Doesn’t take a lot of convincing to get me to drive up to New Caney’s Speedsportz Racing Park. It’s a great track that looks like so much fun to drive. Though I’m trying to get my car to a point where it can actually pass the KnuckleUp approval gauntlet, I’ve had a blast attending as media this year because as it turns out, Speedsportz is also pretty fun to take pictures at.
Ironically for me, your car doesn’t need to be on the vetted KnuckleUp list to drive during the new Lights series, so I missed a driving opportunity during the weekend, but it’s whatever, my wallet wasn’t prepped to drive this month anyway (this is cope).
So for my third time here as media this year, I decided to try and mix things up a bit. This included shooting from new places on the property and sometimes it worked out to some new perspectives, especially when paired with KnuckleUp driving the (new to me) back section of the course. Shooting from the kart building’s veranda that overlooked that stretch of the track kind of reminded me of the view I got shooting from the grandstands at Texas World Speedway (RIP).
Lights is actually a tandem competition series put on with some help from Valino Tires. Aside from using the back section of Speedsportz as the competition layout, Saturday brought a lot of firsts. In the 1v1 Tandem comp I saw a lot of drivers line up with each other that I’ve never seen battle before. Previously I’ve only seen KnuckleUp’s team tandem competition during DoubleCup, so I had forgotten what it looks like when cars really put pressure on each other during a 1v1 tandem.
Always a refreshing reminder that KnuckleUp isn’t just another hard park car show, but a hard driving…car show.
Anyway, check out the gallery below for photos from Saturday, and drop me a line on instagram if you’d like a high-res copy of something.
