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The journey to personalize my car began immediately. I started with powder coating the wheels to a slick gloss black finish for an aggressive look. Next on the list was to let her breathe better with a catback Fabspeed exhaust. I had plans to personalize my car even further, but they took second fiddle to my new obsession; racing.
Going fast in a sports car goes without saying. Owning a Porsche was simply a push in the right direction to start racing. Oddly enough, I had played racing games on my
phone and knew the concepts of the racing line, braking points, etc. and was ready to try them out in the real world.
I began my racing journey with NASA’s HPDE program in the Cayman. Being
a rookie in the racing world, I felt uncomfortable tracking my car. I worried about broken parts, or at the very worst, a crash. I shouldn’t have been worried. The Cayman performed fabulously, and my first track experience was devoid of any of these horrors, minus a bent rim. (We will leave
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