The 24 Hours of Lemons Forums → Our Crappy Race → Vaughn Gitten Jr. explains how I personally ruined his team's weekend
Looking forward to meeting you crazy fuckers in South Carolina.
Bring a good attitude and good beer or cash.
...... and not an SVX.
I can understand a guy complaining about incidental contact,...but.... complaining that they are in trouble for missing FLAGs. as in FLAGssss, multiple, that I don't get. If I make a little contact I am probably just havin' some fun, if I make incidental contact a lot, I am a nuisance and in trouble, but if I started missin' flags I need to be sent to nappy time.
My first time at a Lemons race was the toughest attitude adjustment. My short classroom session to all first timers would be " Accept whatever happens as part of the experience, Keep your race training in mind and dial up your race awareness to max, forget most all the "this is the way they do it where I am from", and keep it light.
Now let's see if I can remember that.....
the two guys that were nice, did they rack up all the penalties?
which guys did what? i was really excited to see them out there, it was cool. JR is factory backed by Ford, and has his own edition of the mustang, the Ready to Rock edition. JR is like super cool and pretty fun, and i've known the guys as fellow competitiors back when i was doing that, i can kinda see some of the ...dissapointing stuff from some of them back in 2004 but i thought they'd outgrown it.
I really hope they come back out, me and the texas guys were gonna try to hit some events cross country just for the hell of it.
My first time at a Lemons race was the toughest attitude adjustment. My short classroom session to all first timers would be " Accept whatever happens as part of the experience, Keep your race training in mind and dial up your race awareness to max, forget most all the "this is the way they do it where I am from", and keep it light. .
Well said. I really had to check my attitude for our first race when our team got black flagged for what we believed was a false passing under yellow call (but later confirmed by in car video). One of my team members (who does have a bit of an attitude problem) started giving shit to Jonny. While I was just as pissed as he was about the black flag, I almost literally threw him out of the penalty box because I knew the attitude would just make a bad situation way worse. Just take it in stride. I can think of several instances where I probably could have been black flagged that wasn't. So don't take it personal (unless you're Troy or Lyle... j/k).
"We had to write the following 100 times. I will let you try to fill in the blanks. Drifters are (blank) that (blank) and call it style."
lol. Does the "sport" of drifting really still exist?
the two guys that were nice, did they rack up all the penalties?
which guys did what?
The tall, thin, blond dude was the guy that not only denied getting two passing under yellows in a row, but gave me the most shit. He's also the one that accused the flaggers of being "out to get" them. So, when I heard that, and realized these guys had red mist, I told him to go up into timing and scoring for 30 minutes and watch what's going on (if any of you ever want to, come see me and I can sit you down in timing and scoring for half an hour -- it's quite eye opening).
Anyhow, blondie freaked out and told me he'd rather put the car on the trailer and go home than do that. So I took his wrist band. The short guy was also a dick to me, but earlier in the day than the blond guy.
Vaughn Gitten and the tall redhead were both really cool, to me at least.
Ya know...some people just don't get it, and will never get it, no matter what IT is..
(if any of you ever want to, come see me and I can sit you down in timing and scoring for half an hour -- it's quite eye opening).
OR..... you can go to Radio Shack and buy a scanner. Then you can monitor the corner stations and HQ. I found the conversations boring most of the time. No conspiracies, just a bunch of penalty calls
some guy on the drift site wrote:Jay is cool, but the judges are old and tired.
You're way better off with me and/or Jonny than Jay when you show up in the Penalty Box. Unfair, cruel, and arbitrarily harsh as we may be, we're the bleeding-heart liberals of the Lemons Justice System, next to Jay "Get That Heap On The Fucking Trailer" Lamm. Remember, his ass is the one that gets sued if your aggressive, "incidental contact"-prone driving puts someone in the hospital.
As for how we oughta "hear both sides of the story"... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (pause for breath) ha ha ha ha HA hahahahahaahahhahaaa!
Jay @ CMP after our fourth box visit in one day (saturday). "you guys are this close to loading up and going home. but I'm feeling generous, you are done for the day."
"tomorrow you need to drive like your grandmother is in the car, like there is a flat of eggs on the roof of your car." "and if i ever see you or hear anything more of you guys, you are out of here" Jay is just a big ole softy. 
next race "look the Dog Car is back".
MurileeMartin wrote:... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (pause for breath) ha ha ha ha HA hahahahahaahahhahaaa!
I would just like to add: ha ha ah ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaha1!!!
Excellent lungs. Nonsmoker?
Them Drifters must be the Shizzznit. Bet they live by the Reese Bobby (Ricky Bobby's pop) code: If you ain't first, you're last. That there is words to live by...
So basically the 240SX was like a Meth Lab house.......
Satellite TV Dish and the lights on, but no one home.
Wait, one of those guys was a drifter? Haaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaa
(Phil breath) Haaaaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaaaa............toolbox
At one time this weekend, Mr. Gitten had claimed (in the comments on his website) that Tommy Kendall's team was also tossed from the event at Thunderhill. The comment isn't there now, though. If that's true, then my prior comment comparing the drifters to Mr. Kendall was off-base...
There is a formula for successful Lemons driving.
Most of us get it...
KT
Correction- very few of us get it....
KT
some people just don't (& never will) get it......
so I will quote da rules
"1.1: Organizer Decisions: Organizer's decisions are final. If you don't like it, tough. Get your own race."
"2.4: Whiner Eligibility. Whiners are not eligible to compete. If you believe that you might be a whiner, please check with a domestic partner, guardian, or health-care professional before getting the rest of your team kicked the hell out of the race."
nuff said
I just wanted to say that I'm Daihatsu Touring Car All-Star DJ Commie and I feel that Johnnee let me down with his warm glow and generous nature, Phil's harassing attitude and general whip-cracking, and don't get me started on Jay "I'm on the phone ordering a pizza and a bomb threat" Lamb. Besides volunteering to keep the penalty canopy occupied whilst the judges got Starbucks, driving at T-Hill was like a combination of all the crappy scenes in Vanishing Point and that car chase in Matrix: Reloaded.
"We had to write the following 100 times. I will let you try to fill in the blanks. Drifters are (blank) that (blank) and call it style."
lol. Does the "sport" of drifting really still exist?
Drifting is a judged competition.
That makes it a real, competitive sport. Like ice dancing or water ballet... 
bob-e wrote:"We had to write the following 100 times. I will let you try to fill in the blanks. Drifters are (blank) that (blank) and call it style."
lol. Does the "sport" of drifting really still exist?
Drifting is a judged competition.
That makes it a real, competitive sport. Like ice dancing or water ballet...
True...& its always the friggin russian judge that screws ya!!!
you really brought this back from 2009 for a lame attempt at a stab at drifting?
lame.
if you're going to knock drifting for being judged, don't you think you should do it somewhere other than a forum for an "endurance race" that has....*gasp* JUDGES!
i don't think I've ever bestowed this honor upon anyone on this forum, so you are the 1st person I'm going to go ahead and call a moron on this forum, congrats.
move along now.
"back from 2009"...yup, apparently he did.
all the way back from the ancient history of three weeks ago, even!
i'll take a stab at it: "drifters are guys who apparently take themselves far too seriously and call it style."
lighten up, bud!
I thought a Drifter was the guys that were unable to dial in their rear suspension and stop the loose rear wheel slide. They made a competition out of it? Those who can't drive with the leaders make their own sport? Hmmmmmmmm.
i don't think I've ever bestowed this honor upon anyone on this forum, so you are the 1st person I'm going to go ahead and call a moron on this forum, congrats.
Ooh! Ooh! Can I be a moron too?? Pick me! Pick me!
Having a bad day eh? Did a splash of blue toilet water make it up your ass or are you always so agreeable? Ha-ha-ha!
Now lets talk about Kill-Switch.
Yours truly,
Sir Horsenotdead
President FLABLAS Anonymous (lower 48)
I thought a Drifter was the guys that were unable to dial in their rear suspension and stop the loose rear wheel slide. They made a competition out of it? Those who can't drive with the leaders make their own sport? Hmmmmmmmm.
drifters, huh?
um...maybe we shouldn't make fun of them after all.
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