 the next—you never know if the issue is the car or the driver. You can’t tune a car for a variable driver. But because our driver was consistent despite changes in track evolution, we can now dial in the setup. We can pinpoint exactly where to brake later or track out further.
As a data-scientist who understands the profundity of this with a human-actor I can tune-like-a-machine… this is most excellent (as I writhe my hands in anticipation)…
Race Weekend Results
We entered the weekend with a brand new engine package similar to what the top guys are running. The car felt solid, and for the first time, the driver radioed in to tell our engineer, Juan, that the shifter was “like butter.” :)
Here is how the weekend shook out in a grid of 15:
Qualifying: P10
Race 1: Started P10 ➡️ Finished P10
Race 2: Started P10 ➡️ Finished P10
Race 3: Started P12 ➡️ Finished P9 (Great overtakes!)
We have the perfect driver to work with: he is teachable, he doesn’t have variability, and the car has zero issues. We have the perfect platform to begin molding a championship winner.
Thank you for all the DMs of encouragement. Building companies is hard and fun. Building race teams is hard(er) and fun(er).
Hit me up if you want to play with me (or help)!
Best,
ps
Enjoy some race radio :)