After a week break, I’m really excited to be heading to Houston tomorrow for this weekend’s race. If it were up to me, I’d be racing every weekend, but I know it will be like that later in the year when we have three in a row race runs.

This past weekend was Easter and with three boys under the age of six it is always eventful. My grandfather (Bob Tasca Sr.) and grandmother came over for dinner. He loves being around his great grandchildren but when the Tascas get together all we talk about is cars and racing. My grandfather is the ultimate competitor and that attitude is what drives me. All he wanted to know is what we where working on to make the car run better!

My team is really excited to get back to the track and compete this weekend. We’ve got a lot of confidence going into the weekend because we’re finally starting to nail down a baseline on our car. I knew that with the new chassis and a new team, it would probably take five or six races to get things exactly how we like them, and we’re getting on the right track.

One of my biggest hopes for this weekend is to get as many runs in as possible. We’re hoping that it doesn’t rain the way it did in Phoenix and in Gainesville so we can get all four qualifying runs in. For any team, run data is really important, but since we are in our first year together, getting as much run data as we can is really important to us right now.

Well I’m off to pack and get ready for my flight tomorrow morning… we’ll see you at the track!