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[Fabman]

Just to be certain...........Frankinstang is a menace that many will not be missing in their rear view mirrors any time soon!!!!!!!!!!

While I have been sitting out my biggest competition (in SCCA) spent a mint on his beemer and its about 5 or 6 seconds a lap faster than it was....
....meanwhile I am just trying to get back on track and not be any slower than I was.....I may be the one in HIS mirror now.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Its a crazy world we live in! Same thing is happening in my home town of Vancouver... A small shack that has been condemned, goes for a million loonies, just for the lot of land. I remember in the 70s when the mail man had a new house twice as big. Not a chance now.

 

[Mad Hatter]

While I have been sitting out my biggest competition (in SCCA) spent a mint on his beemer and its about 5 or 6 seconds a lap faster than it was....
....meanwhile I am just trying to get back on track and not be any slower than I was.....I may be the one in HIS mirror now.

Naa... nothing you can't handle!

 

[Fabman]

Naa... nothing you can't handle!

I appreciate your optimism.

 

[dragoon]

While I have been sitting out my biggest competition (in SCCA) spent a mint on his beemer and its about 5 or 6 seconds a lap faster than it was....
....meanwhile I am just trying to get back on track and not be any slower than I was.....I may be the one in HIS mirror now.

Not your style for sure on being in anyone’s mirror Sal !!

 

[Fabman]

Not your style for sure on being in anyone’s mirror Sal !!

I haven't had to do much of it, lately or back in the day...somehow I always found my way to the front, but I am acutely aware that can flip at any moment.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Yes it can flip at any moment and I think my flip was about two plus years ago, or maybe 5 years ago and I just forgot, ha!

 

[Fabman]

Yes it can flip at any moment and I think my flip was about two plus years ago, or maybe 5 years ago and I just forgot, ha!

My biggest concern is becoming that guy that doesn't know when to get out of the car and he becomes an obstacle on track or worse, dangerous.
I don't ever want to be that guy.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

No worries my friend, you may just transition to doing related things like Time Trials and even Instructing with HPDEs. As one gets older and a bit less competitive that often makes you aware that just hanging around your fellow track rat buddies is alot more of the fun than you realized. Funny I get almost as much enjoyment getting a Third Place showing and scaring a bunch of young studs that they better pedal faster or they might get beaten by an old Geritol Geared, ha!

 

[EF1]

My biggest concern is becoming that guy that doesn't know when to get out of the car and he becomes an obstacle on track or worse, dangerous.
I don't ever want to be that guy.

Your not there yet.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Closer than I would like , but I am about 8 years your Senior, so you are one of those young guys I try to stay ahead of , ha.
That would never happen in your case Super Sal, I would be thrilled if I could just be second behind you , anytime!!

 

[Fabman]

No worries my friend, you may just transition to doing related things like Time Trials and even Instructing with HPDEs. As one gets older and a bit less competitive that often makes you aware that just hanging around your fellow track rat buddies is alot more of the fun than you realized. Funny I get almost as much enjoyment getting a Third Place showing and scaring a bunch of young studs that they better pedal faster or they might get beaten by an old Geritol Geared, ha!

I thought about instructing, I used to teach oval track back in the day, but road racing?
I'm sure I probably do everything wrong and I don't want to pass on bad habits.

 

[Fabman]

Closer than I would like , but I am about 8 years your Senior, so you are one of those young guys I try to stay ahead of , ha.
That would never happen in your case Super Sal, I would be thrilled if I could just be second behind you , anytime!!

I have always been fast, but not always the fastest....there are those guys who can put down amazing qualifying laps but get them in a crowd and they go straight to the back of the pack.
There's qualifying and then there's racing....some are better at one than the other. I have always been able to beat faster cars with bigger budgets and lighter cars/more HP.
This is why I'd be no good at TT. I was born to do battle, and I got lots of practice on the ovals.

 

[EF1]

I thought about instructing, I used to teach oval track back in the day, but road racing?
I'm sure I probably do everything wrong and I don't want to pass on bad habits.

If winning races is passing on bad habits school me

 

[Fabman]

If winning races is passing on bad habits school me

Racing coach is a different thing....that I can do. But the track day newby coaching thing that I would likely have available to me is something else altogether.
For years I coached almost every champ in every class at my local roundy round......I was pretty good at that.

 

[dragoon]

Racing coach is a different thing....that I can do. But the track day newby coaching thing that I would likely have available to me is something else altogether.
For years I coached almost every champ in every class at my local roundy round......I was pretty good at that.

You’re welcome any time in my passenger/instructor seat any time Sal if our paths ever cross. We might trade some shop stories also !!