Testing in Fontenay-le-Comte

Last week I linked up with Lux Motorsport in Fontenay-le-Comte in France for the first day of testing in Euro NASCAR.

With the temperature hovering just above freezing on a wet track and no sunlight, I had my hands full in the 400hp, ZERO nanny NASCAR. After the first few session sliding through the corners and learning the track, I started picking up pace until I locked up the rears going into turn 1 and backed into the gravel trap.

After lunch the track started drying out enough to put slicks on as I became more comfortable pushing the car more and more. By the time the next spat of rain came, I very narrowly threw down the best time of the day before we called it.

The Euro NASCAR is 100% a drivers car with no ABS or traction control and a sequential gear box. The thing is raw and handles surprisingly well in the corners. I've never driven anything like it before, but very much looking forward to the next test before the season starts.

Huge thanks to Lux Motorsport and NASCAR Euro Series for having me out!

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Meet Jason Friday

Jason is an American racing driver and professional driver coach based in Colorado. After finding success in GT and touring car racing, he now works as both a driver and coach across a variety of motorsports programs from road racing to rally.