Racing 2012

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I know some of you like racing like we (Val and I) do, so I thought I'd start a thread to follow this year's different series. Hopefully, a large number of y'all will join us in Austin in November for the inaugural Formula 1 race at the Circuit of the Americas, and this thread might help to keep all updated along the way. (If you're interested, check in with Val, as she's already getting everything scheduled)

Now, I'm no longer much of a NASCAR fan (when they adopted the "Car of Tomorrow" format with all of the cars being identical, NASCAR became, in my opinion, a weekly IROC series.) That being said, I do like most any other type of racing, and one of the best series out there today kicks off its season this weekend at the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona

Rolex 24 At Daytona - Daytona International Speedway.

GRAND-AM Road Racing - Official Web Site

NOTE: Many of you know Will Pace (owner of Circle 7 in Madison) and his brother, a friend of mine at MSU, is racing the #50 Predator Racing BMW Riley prototype in this year's race (See below). Jim (a former overall Daytona 24 winner) is driving with Elliot Forbes-Robinson (a former 2-time overall Daytona 24 winner) and, of all people, Brian Johnson (lead singer for AC/DC)......sorta makes the races more interesting when you can follow a specific driver.

Anyway, just wanted to get a thread kicked off for this year's season.......................

Predator P-car 2012 Daytona.webp
 
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I would love to go to the F1 race in Austin this year.

On another note is anyone going to the Talladega May Nascar race? 4 of us La Land Krewesers are headed up in a rv to watch racing and party for a couple days.
 
71-CRUISER said:
Welcome to SpecE30
NASA :: South East Region

Season starts next weekend...
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That's cool. First I've heard of that series or that "sanctioning body."

Wish we had some decent tracks around here. Otherwise, Bomar and I might have to start a cheap racing division of CLC using this cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeap "racecar" format:

Winding Road | Miata Challenge Project: Chapter One

Winding Road | Miata Challenge Project: Chapter 2

What about it, JBo? CHEAP, reliable, and virtually disposable!
 
There are a few really good deals on peeped spece30s w spares in the southeast right now. 10k ready to race, check the spece30 classifieds.
 
Bomar said:
Would rather walk before owning another BMW...e30 best looking model
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I tend to agree with JBo. I prefer to work on cars because I want to, not because I have to.........
 
Incredible statistics:

May 8 (GMM) Michael Schumacher is closing in on first place to become the world's richest sportsman.

According to the Sunday Times' annual listings, the seven time Formula 1 World Champion's (US) $823 million in career earnings is beaten only by golf legend Tiger Woods.

American Woods has earned $869 million in his own ultra-successful career, the newspaper found.

And the Sunday Times said the pair have each earned hundreds of millions of dollars more than other high-earning sportsmen, including Michael Jordan ($516m), Roger Federer ($316m) and David Beckham ($258m).

Two of F1's other current drivers (also former World Champions) Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, were way down the top-twenty list, with their respective earnings at about $161 million apiece.

McLaren's world champions Lewis Hamilton ($89m) and Jenson Button ($85m), meanwhile, appear only on the list for British sportsmen, and they are both outpaced by the $129m earned by former Ferrari driver Eddie Irvine mainly through property investment.

However, Hamilton and Button have each earned more in their careers than David Coulthard, Nigel Mansell, former BAR boss David Richards (all $80m) and Sir Jackie Stewart ($67m).

Those earnings, however, are all dwarfed by Bernie Ecclestone's estimated $4 billion, although the 81-year-old F1 chief executive does not appear at all on the list of the world's richest overall.

That list is headed by mega-earners like Sauber sponsor Carlos Slim, who according to the Sunday Times is worth $71 billion.
 
I dig racing of historic cars.....back when gas was leaded, the cars were crude, and there was no substitute for cubic inches! That was the era when Mark Donohue famously said " If you can make two black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough horsepower."....no one says that kind of thing today :hillbilly:

Worth 7 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI1up3ukikU&nomobile=1
 
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