The ShiftGate Journal

The Grid.

Documenting a real Canadian club racing season — the licensing, the costs, the weekends, and everything the sport doesn't tell you until you're already in it.

NASCAR Came to Calabogie. I Came to Learn.

A NASCAR Canada weekend at Calabogie, spent from outside the car — my coach in a stock car, a teammate's first win, and what a grassroots paddock full of clipboards and whiteboards taught me about building shiftgate.

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The Team That Runs My Season Just Raced the Pros

TWOth raced IMSA at CTMP — and put the driver-development ladder in writing. The Shopify Racing Development Ladder runs from a first race car to Le Mans. My name is on the second rung.

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The Hardest Part of Racing Isn't the Driving

Why I'm building ShiftGate with Travis Hill — the friction nobody warns you about, the ladder from Miata to Le Mans, and why I'm documenting a whole season while we build.

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CTMP: Two Days at Canada's Best Track

Three lap times tell the story of my first regional race weekend, in a Radical SR3 RSX at Canada's benchmark circuit — what the track asks of you, where the half-second came from, and why finishing clean is a skill.

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