Jungle Motor Sports

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Jungle MotorSports on the Garage Heros In Training Podcast

I was an honored guest of the Garage Heroes - In Training podcast...we spend over an hour discussing dozens of topics surrounding High Performance Driving and amature racing. Find it on any podcast player of your choosing, by searching for "Garage Heros In Trainging" or the direct link here: https://tinyurl.com/AaronJongbloedt

If/When their is a next time I will get a real microphone, consintrate on using less "umms and ahhhs", and remember that even though this was a Zoom call, when it gets turned into an audio podcast, one doesn't see body language! LOL.

Shoutouts to: Land O' Lakes Region SCCA-racing.com, Heyward Wagner, Burnt Ends Endurance Racing, NASA Central Region, Dave Royce, Joey Todd, Brainerd International Raceway, BIR Performance Driving School, and Charlie Laing

GHIT 0292: Aaron Jongbloedt

Aaron Jongbloedt from Jungle Motorsports joins us for this episode and we discuss all things racing, even ice boating. Aaron seems to race in all series and all types of racing, we may even be able to make it to an ice racing event with him post plague. Since he has such a wide range of experiences, we try to cover many of them as possible to show how each series and club can vary and each offers a different blend of driving and racing flavor. The best thing you can do to start is try as many as you can and you will undoubtedly find one that matches your interests and maximizes the fun. Plus an impromptu race car intervention, lol.

volunteering as an avenue to start getting into racing and saving on the amount of money needed.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/AaronJongbloedt

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Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Highlights for this episode include:

1) Why he selected Spec Miata as a primary racing class and why he also includes and enjoys other types of racing.

2) Aaron opens up the trap door to a quick summary of our racing cars and HPDE cars. We need to get a bit more focus. Time for a garage sale. We may have a race car (or truck) for you, lol

3) Vicki is not familiar with the track at Brainerd, but after our discussion it sounds like we will be soon, lol. Top tip: Also obey the team CFO.

4) Some of the plusses and minuses of racing Spec Miata and how it has influenced hos racing approach and philosophy.

5) Are there significant differences between instructing in autocross and instructing on a race track? Also a discussion of the potential benefits of autocross before driving on track. The skills are complimentary but the approach can be quite different in some ways.

6) Aaron discusses his experience with almost all of the amateur endurance racing series and some of the new ones starting this season.

7) As expected, we also discuss Spec Miata and Vicki is still intimidated with the concept of bump drafting. This will likely change with time. We have a NB Spec Miata car that needs a bit of love to race this season, but we are hopeful. Bilstein shocks may be in our future.

8) Why does Aaron seem to prefer arrive and drive (Seat Rentals) for endurance racing events. Bill has always had concerns and questions that has prevented him from doing many arrive and drives. We discuss several of them.

9) Money saving tips and insight into what is required and what is avoidable to be competitive in the series, locally and nationally.

10) Somehow we return to the topic of our cars. It appears we are in the midst of an informal race car intervention. lol. (Probably long overdue)

11) We also have a discussion of the storage required for a racing car and team. Aaron is curious about the hangar that we use as our teams primary hub.

12) How volunteering at events can minimize or potentially eliminate the cost of racing.

13) How our "press" claim was received by a racing series. (as you would expect)

14) Just when you thought it was over, we get into a discussion of some of the local midwestern tracks that Aaron suggest we try. As always, the answer is "yes"

To follow Aaron further:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaron.jongbloedt

His blog: https://junglemotorsports.blogspot.com

https://www.facebook.com/GarageHeroesIT

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Custom Hotwheels

Early Christmas present for me! I commissioned https://164custom.com/ take a Miata Hotwheels and paint it up like my racecar! Feel free to reach out to him have him do other custom cars!

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

JackPine Sprints 08/2021 w/ SCCA at BIR

JackPine Sprints with SCCA-LoL at Brainerd International Raceway 08/28~29/2021

Saturday we had our qualifying session in the rain. I did pretty well qualifying 4th out 10 other Miata's. Fell back a few positions in the race. The track had a few damp spots. Big crash between a Miata I was playing with and another car in a different class who was a lap down. A real 'code brown' moment for me!

Spec Miata drivers viewing my video of the crash via my Garmin. Not exactly sure what conversation was going on, but it must have been funny!

Photo Credit: Jessica Jonk

Photo Credit Chris Davey

I love the way the water comes off of the car in this picture.

Saturday Race from Garmin

Sunday Race from Garmin

Saturday Race from GoPro

Sunday Race from GoPro

A huge thanks to "my crew" Hannah, Cameron, Andy, and Micah

Monday, August 16, 2021

“DonnyBrooke Dawgs” August 14-15

LuckyDog Endurance Race at Brainerd International Raceway 8/14~15/21

Saturday 7 hour race: P3 over all, P2 in class. Sunday 8 hour race: P8 over all? P5 in class? Need to check that again.... Our Sunday strategy of driving 3~5 seconds a lap slower, in order to stretch our driver stints to 1hr 55min thus having to do only three pit stops vs four pit stops didn't work as well as we hoped (despite running a nearly perfect race, no black flags, no mechanical issues, no offs or crashes, and good pit stops). 1066 race miles!

My Saturday stint while trying to conserve fuel, lots of short shifting.

2021 Brainerd SpeedTour July 17~18 2021

SVRA (Sportscar Vintage Racing Association) and TransAm Pro Racing came to Brainerd International Raceway July. Part of SVRA's program was a the creation of a class called "Mazda Miata Heritage Cup" a few years ago; allowing all Miata's up to 2005.

****Draft videos to come