yeah clearly i have never been to a track, nor do i know anything about racing.

 

It's like any other series. If your accepted to run with a team unless it's a 100% free AND paid ride (which almost NO drivers in any series are this yr other than F1 & nascar) you pay them team, entry fees, tires all expenses after you get the estimated budget. You get sponsors to give you that money to your LLC which you just pay your team.

 

Everything looks rusted from lack of driving?
Painted your Brembos purple?


j/k

 

damn! you busted me.

that's actually not even my evo. i sneak in to parking lots when no one is around and remove the wheels off other peoples cars to photograph their calipers.

i'm the worst peeping tom ever.

 

Was going to say seems like about every EVO in this area is being worked on so it looked legit.

 

Gave her the ring August 12th last year.

Getting married Oct 1st 2011.

Not getting married till we moved back to PA, and couldnt move back to Pa till she got her masters.

Weddings are not cheap, finding that out fast!!!!

 

Boy am I glad brake color and track time are not the sole measure of a man. I am almost embarassed of my shiny red calipers with white lettering and almost totally rust free rotors

 

The problem with the tdi cup is that it was open to just about anyone that was 18-24 years old. You then had to come up with a huge sum of money to try out. (yes you got it back if you didn't make it but, what 18-24 has that kinda money laying around. And you can't really get sponsers to try out typically. Then it was the same amount to enter the series. That you hopefully had paid for by sponser! Plus, travel, hotel etc out of pocket.

The difference between real pro drivers is that they have a racing background to disply to their sponsers and not 1 year of karting and a driver school or two. They have actually come up thru the ranks and earned spots.

Now that being said. It's a fine series if you can afford to take the fast track. They teach you slot and you get a chance to start a career. The rest is up to you! Dosnt mean that most of the folks that race end up with more then some good storys tho.

And finally. Racing cars is a rich mans sport. Always was and always will be. Just the way it is.

 

i will say that i enjoyed every darker shade very much.

 

Now i will add that it's kinda like college. You pay s ton of $ and you either, do well and use what you learn or you party and don't learn **** and end up doing nothing.

 

Sadly I'll never make it to the weekend warrior status.

 

Interesting.

So here is the stupid question. Why the run around Eric? Just say you had the money from who cares where to drop 50-70 grand and go racing for a year.
There isn't any shame in it. So really for you it's an expensive hobby. That's cool and all. Some people are lucky enough not to have to work in the traditional sense.

I don't get why you'd want us to think otherwise? There are plenty of gold collar kids with EVO's that don't do this. Even out here in western PA. You're really only fooling yourself and making yourself look bad.

 

And this just pisses everyone off and makes you look like a spoiled brat. Every person who posts have been on a track of one form or another. 5 people my butt Your hobby is not so exclusive.

Try racing yachts or horses if you want to be exclusive.

 

I prefer racing to the bathroom. There's no room for 2nd place in that sport.

 

oh please, that's not exclusive.

you want exclusive try racing falcons around a course composed entirely of ming dynasty vases.

that's ascot and monocle wearing exclusive.