Bryan Watts

What the heck are you talking about? Who said anything about Miata's being too lowly? I've got a Spec Miata sitting outside in my garage. Not only do you type poorly, but I think your reading comprehension is lacking as well.

I'm just stating that since I actually have race experience, I don't need to attend a racing school. For someone like yourself who is trying to get started in racing, it would make some sense.

Bryan Watts

I'll make it easy for you:

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...0&page=5&pp=15

Bonster

The thread where, which, you claimed working for NASA. I was asked by Jerry not to repeat it, and you best not do the same, either, Frank. Jerry will be upset at me for all of a few minutes if I repeat the real story. I know about the 'deal' you struck with NASA. I recommend that you stop making claims about NASA. Jerry is a close (like family) friend of mine. Nothing personal, but I will NOT .. . absolutely will NOT let you smear his name or the company he worked so hard to produce. DON'T try me here Frank. And you KNOW what I'm talking about. Please don't force me to go back on a promise with one of my best friends only to defend him. Let's lay off the supposed NASA connection. Don't do that to Jerry. And don't do that to me. Just let it go . . .

Bonster

A Spec Miata is only 'girly' or 'lowly' if you can't figure out how to DRIVE it.

cooleyjb

WOW... Part of me wants to see Bonni get really pissed and spill the beans on Frankie.

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I'd love to have a spec miata right now. I'd consider time attack much more girly than anything spec miata I've seen.

Bull

Dung The Liar Boy now decides to play all confused (not a tuff concept for him to grasp) about just which thread he was caught in at his usual pathological liar crap. He says "I don't have time to read everything here", yet he replies to EVERY post even remotely directed to him....EXCEPT the one where he is caught and outed by a person who has the facts. Just another Dung Pile produced by Dung The Liar Boy!

Bonster

Yeah, SM is far from girly. I think as a group the SM class is one of the craziest and most competitive groups out there. Then again, when you're at Laguna Seca among 72 (yes, they went over their own maximum limit -- something about money and someone's kid going to college) other cars, you kind of have to be competitive. The first lap I watched at least six cars that I can recal go off, two of which went back paddock. A year and a half ago, a good pal of mine literally got pin-balled in his first lap at the same track at the double regionals (SCCA). SM just isn't a place where you can make a lot of mistakes. You really gotta watch your back (and your sides, your front, the dirt, the wall, lol). And that's just regional racing.

NASA, however, for some reason draws less SMers, so the field is a little easier. However, they mix us in with the Honda Challenge folks, sometimes what would be the equivalent of ITA cars, and for a while there the Legends cars were out with us, as well. Heck, I remember one race where they had the CMC cars out with us! I remember buying a picture from Head-On Photos (Norm Cabana) and bringing it up to timing and scoring to Jerry. In this picture was a Camaro SS right on my rear bumper, dwarfing my little SM. You're not allowed to talk, at least not loudly, if you're up there in the timing and scoring room. I threw the photo on his desk and tapped my foot, hands on hips. He just started snickering at me. Grrrr.

Bull

You don't think that "tapped my foot, hands on hips" actually works, do you?
I usually say something like "the beat is familiar, but i can't name the song", which adss the steam coming from the ears look most times.

SundayDriver

And this is exactly why Francis neither gets nor deserves any respect. Bryan gave him a calm and respectful response to get this reply. Francis, you have no idea how to treat anyone with any degree of respect, even when they show you some. You are, without a doubt, the biggest PUTZ I have ever encountered in my very long and ancient life. You clearly do not deserve the one square foot of this earth that you occupy.

And yes, I took him off ignore for a while to see what he actually said in response to a respectful reply to his post.

Bull

We must admit that Dung Pile has achieved pro status in one area...Professional Liar!

Bonster

I didn't see anything in Bryan's post that indicated he felt that Miatas were some kind of sub-standard racecar, either. Why Frank presumed Bryan felt that way excapes me. Justin Hall is a pro driver, but (among other things) he is still an SM racer. In fact, he owns one of California's largest SM rental companies, with cars that tend to boast some of our region's fastest lap times.

No, Bob, I didn't figure my tapping foot would bring about some kind of satisfaction from Jerry other than I knew it would make him laugh. The T & S ***** don't want any conversation to occur except for discussion about the races, so I had to use some form of "sign language."

Jerry knows that I get nervous when large vehicles are behind me from when I took him to lunch over near his home in Richmond. I had this big truck behind me following too close and I was visibly nervous, especially since I had a passenger. I started grumbling and cursing about it, much to Jerry's amusement. He said something like, "I don't mind seeing a little carnage every now and again." Once I took him on a twisty fun run (which Terese was very pleased about, as Jerry never leaves the office sometimes), and he asked why I was not going very fast. I said something about not wanting to wreck with a passenger or worse -- get into a rollover. He came back and said, "Hey, I like a good rollover. I wouldn't mind if you rolled this thing." I'm NOT kidding, that's what he said. This from a guy who is . . . err . . a little experienced in rollovers. Sometimes that guy scares me! So that's why he knew how I felt having a Camaro that close to me, and why he just snickered at me. I almost got thrown out of T & S for laughing once. Whoops.

Bull

I was laughing too when I repied, Ms. Toe Tapper. And this Jerry sounds like a perfectly normal person to me......

Bonster

Yeah, Jerry is a lot of fun, I think you'd all like him. He always buys the booze, too.

Bull

Now he sounds like a perfect kind of guy!