Tony Buffomante's Mustang Challenge Preseason Report - Prioritizing the Goals

Prioritizing the GoalsGreetings to the Modified Mustangs & Fords faithful! By way of introduction, I'm Tony Buffomante of Chicago, IL. I'm a partner at KPMG by day and race car driver on nights and weekends. Like many of you I would guess, I've done various club events and also some Pro racing. In the last 25 years, I've run everything from go-karts in New Zealand, to SCCA, NASA, F2000, Grand-Am, etc. In my early 20s, we won the Pro STAR Mazda championship, were part of the Team KOOL Green Academy, and got close to going to the Indy 500. These days, I've been doing sports cars (FFR Challenge Series Roadster, Grand-Am, and now the FR500s in the Mustang Challenge), not much call for a 36 year-old Indy car driver with no money. After winning the SCCA runoffs, three straight NASA championships, and a bunch of karting championships, we were plenty ****y going into the inaugural season of the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge last year. Well, we did run pretty well early on, with some podiums; but by all accounts we got our tails handed to us, and ended up 4th in the championship. This year we are coming guns-a-blazing! There are lots of fast guys out there so it will be a challenge, but that's why I, and readers like you, love it! Come along for the ride with me this year for the 2009 Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup series events. I'll give you the inside scoop, along with audio and video from the driver's seat. Before we get started, let's take a look at a preseason report.


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