Hi, Nic Jonsson here again! Hope all of you have had a good week. I had a very interesting and busy week! After returning from Europe last week, I did all my "home duties"...mowing the lawn, watering the plants, do the laundry (not really)...I've been locked out of that room long time ago. Trying to catch up on things in the office and get all the Kinetic Motorsports BMW cars on the road for Mid-Ohio. All this went really smooth so now I just needed to get myself to Ohio for the race weekend. It was really hard to leave the family again after being gone for fifteen days straight and home for just one day but duty calls. Fortunately, I have a very supportive wife and son, not that he is old enough to understand yet, but I still have their support...I hope!

Arriving to a rainy Ohio with a weather forecast for more rain and thunderstorms was not what I had been hoping for. Not that I don't like driving in the rain but it makes it miserable for the fans and they really deserve good weather and close wheel-to-wheel racing. Fortunately, the weather improved and we just had some rain in the first practice and in warm up. 

We had changed things pretty drastically on the car for this race and it seemed to be for the better. We qualified 5th but less than 1/10th from 3rd. This is the most competitive we have been in dry conditions all year so we were pretty happy and excited. At the start of the race, all the drivers experienced a lot of pick up on the tires due to the previous race, KONI Challenge that had just wrapped up. This made it very difficult to drive. It took a long time to clean them off and get a handling on the car. Eventually we settled in and ran a consistent first stint in 4th place before I handed the car over to Ricardo about 45 minutes into the race. Ricardo kept his calm and was running in 4th for a long time until one of the cars went off track and we inherited 3rd place. The last pit stop was fast and smooth from our Krohn Racing crew and that helped bring us to 2nd place behind the #01 Ganassi car. The last 45 minutes of the race was a battle between us. We finished in a strong 2nd place which gave us great motivation and excitement for the upcoming races. Let's hope we are on to something and it appears our hard work developing this Ford powered Proto-Auto Lola is finally starting to pay off.

Following the Mid-Ohio race, I went home for 2 days before heading to North Carolina for a two-day test with our Kinetic Motorsports team. We brought our new E92 BMW M3's to see if we can get a better handle on these cars. This going to be very exciting work and we'll see where we end up with the different settings on that chassis.

It's been a fantastic two weeks of racing! We had two podium finishes (3rd at Le Mans & 2nd at Mid-Ohio), in two very different cars (Daytona Prototype & Ferrari 430 GT), on two different continents (France & US) and lots of travel in between.

I really want to thank everyone on the crew from both Risi Competizione and Krohn Racing for their hard, very professional teamwork that has made all these accomplishments possible. I also want to say a big "thank you" to all the fans out there and especially to those that come to the races. I really appreciate it when fans come up and chat with me at the tracks...that really makes the race weekends special for me. We (drivers) could not do this without you and we really value your support!

Stay safe and we'll see you next at Daytona on July 4th weekend!

Your friend,
Nic