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Old 09-29-2009, 12:41 PM
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1) You have to buy a whole tow rig for a dedicated track car in which you can't win.
2) When it rains, you have to put your windows down!
3) On your day off, you still have to get up early and go to class.
4) Your car requires more maintenance and attention than a super model girlfriend.
5) You get terrible gas mileage.
6) It's hard to tell stories about passing Mario Andretti when you're wearing a green wrist band.
7) There's always someone better than you.
8) There's no grid girls!
9) It leads to higher forms of addiction, like racing.
10) The season isn't long enough!
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Maybe you should consider golf........
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But it is cool to tell Mario stories about going hard at it with one of his old (albeit one of the worst) F1 cars on an open test day, and how I was imagining it was 30 years earlier and I was chasing him down. (He was at his winery over the weekend, and we had a little tour up there.)
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Originally Posted by BostonDMD
Maybe you should consider golf........
Men with golf *****...golf.

Men with real *****...race.
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Originally Posted by DaveM993
Men with golf *****...golf.

Men with real *****...race.
Ha! I have that on the back of a T-shirt.
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Originally Posted by StoogeMoe
1) You have to buy a whole tow rig for a dedicated track car in which you can't win.
2) When it rains, you have to put your windows down!
3) On your day off, you still have to get up early and go to class.
4) Your car requires more maintenance and attention than a super model girlfriend.
5) You get terrible gas mileage.
6) It's hard to tell stories about passing Mario Andretti when you're wearing a green wrist band.
7) There's always someone better than you.
8) There's no grid girls!
9) It leads to higher forms of addiction, like racing.
10) The season isn't long enough!


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Whats "golf"?
Oh you mean that walk in the park in funny clothes where you hit a ball, then try to find it?
Like Mr. Carlin said, "pick the thing up and go home, You're lucky you found it in the first place?"

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Old 09-29-2009, 02:12 PM
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Like Mr. Carlin said, "pick the thing up and go home, Your lucky you found it in the first place?"
Of course driving in circles doesn't make much more sense.
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Originally Posted by StoogeMoe
1) You have to buy a whole tow rig for a dedicated track car in which you can't win.
2) When it rains, you have to put your windows down!
3) On your day off, you still have to get up early and go to class.
4) Your car requires more maintenance and attention than a super model girlfriend.
5) You get terrible gas mileage.
6) It's hard to tell stories about passing Mario Andretti when you're wearing a green wrist band.
7) There's always someone better than you.
8) There's no grid girls!
9) It leads to higher forms of addiction, like racing.
10) The season isn't long enough!
This is why I race.

Really the thing I hate most about DE is not being able to pass any place on the track at any time. In a low hp car I can't pass on the straights.

Plus my signature pic could never happen in DE. Imagine 5 wide in DE in braking zone and then 2 or 3 wide all the way around the corner.
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Originally Posted by M758
Really the thing I hate most about DE is not being able to pass any place on the track at any time.
+Idiots that won't give you a pass after riding their tail for 2+ laps..
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Originally Posted by Geoffrey
Of course driving in circles doesn't make much more sense.
Or when your working on your car in the garage and your neighbor asks how much a set of race tires cost followed by how many miles do you get out of them? The look on their face when you tell them "how many laps" you get out of a set...priceless...
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So very good points... I still enjoy DEs tremendously, but to make it interesting we should have DE Championships!!! The champion should be selected per Zone based on how many track miles they complete without passing any cars and the number of points bys they give throughout the season.

Also, for general rules, we should state that participants should only use one set of tire, brake pads and car for the whole season; otherwise the penalty would be 10 places setback in the championship points.
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Originally Posted by Acropora
+Idiots that won't give you a pass after riding their tail for 2+ laps..
... after they've received the blue flag. And then tell you "Well, it's not a race."
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Originally Posted by StoogeMoe
1) You have to buy a whole tow rig for a dedicated track car in which you can't win.
2) When it rains, you have to put your windows down!
3) On your day off, you still have to get up early and go to class.
4) Your car requires more maintenance and attention than a super model girlfriend.
5) You get terrible gas mileage.
6) It's hard to tell stories about passing Mario Andretti when you're wearing a green wrist band.
7) There's always someone better than you.
8) There's no grid girls!
9) It leads to higher forms of addiction, like racing.
10) The season isn't long enough!
Fix number 8 and nothing else matters. Tell the regions to PONY UP!

HELLA YEAH!!!
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Originally Posted by CCA
... after they've received the blue flag. And then tell you "Well, it's not a race."
Awww come on that's not my favorite excuse.

The best excuse is "But, I was pulling away from you on the straights!"


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