PRO teams (Page 1 of 2)

It doesn't matter. 

Everyone still has $500 to work with.  If they go over, they have to face the same judges that we all do and they have a keen nose for ferreting out cheating.  Chump has Tony Steward running at VIR this weekend - and reports from the track are that both thier cars have lost engines.

lifted from someone's blog:
"New developments....Tony Stewart,Rusty Wallace and Jimmie Johnson are here(including the full double decker 18 wheel rig).new plan is to either beat the Nascar ringers,or punt Tony Stewart,start a fight with him and make the national news."

Oh crap, that would be too funny! He would have a cow trying to race with all of us. It would be interesting to see what he has to say after a few hours behind the wheel.

Depends... If the "Pro" team is fully funding and supporting it as opposed to just people from a pro team just participating, yeah, they'll kick your ass most likely. Even on the same budget, somebody that knows what they are doing with the machine and how to run a team will get up front pretty easy.

Rob,

My best freind was (is? )a frat brother of Dave.  they got together recently, I forget why.  Jim tells me he's a really nice guy.

On another note, I'm looking at buying a mister 2 and would like to pick your brain, or what you may have left of it...

Matt

I'm guessing that by your response on the forum that you were not able to participate this weekend?

Well according to the posts on the VIR $500 other race this weekend, The pro teams are putting their 2nd engine in the car and have no pissed off any other teams.

it probably helped a lot that cup had this weekend off.

what would a big $$ team have to gain beating a bunch of idiots with $500 crapcans

i think its AWESOME and i know exactly why they are there

you ready for this, its revolutionary i know!!

fun with cars!!!

you cant imagine half the rings you jump thru at pro level stuff, i bet crapcan racing becomes a new instant vacation for them and will probably pick up steam for these guys. who are just like us but have talent.

I like the idea of top-level racers coming to dice it up with us!  I think it brings exposure that is good for all of us.  Plus, how awesome is it to race against (and potentially pass and beat) the guys who get paid to do this?! 

With that said, I don't think that just having pro drivers does anything for your team except guarantee that Judge Jonny and Phil are going to scrutinize the living hell out of your car.  Remember the Channel 4 News team at ThunderHill '09?  All drivers were professional drifters.  They ended up with several penalty laps and finally had to put it on the trailer before the end of the race, which brings me to my second reason that pros won't come in and dominate.

Lemons racing is different from top-level racing (duh, but hear me out).  It requires a different skill set, not entirely, but you need a few more tools in your box.  Guys at the apex of motorsports pretty much all drive the same: really really well, with clearly interpretable intentions that allot for clean driving at 10/10ths.  Us?  Not so much.  You can't just throw a guy who always knows what the driver in front will do (silly things like hitting apexes and such) against a pack full of parade floats and nimrods who have never been on a track before and expect him to do well.  He'll no doubt be quick, but my crystal ball shows something black and rectangular waving at him.

those guys showed up to have fun and party, and chose to go home after they got what they feel was picked on, and hearing their side of the story as well i feel they may have been singled out.  they really did show up to have fun and their car was a pos built from a trash pile of parts they collected off of a forum. 

in the context of ''pro teams that wanna show up and dominate'' they do not fit that bill.  all of them have 18wheelers and they specifically wanted to just hang out and party, and thus didnt bring that stuff.

not trying to beat a dead horse, but dont lump them in that pile.

I have yet to see a pit crew of 7+ guys all wearing identical outfits rip off a pit stop in under 20 seconds..... 

But it would be hard to get the driver out in time too!!! 

I am quite proud of our pit team.....we get it done....good enough for Lemons anyway....