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Topic: Thanks to NSF and Bridget ...

... and everyone at MSR Houston for their Southern Hospitality.

It was great to end my season there this year with a fun opportunity to drive a crappy car. Who would have thought we could get a completely stock Chrysler Sebring on the finest Brake Best pads (when Carbotech failed us) up to 23rd place overall? It would have been 22nd overall if we wouldn't have let the old geezers escort service by without a fight a lap and a half before the extended full course yellow that ended the weekend. Then again, the front left tire had already worn through 2 layers of steel belts by that point and who knows if it would have held air until the end of the race, otherwise.

It was tough to see the MTGT and then Cookie Warlord carted off the track with severe wall-assisted damage. Glad nobody was hurt in either incident.

Equally tough to see the Swamp Shack Maniacs unable to continue their Class C Battle-Royale with the Resistance's Honda Goldwing/Civic. It was a 2 laps race with fuel stop pit strategy ready to determine the winner until the bitter reminder that These Aren't Race Cars reliability thing reared its ugly head. Kudos to the Resistance for catching a potential race-ending failure before it had a chance to strike. Who the heck looks for loose bolts INSIDE their alternator when they check over their car on Saturday night? They do. Meticulous prep and a well-deserved 11th overall in a 1975ish Honda Civic.

Oh, and ALSO equally tough to see was watching Ronda Rousey get absolutely schooled via PPV while sitting in Inglorious Bastards pit space. Thanks Gerry for the use of the Earnhardt chair and the offer to sleep in your RV.

Lots of great stories. Lots of wonderful, friendly people.

Bob, Ronman and the rest of the NSF crew and part-timers are awesome, giant-hearted folks. Oh, and they're also very thirsty, apparently.

Thanks to everyone for making me feel welcome.

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All of that, right there?

Awesome.

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Wow! What a large time.

I was proud to be an honorary NSF member this weekend.  Just being able to say I raced with Bob's NSF team and with Spank during the same weekend was a lot of fun, and to finally race on a team with and spend the weekend with Ron V and John W who I am facebook buddies with but had never really gotten to know in person except in passing at other races. And I somehow had never met Scott before but he's a blast to hang with.  It was like playing for an All Star team.  On which, to force the analogy,  I was the undeserving but mandatory representative of the worst team in the league.

And the fact that is was a truly terrible car that we had no intention of fixing if it broke made for a really fun, relaxed weekend from the get go.  And that weather tho!  The most beautiful Lemons weather  I have ever experienced.

NSF's extra-curricular efforts go so far beyond the pale of comparison with any other team I've ever raced with.  Let's just leave that there.

And to walk away with an IOE patch.  That's just silly. It's a joy that cannot be explained to non-lemons people.  I'm still grinning about it.

Large time.

Dave

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-Dave
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Don't let this guy sandbag you -  He was a giant ball of kindeling - all he needed was a spark.     

He was like Chicago on fire and blamed the fucking cow... 



I'll paraphrase -" I truly underestimated how much whisky to buy tonight"  "We should have gotten more..."

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DEDICATION:    DRIVING into the paddock at 9:30 AM with the hotel trashcan in your lap 1/2 full of whatever you ate the night before and still feel the need to help the team  win!

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NSF wrote:

DEDICATION:    DRIVING into the paddock at 9:30 AM with the hotel trashcan in your lap 1/2 full of whatever you ate the night before and still feel the need to help the team  win!

I have a hard time picturing Spank doing this (though I'm sure that's how most NSF members gets to the track every morning), but if true I am very disappointed I missed it.

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Judge Phil wrote:
NSF wrote:

DEDICATION:    DRIVING into the paddock at 9:30 AM with the hotel trashcan in your lap 1/2 full of whatever you ate the night before and still feel the need to help the team  win!

I have a hard time picturing Spank doing this (though I'm sure that's how most NSF members gets to the track every morning), but if true I am very disappointed I missed it.

Ummm.

Errrr.

Bob may be a little off. You know, time change and all.

And it was more like 11:30.

Let's just say that Sensory Assault Scott was the first one to arrive at the track and had to be strapped in because He Who Was Supposed To Drive First was "Suffering from full blown AIDS." And no, Charlie Sheen was not on the driver roster.

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Oh dear God... NSF and Sensory Assault got together at a Midget Strip Club? That must have been the end of the world.

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Judge Phil wrote:

if true I am very disappointed I missed it.

This...

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Ask Nick to send you the 8x10.

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Sounds like a great time was had!

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NSF wrote:

He was a giant ball of kindeling - all he needed was a spark.

There are more sparks in an NSF pit space than a hydrogen burn off igniter at KSC.
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-Dave
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Look, in our defense, when you sign on to A&D with NSF you expect that you'll either have a wrench in your hand or a foam insulated cup.

When you arrive at the track and you see more than 4" of standing water and friggin' terrarium with an entire root system threading throughout the entire rear half of the car, you figure, "It's gonna be a wrench."

And I figure, with that, I'll be in my comfort zone.

Then Bob shows up and says the car has a DNR order.

When the car just runs and runs all day Saturday with only a few survivable glitches, there's a lot of Latent Energy...

Let's just say Hoonatic John ended up having to be the designated driver.

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Oh, and I also have to thank Fish and Dave for letting me sleep in their trailer Thursday night, and thank/apologize to a couple other teams for not-quite-knowing-that-they-let me sleep in their rental garages the other nights.

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Spank wrote:

...and thank/apologize to a couple other teams for not-quite-knowing-that-they-let me sleep in their rental garages the other nights.


Can you imagine the horror in the face of the couple that rolled open their garage space Sunday morning and found Spank in his tightie-whities sprawled out in his sleeping bag sporting morning wood?

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NSF wrote:
Spank wrote:

...and thank/apologize to a couple other teams for not-quite-knowing-that-they-let me sleep in their rental garages the other nights.


Can you imagine the horror in the face of the couple that rolled open their garage space Sunday morning and found Spank in his tightie-whities sprawled out in his sleeping bag sporting morning wood?

At least it wasn't the homeless-looking-dude version of Spank

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Dang it, Bob! When you messaged me about needing a driver on Friday, you made no mention of midget strippers! None! That is what we in the hopeless degenerate world call a game-changer!

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yodogg wrote:

Dang it, Bob! When you messaged me about needing a driver on Friday, you made no mention of midget strippers! None! That is what we in the hopeless degenerate world call a game-changer!

Sorry about that - I was not on a secure line to divulge details...  Poor Scott had to Iron-Man the first stint Sunday, 2:40 hours because the other NSFers BAC was still in doubt.


Furthermore NSF didn't win the IOE - The Sebring won the IOE despite all of our efforts to do otherwise.

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Good to see you guys this weekend. Congrats on the IoE, and thanks for the whiskey on whatever night that was. I think the picture in question is on a certain driver's FB page. I wouldn't recommend looking for it on a work computer.

So which local team was conned/persuaded into taking the Sebring?

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We gave the Sebring away at the track to a 13 year old kid who liked the car - We asked him if he wanted it and he said............... YES!!!!!... 

He was very excited!!!

I'm not sure Scott is talking to me anymore

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NSF wrote:

We gave the Sebring away at the track to a 13 year old kid who liked the car - We asked him if he wanted it and he said............... YES!!!!!... 

He was very excited!!!

I'm not sure Scott is talking to me anymore

I did the same to a neighborhood kid who was climbing all over my destroyed demo derby car the morning after the derby. His dad was not impressed when he ran home with the news that he had just been given a racecar and asked should it be dropped in the driveway or front lawn smile

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When John and I are the so-called "responsible" members of the party, hoo boy. That's trouble.

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ninjacoco wrote:

When John and I are the so-called "responsible" members of the party, hoo boy. That's trouble.


   Our moral compass had us pointed straight to hell!

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What moral compass? I pawned that thing for more bourbon.