Hello again,
It's been too long. To be honest, I haven't been much of a blogger, but that's about to change.
First off, I have been living in Spain for almost the last year and a half, and it's going well. I've made some good friends, and had some great experiences. Not the least of which is getting some seat time in a kart again, with team Arakart, a regional distributor for the Alonso kart here in Spain. I'm going to try and get a budget together this year for doing some club races in Aragon, so that it can keep fresh behind the wheel. Practicing is good, but racing is great! It is five times better than just putting some laps in. As stated before in a previous post, the adventure that you consumed in whilst racing cannot, in my experience as of yet on this planet, be replicated. So, it is a sensation definitely worth working for.
Another thing is I have earned a position as a high-performance driving instructor here in Madrid with the Escuela Española de Pilotos, which translates to, the Spanish School of Racing Drivers. It is the first, 'official' job I've had as a driving instructor, and it feels great. The work is few and far between, but at least I will occasionally get to look forward to being at the track again, seeing, hearing and smelling the cars go fast. It is a real privilege at the same time though to be able to put this on my driving resume, and in fact a normal resume, since the work is done in Spanish, it should add some more credibility to my intermediate level of Spanish.
Well, I'll promise to start posting more, and I'll also have some links to videos I've made of my latest driving adventures. Stay right there!
-QPRacer
