After my deep dive into Classing the Thunder Roadster, it is exceedingly clear that Yamaha-powered variants are running at a significant disadvantage. Furthermore, I am on a quest, so to speak, to find a competitive, sub-20k racecar that punches well beyond its price point. And since the Spec...
I am happy to report that my love affair with the Thunder Roadster has not waned. If anything, it has sparked an engineering journey that I am super excited about. And throughout that process, I have found the documentation around the Thunder Roadster severely lacking. As I continue down this path...
My first race in the Thunder Roadster was everything I wanted it to be except for one thing: oil temps. As I raced through the field during the Aussie Pursuit race, I was closely monitoring my oil temperature gauge as the temperature crept to 290 degrees. Flirting dangerously close to being pinged...
Sometimes your subconscious makes choices that you aren’t 100 percent aware of. And over the last two seasons, I have experimented in several racing series. With nothing quite feeling right. There was always this nagging, ‘this ain’t it’ feeling, no matter how I approached...
