Veloce Raptor

'Nuff said.

GhettoRacer

The members of this forum has gone out of their ways to interfere in the past (harass Julia for example). I will post results/write ups as the events occur regardless of finishing position. I was suppose to go home to race Honda Challenge this weekend but I decided to stay in Japan to watch the Round 1 of Super GT/JGTC race @ Suzuka on March 16/17/18... Honda Challenge and Honda Cup are just club racing... so they are not terribly important to me.

Veloce Raptor

Now I have seen it all. Francis gets a restraining order slapped on him by Julia, and WE are HARASSING her?

Bwhahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

Methinks Francis should stay in the Land of the Gaijin Haters, lest he be arrested by US immigration...

Bull

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Bryan Watts

Ha...considering your experience, which is just a tab above ZERO, this comment is insanely comical. You've run what, 1 or 2 club races and totaled two cars in the process and you're now done with club racing and ready to move on? I've read it all now.

A) You're driving sucks, so I seriously doubt your ability to turn a fast lap.

B) Even if you can turn a fast lap, you know absolutely nothing about racecraft and actually racing.

Let me know how it turns out. I expect you'll be winning FIA GT races by the end of the year.

Veloce Raptor

LMFAO

Bull

I'm certain that in his Theater of The Mind he has already won a few FIA GT races!

Jim Child

How could they not be important to you? Are you planning to turn pro with no W2W experience? Even if that were possible (licensing requirements) do you seriously think that's a prescription for success? If you manage to get into a pro race with no W2W experience you'll be eaten alive!! Can you even show me one driver who went on directly from DE to become a successful paid pro driver? No? That's because there aren't any. Believe me, if pro racing is your goal, then club racing should be important to you.

Bonster

I have to agree . . . it is a REQUIREMENT in at least the SCCA Pro Racing series that you complete one season at the regional level. I know . . . recall, I raced in the Pro Racing series. And yes, you WILL be eaten alive, even if you're a superior driver (which admittedly, I'm not -- I'm good, but not THAT good). When you run against guys like Randy Pobst, Ed Zabinsky, Justin Hall, etc., you are running against serious competition. And if you make mistakes around those guys, your career could very well be shot down in one little 45-minute race.

BW

GhettoRacer

I'm still going to go through club racing this year. By not important, I just mean it isn't important to me personally to attend every club event. So for example, to me the chance to attend Japan's top level racing - the Super GT/JGTC (these are million dollar race cars, highly engineered production cars... maybe even more so than DTM, or at least it is similar) is more important than club racing back home. that's why I'm staying here until March 22nd.

Bryan Watts

And now we see your level of "commitment". A real racer would be at home racing rather than watching a race that he could catch on TV...especially one who has no experience and a goal to be Pro racing by the end of the season. I hate attending races as a spectator anymore. I've been out there racing in front of the crowds, so going to watch a race just serves to annoy the hell out of me that I don't have the funds to be out there.

Keep talking...the more you talk, the more transparent you become (which is hard, considering you as opaque as the lexan in my race car already).

GhettoRacer

How long have you been racing son? And how many events? I'm moving to Japanese next year to race. I'm setting things up. It seems like you have no clue about long term planning.

Bryan Watts

6 years, at various levels...SCCA Club/National/Pro, Star Mazda, BMW CCA CR, NASA. I did my first DE in 1998 and my first race in 2000. Qualified on pole of my first Pro event in 2002, 2 years to the month after my first club race. No one is throwing rides at me, so they sure aren't going to be offering you anything. You've had 10 years to get your crap together and you're still running DE's claiming to be just one step away from being a career race car driver.

You're moving to a language? You're setting up a ride in JGTC based on what? Driving student cars at DE's? It's been a REALLY long term of planning if you've been wanting to race for 10+ years and you still haven't gotten around to it.

GhettoRacer

No son, I've been practicing for 12 years. The only reason I don't race is not lack of talent, but lack of money. I instruct so I can go to tons of practices for free. But like many have said, there is still some difference between DE and w2w...

One of the things that happen in the past was that, lot of ppl hated me because I got sponsors even tough I was doing only DE. They often club race for 1 year or 2 and then they are done because they did not think it through. Sponsorship is all about THEM not you. It's about ROI. Start thinking like that, maybe you will get somewhere. There are PLENTY of racers with decent talents. To me, road racing is easy ****, esp. production car based. Anybody who is willing to put down the effort and train hard can achieve great skills. But not everybody can be as marketable as me....

cooleyjb

This is some of teh funniest crap I've read.