This past weekend with NASA Rocky Mountain at High Plains Raceway was exactly the kind of racing weekend that reminds you why we keep coming back to the track. The competition was strong, the conditions kept everyone on their toes, and every session felt like a chance to learn something […]
Robert Butler
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The 2025 race season has come to a close and it was a really great growth year for me as a competitor. The season started well, I trained extensively in the off season on the simulator, working on inputs, trail braking and general race craft. This resulted in a vast […]
Attended my first SCCA event of the 2025 season Saturday morning at Pueblo Motorsports Park. Woke up at 4am to get to the track early enough to swap tires and get checked in. Gridding started at 7:30 am and it was a wild 3 session time attack format. Was gridded […]
A new class was added in late 2024 by the National Auto Sport Association which allows drivers entered in all time trial classes to compete against each other, not by pure speed, but with consistency. The class results are compiled each race day by taking the top 4 times of […]
The 2025 Time Trials season is HERE! Our opening event took place at High Plains Raceway on the 26-27th of April and the car was ready to go! I had a made a few changes over the off season, most impactful was the driver mod. I’ve been sim racing and […]
The 2024 season is complete, as is my rookie year in all 3 series I competed in. It was an interesting journey from novice just 14 months ago, to competing against some of the best grassroots racers in the Rocky Mountain region. The results were a bit of a shocker […]
I finally returned to High Plains Raceway for the first time since September 2023, back then was one of my first professional lessons as a Time Trails driver through the NASA HPDE program. I arrived Friday afternoon for some testing and set up for the weekend and hit the track […]
A couple weeks ago I attended the Slush Motorsports event at Pikes Peak International Raceway basically as a marketing day and a fun open lapping day. The event ran Friday into Saturday evening and there were thousands of spectators for both days. The event catered to car enthusiasts of all […]
May 17-19th 2024 marked the second event in the NASA RM TT calendar. I rolled out on Friday to test the car for a few laps, only ran 1 session and about 6 laps Friday and ran pretty well for me and the car – 1:50 consistent. I was out […]
The 2024 SCCA Rocky Mountain Time Trials season kicked off this year at LaJunta Raceway in LaJunta, Colorado. With new classing similar to NASA TT, the racing was VERY close and competitive, RMTT really nailed the classing this season as you’ll see in the results of the weekend trials. The […]