{"id":3356,"date":"2016-05-08T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2016-05-08T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:16:23","slug":"aaron-telitz-chipping-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/?p=3356","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Telitz: Chipping Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>BIRCHWOOD, Wis<\/strong>. \u2013 Welcome back everyone! I\u2019m super glad to have a bit of free time to write up a review of what I\u2019ve been up to since the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. I\u2019m writing this during the first day off I\u2019ve had in quite some time. While I\u2019m not rocketing around a racetrack I work at the Minikahda Club in Minneapolis as an outside services attendant and a caddy. It\u2019s an awesome way to meet new people and the bonus of being able to golf for free at an incredible course is a nice perk! We\u2019ll check back in on my day job later on, but first, let\u2019s dive into how my rookie season in the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires is shaping up so far!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Four races, four podiums, two poles, one win and second in the championship standings. The stats don\u2019t lie. My 2016 season is off to an incredible start! To even get a seat in Pro Mazda was a huge accomplishment for me. And now to have this much success right off the bat is unreal. I\u2019m feeling super comfortable this year and am just driving free and relaxed! So that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to continue to do.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m going to try something a little different with this blog and take you into a day in my life leading up to a race weekend\u2026 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thanks to my cousin Mark, I live at his house in Mounds View, Minn. A suburb of Minneapolis. Mark\u2019s \u201csponsorship\u201d is free rent! Despite his requests you will never get to see a photo of Mark\u2019s face plastered on the side of my car. I am the official lawn care expert of the house as I put down some of the best mow lines you\u2019ve ever seen. But I digress about my awesome lawn fading skills. As I mentioned at the beginning I work at the Minikahda Club during the week. The Minikahda Club is the oldest country club west of the Mississippi! With history like that you can imagine that they attract some pretty powerful members. As I am constantly trying to expand my network of contacts you can see how a country club is a great place to work. It has given me the opportunity to meet people I would have never been able to get in contact with otherwise. I go to work every day channeling my inner Danny Noonan and looking like a frat boy from Texas. As an added bonus of being able to mingle with millionaires all day I also get to drive the cart that picks up all the balls at the driving range! As you can see from the photo it has a pretty aggressive front wing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After work at the club I usually hang around and hit some golf balls at the range or chipping green. I hereby challenge anyone in the racing business to a golf match. I hear IMS has a pretty nice course. Loser pays the green fees!<\/p>\n

After a little golf practice I head home and try to figure out how I\u2019m going to keep affording to race. The breakdown of this activity goes a little like this: Feeling completely hopeless; coming up with a brilliant idea; getting that idea shot down; start thinking Walter White had the right idea; having a small breakthrough; having most of that small breakthrough fall apart; actually making something happen.<\/p>\n

I am super stoked to be able to say that the newest part of \u201cactually making something happen\u201d is that I have partnered with Morrie\u2019s Mazda for the month of May and the Grand Prix of Road America! If you\u2019re in the Wisconsin\/Minnesota area the week leading up to the Grand Prix of Road America look out for an exciting event happening with Morrie\u2019s Mazda.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Up next are three races in Indianapolis! Two at the IMS road course and one at Lucas Oil Raceway. I can\u2019t wait to get going with the month of May all leading up to the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so thankful to be able to continue to pursue my career in racing thanks to Rice Lake Weighing Systems, Rising Star Racing, Morrie\u2019s Mazda, Fred Thomas Resort, Thomas Marine, Team USA Scholarship, Styled Aesthetic, my parents and all of you!<\/p>\n

You guys rock,
\nAaron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BIRCHWOOD, Wis. \u2013 Welcome back everyone! I\u2019m super glad to have a bit of free time to write up a review of what I\u2019ve been up to since the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. I\u2019m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teamusascholarship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}