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We are The Sauce Spot:
Created by Daniel Affatato in 2012 after many years of being a fan, bracket racer, and enthusiast of the Motorsports community. The idea behind the term Sauce comes from years of using "SAUCE" to explain "putting my twist on things"
Everyone is unique and different, we all have our own style and opinions. Raised in an Italian home my mother always made Sauce on Sunday- whi

le at the track on event weekends, I may miss this at time. (sometimes Saturdays depending on the event)
I hope you enjoy the Sauce I serve up in the form of photographs and videos! Send us a message - we would love to work with you!

03/26/2025

👫For the first time ever- we are going to see a married couple complete against each other at Pan Am!! 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨Are you or for this battle at Pan American Nationals!? Would you put your wife on the trailer or let her get that W?!

03/17/2025

Aaron Lopez puts down a 7.50 pass in his H series AWD Honda!

03/16/2025

Wasabi Supra - White Rice clicking off a 6.08 at 235mph is just insane!

RT- 0.042
60-1.025
330 - 2.690
Mid Speed 188.86
660 - 4.006
1000-5.131
Speed- 235.57
ET- 6.081

This is just beautiful! 💜BIG MACK!!!😈☔️🚀🇦🇺RB30 Skyline GTR Pro ImportMorad Mahmoud & Mack34 Racing new beast is a full P...
03/08/2025

This is just beautiful! 💜

BIG MACK!!!😈☔️🚀🇦🇺

RB30 Skyline GTR Pro Import

Morad Mahmoud & Mack34 Racing new beast is a full PMS build with the latest & greatest technology in the market powered by a Maatouks Racing spec Bullet Engineering billet RB30 engine with all the Platinum Racing Products gadgets, Boosted by a Precision Turbo & Engine 110mm and all controlled by a Motec Systems USA M150 ecu with a Tuned By Shane T/Abraham Alba custom ProImport firmware. The beautiful air brush work by Armando Design!

The car is headed to US soil to finalize the wiring hit the hub dyno and some testing at Bradenton Motorsports Park!!!

Stay tuned!👀🚀

Let’s have some fun- keep it fun, make it Saucey… 👉Tag two racers you want to see match up!Or if you are a racer- tag so...
03/06/2025

Let’s have some fun- keep it fun, make it Saucey…

👉Tag two racers you want to see match up!
Or if you are a racer- tag someone you want to race!

I look forward to seeing everyone at Revival!
Revival + Trash Talk Cash Nights!
📍
🗓️ March 21st-23rd
3/21/25 - 3/23/25
Mohnton, Pennsylvania

Pan American Nationals
📍
🗓️ July 10th-13th
7/10/25 - 7/13/25
Mohnton, Pennsylvania

👉All event info: CMRproductions.com

🫣Is this how we doing car shows now?! 🤯👤“Bro, I won’t have the car ready in time” 🗣️“Send it”  Photos:
02/11/2025

🫣Is this how we doing car shows now?! 🤯

👤“Bro, I won’t have the car ready in time”
🗣️“Send it”


Photos:

Glad to see the Grand National
02/10/2025

Glad to see the Grand National

This one won’t be easy, but I’m not here to just share the news- I hope to share a story. A story that I hope moves you ...
02/06/2025

This one won’t be easy, but I’m not here to just share the news- I hope to share a story. A story that I hope moves you all.
I hope the emotions carry over through my words- or the words I share from others.

We, the racing community- lost a very special person far too soon. A child. A piece of the future. A very precious little girl who just was loaded with spirit and passion- she had a glow.

Elienisse Zoe Diaz was born on January 30th 2018 into a die hard racing family in Tampa. She is the daughter of Sharryl Rodriguez and J Ruben Lopez Diaz - she has two older brothers and an older sister.
Her Grandfather, Wigo Diaz owns and races a very competitive Toyota Starlet- her Father owned an EG Honda Hatchback. And they raced every chance they could get!
Her sister Bryanna has become a very talented media member with great coverage of events.

They moved to Orlando Florida when she was an infant- Elienisse has been to so many racetracks and events in her Seven years of life. Atco dragway, Orlando Speedworld, Maple Grove Raceway, Salinas Speedway just to name a few. She had the fever!!

Her father’s car was named after her, you can see her name proudly represented across the front with her grandfathers team name on the front bumper. She had her own racing team shirts too! How cool is that!

I posted in 2021 about Wigo losing his wife to cancer - it was crushing news as she was so supportive of him and his racing. As was Elienisse, you can just see in all the photos how much she loved her grandfather and boy did he love her just as much. Thinking about Wigo’s pain right now just breaks my heart.

I have 4 nieces and I’m in tears just thinking about that pain. I have photos of my nieces wearing the same “boosted baby” toddler outfit that Sharryl shared of her baby Elienisse. It just hits home and I can’t imagine the pain this entire family is dealing with.

Elienisse just celebrated her 7th birthday this past Thursday. Her older sisters birthday is actually the day after hers. Her mom described her so passionately in this Facebook post; “🎉 It's 7🎉 Today the one who leads us turns 7, 7 years of adrenaline, racing at home, the farmer (loves cows 🤦🏻 ♀️ ) the hyper who everyone thinks is so quiet and calm and at home is our hurricane cat 30! The boss of her brothers. My little spark, today you are 7 years old, how time flies wow. God bless you always and give you health and life to enjoy and achieve all your dreams!! Happy birthday my darling we love you !!!!!!”

Elienisse spent her weekend at the track, a place she loved.

Last night Orlando Speed World posted;
“The power of prayer, the tightness of the racing community, the connection that ties all of us together - it is with all this we ask you to join the family of this sweet girl tonight at 9:00 PM for the strongest and largest prayer vigil possible.

A miracle is needed, and it is at this time we need to all come together spiritually and ask for him to place his healing hands on her and take her family in his arms.

There will be a gathering TONIGHT (02.04.2025) at 9:00 PM at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, Florida.

However, as we all know, God hears our prayers whether we are together or by ourselves in our own moments of silence. So please join us at 9:00 PM as we lift our prayers for this young girl as well as our brother and fellow OSW official, AK. “

Hundreds of people came out to support and pray together. You can find some of the live videos on their personal pages. It is very powerful.

Sharryl posted;
“My sweet angel ! Mommy will always love you for ever ! Mi fiebrua a las 10:54pm febrero 4 2025 el cielo gano un angel!”

Elienisse left us far too soon but her fever and passion will live on through all of us forever.

Orland Speed World post:
“We are deeply heartbroken by the tragic incident that took place at OSW on Sunday. Our thoughts and prayers are with Elienisse’s family, and all those affected, including our racing community. Motorsports is built on passion, but moments like these remind us of the risks that come with what we love. While injuries can heal, the pain of loss is immeasurable. We stand together in support, mourning, and prayer during this difficult time. We extend our deepest condolences to those grieving and will continue to uplift them in our thoughts.”

You can now see the entire racing community has posted of this tragedy. She is making her rounds touching everyone’s heart in some way, that is so powerful. This is still so painful for so many reasons. My heart breaks for her mother who describes her as her spark- her father who so proudly honored her by naming his car after her. Her grandfather who just can’t seem to catch a break.

I haven’t spoken to anyone besides Jeanny from Unik before writing this- I wrote this based off the photos shared, the years of posts I went back and read. I could just see the similarities from her family to mine and it hurts to think an entire family has to find a new way to live on without this precious soul. So I wanted to- or I hope this post can shine some light on this family, this magical little girl and the special opportunity we all have to wake up tomorrow and do what we love. Please do what you love and keep that little spark inside you as long as you can - for Elienisse.

My heart is with all of you right now.

Race In Paradise Elienisse

This one was tough to hear about this morning.Steven Rivera was a humble champion among us and the entire sport will mis...
01/31/2025

This one was tough to hear about this morning.

Steven Rivera was a humble champion among us and the entire sport will miss him greatly.

I spent many late nights at the track with Steven and his Lazy Boy Performance team at events. I was always welcomed with open arms - well let’s keep it real, I was met with a drink and some ho**ah! This is the Team to hang with! No sleep, good times… can’t ask for much more. He was that guy in the pits that helped everyone. I could almost gurantee to find Steven and Cauly in someone’s pit 2,3,4am- Anytime. A hard worker with an endless passion for racing. He was just different than most, very quiet but at the top of his game. Very genuine and honest and a deep passion for racing anything he could. He would do whatever was needed to get back out on the track. I can remember him coming to an event all rashed up from a bike accident, he was eager to drive, legit nothing was stopping this guy.
One of the first few to go sevens with the support of Import DPS, Rome and Abraham. We all watched this team grind at events and my heart breaks for them losing such an important person. My heart breaks for his family as I know they meant to the world to him too.

It is never easy, always hard to accept but we will remember and honor Steven Rivera forever.

His nickname- “TU PEOR PESADILLA” - “Your Worst Nightmare” stands true to his on track attitude. But off track, he was a pleasure to be around.

Race in Peace
Steven Rivera

Thank you for endlessly supporting The Sauce Spot along your journey. 🙏



Thoughts on the final sale price of these classic imports at Mecum Kissimmee? I am pretty impressed and love to see it -...
01/15/2025

Thoughts on the final sale price of these classic imports at Mecum Kissimmee?

I am pretty impressed and love to see it - that’s over 400k on 5 cars! Trying to think up how much each one was originally and how much value they each gained. Obviously each is unique with its own mileage and model - I’m pretty sure I remember seeing a CR edition S2000 sell for over 100k.

I also have to consider how damn hard it would be to just NOT DRIVE one of these and keep it safely stored! That CRX only has 326 miles. I think I put 500 miles on mine the first weekend I owned it!

I believe a handful more imports are lined up for the rest of this show. Definitely cool to see these cars most of us grew up in being valued and appreciated.


I feel like a song was written about this…. But Chevy was involved. Anyway - what do you think about this three some?   ...
12/24/2024

I feel like a song was written about this…. But Chevy was involved. Anyway - what do you think about this three some?

Just throwing some names together - comment with more
The Honda Skyline, Mitsubishi NSX, Nissan Integra Type R ?

Do you think Toyota is in the corner of the room just watching? Laughing as they remain the top dog with 10+million vehicles sold per year the last few years?!

A lot of satire here but generally curious on people’s thoughts and feelings towards this massive merger, it is a pretty big deal.


This is just nutty! On display at the Ticon booth at PRI
12/14/2024

This is just nutty!
On display at the Ticon booth at PRI

Twins on a V6 CRX at PRI - love all the attention to detail and one off items created for this car. I’m a huge CRX fan a...
12/13/2024

Twins on a V6 CRX at PRI - love all the attention to detail and one off items created for this car. I’m a huge CRX fan and all my years of coming to PRI - this might be the first time I’ve seen a CRX here! Love it !
On display at

PRI Indy
12/12/2024

PRI Indy

Feral said Hold That! Hi Boost FTW
11/03/2024

Feral said Hold That!
Hi Boost FTW

Fall Nationals TNT is underway!
10/11/2024

Fall Nationals TNT is underway!

Gates are open, the weather is excellent, let’s get this Fall Nationals weekend started here at  !
10/11/2024

Gates are open, the weather is excellent, let’s get this Fall Nationals weekend started here at !

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