05/13/2026
From the mind of Rob:
I really need to stop with the sappy posts⌠but we also havenât been terribly public about a major issue we ran into with the car.
Turns out, when we originally built the cage for the Audi, we built it to Sports Car Club of America spec. The problem? Pikes Peak requires additional tubing thickness in certain areas, meaning the cage technically wasnât compliant for the mountain.
There have been a few moments during this whole journey where the imposter syndrome has hit me pretty hard. Why am I the one who gets to do this? Why does our little chaos-fueled skunk team deserve this level of support?
Last week was one of those moments.
Ironically, it was Josh from Babyface Fabrication who caught the issue while digging deeper into the rules. Ultimately, that responsibility falls on me, and I fully own missing it.
What happened next honestly blew me away.
I donât know what Josh and Gina had planned for the last six days, but I know they absolutely moved mountains for us. In less than a week, they managed to get an entirely new cage into the Audi, add additional reinforcement bars, build the fuel cell mount, fabricate a firewall, and knock out a pile of other details that suddenly became âmust happen nowâ items.
That level of support is hard to put into words.
This whole Pikes Peak effort has reminded me over and over that race cars may be built out of steel, aluminum, and bad financial decisions⌠but race programs are built out of people.
Huge thanks to Josh and Gina at BabyFace Fabrication for the insane amount of support, craftsmanship, and what appears to be a deeply personal grudge against sleep!
