Application for Hey Wait for Me Racing Team
02-25-2007, 01:45 PM
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Your concern for the chi of the Team is noted (I always thought Mike in Chi meant Mike in Chicago; I am such a newb).
You should not be concerned; there is about as much chance of me elevating the average competance level of this Team as there is of me getting a point by.
My lack of spins is a result of an excess of caution and of good luck; oil or antifreeze on the track was always detected by cars in front of me (for proof, see picture at left).
I did spin once in the dry; it was my instructor's fault.
PS: can I buy your vote by sending over some brake cleaner?
You should not be concerned; there is about as much chance of me elevating the average competance level of this Team as there is of me getting a point by.
My lack of spins is a result of an excess of caution and of good luck; oil or antifreeze on the track was always detected by cars in front of me (for proof, see picture at left).
I did spin once in the dry; it was my instructor's fault.
PS: can I buy your vote by sending over some brake cleaner?
02-25-2007, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveM993
OK here’s the deal. I am one of the newbies to the team. Means I get to clean brake dust off other team member wheels. I think I managed to convince the HWFMR Gods to let me in because I managed to spin in my first turn of my first track event…I guess I was looked at as one “with lots ‘o potential”…but I know my place.
So now we have someone who has not spun on dry pavement in 10 years. (My personal belief that this is where you may have err’d in your application). But since I am not on the membership committee I don’t have a lot of pull here. Getting you on the team would move me up one notch in seniority…so I am pulling for you. But you are either very cautious…or…very good…or both. The very good part just won’t do…and my understanding is that the HWMFR chi implodes if somebody on the team actually demonstrates competence (actually intended competence…)…not all podium finishes are intended I realize.
So let’s assume you are really cautious? It means you either know, or don’t want to know the limits of your car…but then there is this dashboard, telling you how to drive, keeping your butt in the limits, AIM ‘puter thing…disclosure error #2. So you might not be as cautious as we think…hence you therefore might actually be good.
So now we have someone who has not spun on dry pavement in 10 years. (My personal belief that this is where you may have err’d in your application). But since I am not on the membership committee I don’t have a lot of pull here. Getting you on the team would move me up one notch in seniority…so I am pulling for you. But you are either very cautious…or…very good…or both. The very good part just won’t do…and my understanding is that the HWMFR chi implodes if somebody on the team actually demonstrates competence (actually intended competence…)…not all podium finishes are intended I realize.
So let’s assume you are really cautious? It means you either know, or don’t want to know the limits of your car…but then there is this dashboard, telling you how to drive, keeping your butt in the limits, AIM ‘puter thing…disclosure error #2. So you might not be as cautious as we think…hence you therefore might actually be good.
02-25-2007, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
Your concern for the chi of the Team is noted (I always thought Mike in Chi meant Mike in Chicago; I am such a newb).
Anyway, I think we should let him off the hook for that AIM thing. He pointed out that it came with the car, but maybe he doesn't use it much. Our cars came with accelerators, and there is little evidence of them being used very much!
02-25-2007, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Bull
I ask the Big Turtle....ever had a guy in the Turtle Pond with some kind of special dashboard gizmo, spending time looking for data, etc???? All I ever worried about regarding my dashboard when i tracked my 993 was making certain Jimi Hendrix was in the CD player before I left the paddock!
As to your CD player, I thought you were still listening to 8-tracks...
02-25-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rcwelch
Maybe a picture of the old SLOW car and lap times would help...and as Bull suggested I could be swayed by pictures of you with babes at the track, showing you are really NOT interested in going fast.
Of course not.
Their hot babes are all back at the motel room, conserving their energy.
02-25-2007, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
'Those that can, do; those that can't, instruct' (just kidding; please understand I am desperate here. You guys are way better at this than I expected).
Originally Posted by RickBetterley
You guys are way better at this than I expected.
02-25-2007, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
The hot babe is my wife;
Laptimes - if I posted them it might crash John D's servers, so we can't do that.
I am just as slow in the new car as I was in the old car; must be the driver.
Laptimes - if I posted them it might crash John D's servers, so we can't do that.
I am just as slow in the new car as I was in the old car; must be the driver.
Originally Posted by RickBetterley
Laptimes - if I posted them it might crash John D's servers, so we can't do that.
02-25-2007, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Bull
Moi? What did "they" tell you..."don't expect everyone to be as nice and helpful as Bull"?????
02-25-2007, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveM993
I am one of the newbies to the team. Means I get to clean brake dust off other team member wheels. I think I managed to convince the HWFMR Gods to let me in because I managed to spin in my first turn of my first track event…I guess I was looked at as one “with lots ‘o potential”…but I know my place.
A feat which I doubt will ever be equalled and now part of HWFMR Lore
(By the way Dave, my Forgelines are looking awfully dirty...)
Originally Posted by DaveM993
So let’s assume you are really cautious? It means you either know, or don’t want to know the limits of your car…but then there is this dashboard, telling you how to drive, keeping your butt in the limits, AIM ‘puter thing…disclosure error #2. So you might not be as cautious as we think…hence you therefore might actually be good.
I think I understand that? Did Frankie write it for you?
02-25-2007, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
Your concern for the chi of the Team is noted (I always thought Mike in Chi meant Mike in Chicago; I am such a newb).
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Actually it Mike in the second to last letter of the Greek alphabet
Originally Posted by RickBetterley
You should not be concerned; there is about as much chance of me elevating the average competance level of this Team as there is of me getting a point by.
My lack of spins is a result of an excess of caution and of good luck; oil or antifreeze on the track was always detected by cars in front of me (for proof, see picture at left).
I did spin once in the dry; it was my instructor's fault.
My lack of spins is a result of an excess of caution and of good luck; oil or antifreeze on the track was always detected by cars in front of me (for proof, see picture at left).
I did spin once in the dry; it was my instructor's fault.
Originally Posted by RickBetterley
PS: can I buy your vote by sending over some brake cleaner?
02-25-2007, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Bull
Why would a guy in Wyoming use Chicago????? Have you never heard of his son from Bangkok, Tai Chi?
Originally Posted by Bull
Anyway, I think we should let him off the hook for that AIM thing. He pointed out that it came with the car, but maybe he doesn't use it much. Our cars came with accelerators, and there is little evidence of them being used very much!
02-25-2007, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by RickBetterley
'Those that can, do; those that can't, instruct'
Rick raises a very good argument for his inclusion with this point.