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Old 03-16-2007, 02:57 PM
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Default If someone was really serious about building a pro career, here is a place to start.

http://www.skipbarber.com/news/artic...articleID=1704

Of course if someone is going to skip all the lower rungs on the pro career ladder and start right at the top, it may not be necessary
Old 03-16-2007, 03:16 PM
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That is great. I'd love to play with some MX-5 Cup cars. I wonder how much they worry about bumping and nudging since it so common with those cars.

I'd be all over that if I had the money.
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good looking out. i've already got time attack commitment on april 28/29 weekend. the 2nd one @ road america is right after a honda cup race. i dunno if i can lined up a flight to get there on time. hmm!
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Originally Posted by GhettoRacer
good looking out. i've already got time attack commitment on april 28/29 weekend. the 2nd one @ road america is right after a honda cup race. i dunno if i can lined up a flight to get there on time. hmm!
And then there's the issue of the $4000 you'd need to enter.
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right. are you gonna be there pimp daddy?
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Originally Posted by GhettoRacer
right. are you gonna be there pimp daddy?
Why would I be there?
Old 03-17-2007, 01:02 PM
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If I could afford Skippy, or even Jim Russell, I'd gladly go. There's a Skip Barber school here in California at Laguna Seca, and there's a Jim Russell school at Sears Point. One of these days I'll go. Surely it will make a huge difference in my performance. I've been wanting to go to a school like that for years. Donations?
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Originally Posted by Bryan Watts
Why would I be there?
I thought you wanted to be a pro?
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I'm pretty sure Bryan would just go get a ride in the series for a couple thousand more.
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Originally Posted by GhettoRacer
I thought you wanted to be a pro?
I've raced in 3 different Pro series at this point (though I'd hardly consider myself anything approaching a Pro...I'm a wannabe club racer), including the Pro Miata series...the racing school is for someone without any racing experience to learn the basics of race craft. I attended the Panoz racing school 6 years ago when I started racing so that I could fast track my SCCA National license. Learned a lot from Johnny O'Connell down at Road Atlanta when he was driving for Panoz...easily one of the greatest guys in American sports car racing. Sorry, I don't have any pictures of me standing beside him in a Ferrari driving suit with my arm around his shoulder.
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I see. So you're too good for the lowly girly Miata's... Your talent and connections is so deep that you don't need to make yourself better known.
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Dung The Liar Boy, you are becoming weaker and weaker, with more people owning you every day. We will need to form the Dung The Liar Boy Time-share Ownership Agreement soon!
Old 03-17-2007, 11:23 PM
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broken record dude, can you play something new?
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Originally Posted by GhettoRacer
broken record dude, can you play something new?
Now you are using my lines here too...thank you for the continuing compliment!

If you would stop your pathological lying...as was again shown by the young lady who called your last lie out to us all....maybe our tune would change too. Do you really have ANY grasp of the truth Dung The Liar Boy? Why did you run from her question on the thread where she caught you in your LIAR MODE about NASA????? Ignore it and it will go away maybe? Don't think so you F'ng pathetic LIAR SCUM BAG !

Oh wait, that is redundant...I could have just said FRANK LIN and gotten the same point across (there is another Google hit for you Dung, when the "sponsors" look you up)
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Ehh? which thread, I don't have time to read everything here.


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