For the win.

Friday, July 17, 2026 - roughly 12:11 p.m.

The first AAR Eagle Demo lap session last weekend.

This moment was everything.

Driving a car I hadn't been in since 2022, regaining the old muscle memory of what it felt like to drive the Eagle DGF, the car I promised Dan I'd always keep flying...

Side-by-side with a the '81 Eagle, a car we loaded up in a downpour in Connecticut on July 4, 2008. Seeing it belch fire and spool up so ferociously with Reid at the helm was perhaps the coolest thing I will ever see on a race track. It had to be Chip's old car that made me feel that.

Everything there-after over the course of the following 48 hours was icing on the cake.

I don't really know how to explain what happened last weekend though. Helping to bring AAR's past to RA is something I will always hold dear, and it was a team effort all-around.

Meeting the legends that came for the reunion gave me goosebumps all weekend. Then came the Saturday photo shoot.

When they called for my family to pose in front of the cars, it started as just me and my son. It was too much for this lad. I had to turn around for a second.

I said hello to many people, but never want to say goodbye. Its all too fragile that way.

So until next time.