For those who aren’t familiar, Andy Lee holds down a few dream jobs – he is a Pirelli World Challenge driver for BestIT Racing, and an instructor at the Bondurant school. In 2012, he earned Rookie of the Year honors and second place overall in the GTS Championship.

In this video he takes us inside the cockpit of his new Z/28 Camaro and shows a few of the car’s features, like the removable steering wheel, electrical control panel (which includes a dial for adjusting the aggressiveness of the antilock braking system’s intervention), and the pedal box. As you’d expect for a dedicated race car, there are very few creature comforts, though there is a driver cooling system that can be used in hot environments to circulate chilled water through a vest under the driver’s fire suit, as well as a system to cool his helmet.

It’s also interesting to see the contrast between “high tech” and “jury rigged” – there’s the AIM digital dash, which Lee jokingly describes as a “flat screen TV,” and then there’s the shifter, which appears to be a Hurst handle bolted to a piece of rusty scrap steel that’s welded to the shaft protruding from the transmission tunnel.

You can catch Lee and the rest of the BestIT team in competition this weekend at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, via the World Challenge TV website.