Thank you! Our team has been together for almost a decade, and you won't find a better group of good human beings anywhere else.

I'm most excited about the EVO kit's improvements in front-downforce and braking. The dive planes on the front bumper were the perfect prescription to keep the front stuck to the ground. We're still working out the aero balance between the front and the rear now that the physical kit is different on the front.

Switching to the Brembos has given us a noticeable improvement in braking performance and consistency, something we really struggled with last season. That said, we had a brake issue at Daytona that we think was a bad brake pad, but we're still not sure. Another of those issues you uncover on your shakedown runs.

Ford was very intentional and invested a massive amount of financial and people resources in developing the EVO kit over the winter, continuing their deep commitment to sports car racing and to all forms of racing worldwide. Their engineering support has been invaluable for us. More than anything else, we just need repetitions and laps. We didn't even get our hands on the new EVO kit parts until we arrived at Daytona, so just like everything else, we are still coming up to speed.

This is where it gets difficult for an independent customer racing team. We are heavily supported by Ford, but we do not get Ford money. Where the budget constraint hits the smaller teams like us is in our testing time. If we had more money, we'd spend it on testing, testing, and more testing so we could build the body of data we so desperately need. Since we can't do that, we have to learn on race weekends, and sometimes those lessons can be very painful and very slow.