About Ted Cahall
Ted Cahall is an SCCA Racing enthusiast. He currently owns two Z06 Corvettes and has driven his C5 2001 model in various PDX and HPDE driving events at Summit Point Motorsports Park in West Virginia and Pacific Raceways in the state of Washington. He started his love for Corvettes back when he was “knee high to a grasshopper” in Fairview Park, OH at three or four years old. Finally realizing his dream in 1995, Ted bought his first brand new C4 Corvette for a bit over $30k.
Since then he has always at least owned one Corvette including the 2001 C5 Z06 Corvette he currently races and the 2006 C6 Z06 Corvette that he keeps clean with low miles for the occasional summer drive or weekend ride.
Ted started his ambitions with the SCCA in late 2005 when he was living in Seattle, WA. He first took a one-day driving course at Pacific Raceways through the ProFormance Drving School under the direction of Don Kitch, Jr. “One look is all it took” – as they say. Ted returned for his Advanced Driving School certification in May of 2006 and was awarded his SCCA Novice Permit. He returned to Pacific Raceways numerous times for “seat time” where there are 10-20 cars on the road course at a time with special passing areas and rules.
In 2007 Ted moved to Virginia and began work at AOL. The new job, heavy workload, and general lack of understanding of the WDCR SCCA system precluded Ted from hitting the racetracks in 2007. Finally back on track (no pun intended), Ted was able to make three different outings in 2008 and secured his Novice License with the SCCA. Two of these events were “High Performance Driving Events” in Summit Point, WV – similar to “seat time” up in Seattle. One was sponsored by the SCCA (photos) and the other was sponsored by the Northern Virginia Corvette Club (photos). The third event was another High Performance Driving Event sponsored by Mercedes-Benz AMG. It was held at the Pocono Raceway in Pocono, PA.
There are several SCCA races held in the northern Virginia area under an SCCA program called the Mid-Atlantic Road Racing Series (MARRS). The plan for 2009 was to get the 2001 C5 Z06 Corvette to pass all SCCA GCRs. Instead, Ted decided to race in the Spec Miata (SM) class in the Washington DC Region (WDCR) of the SCCA. This allowed Ted to enter his first SCCA sanctioned race, MARRS 1 (blog), on April 19th and obtain his SCCA Regional License after his second race, MARRS 4 (blog), on May 31st. Ted received his National SCCA Club Racing license in October of 2009. You can see all of the events that Ted attended in 2009 here as well as events he attended in 2008 here.
Ted also drag races his Corvettes when he can get out to a local track. In 2005, Ted drag raced his 2001 Corvette at Infineon Raceway in California. In 2008, Ted drag raced his new 2006 C6 Z06 Corvette out at Cecil County Dragway in Maryland (more photos, blog).