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PaddyPrix
If breakin' parts is cool, consider me Miles Davis
Greetings and a well-belated but still Happy New Year to you as well, curious reader.Happy new year ! Any updates on the build ?
TL;DR: Nah, cage painted.
Like everyone else, money is tight which has the car sitting for longer than I'd like it to. We've all heard some variation of "the best way to win a million racing... is to start with 10 [million]", and since I wasn't born to wealthy parents, possess beautiful honkers for TikTok dances, or in a racing-related business where I'm gathering potential customers, it's harder to justify when execs (with no qualms about AI driving your car into oncoming traffic) are laying your types off in record numbers for their stock buybacks and shareholders by gutting SG&A. Politics aside, that sucks and I'm sure we can all agree on that. I had also almost entirely paid for the Stripper with well-timed AMC and GME options, and with Bitcoin halving coming up in just 69 days, things should get interesting in many altcoin markets.
The passion and want is still there, and spent last season instructing pro bono publico and cheering on my friends, something I happily look forward to once again for this season. I was talking to a friend the other week who suggested that I just toss my old stuff in and go back out and have fun, but that's honestly just about the last thing I would do, especially when you take a look at some of those deep pockets there are in a pretty loaded national field. I have done a bunch of research behind the scenes and (s)talked to a bunch of customers/users to figure out something that should be pretty competitive, and best of all cheap... comparatively speaking. I had a blast building the last one, and when things get going, I promise to do a much better job documenting it as I go, reasoning and outcomes, good and bad that come out from it, and maybe share a bunch of the data that most others hold so near and dear.