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series", where us "normal, everyday people" on "normal everyday budgets" may
actually be able to get in and compete. But I still don't get the appeal of
the circular driving, and probably never will. I mean, when youget into your
car, you still must turn both right AND left, right? And don't you have to
shift gears (or your car with an autobox) once in a while? So, wouldn't it
be reasonable to assume, that automotive racing should mimic the real world
in order for it to be legit? Unless we are just racing for straight line
speed, such as Bonneville, or other drag-racing events, which certainly have
their justification - and IMHO more so than NASCAR.

There's one of the listers that takes his VW Passat Syncro to the drag
racing tracks, and from what I understand is actually pretty quick...

> Hmmm, I am a racing fan, I'm sorry if my post wasn't clear about that, and
> I never said the list doesn't want to discuss it.

I wan't saying that you did say that, just that there might be some few that
would raise a huffuffle if we continued this "on-list", and I don't want to
end up like Phil & Scott, dividing the list into 2 camps, each accusing one
of them (Phil & Scott) of just WOB'ing, and slinging mud. That was never my
intention here.

> The reason I looked at your
> post was because I _am_ interested in F1.  It was when you started going
> off on NASCAR racing in a stereotypical manner that I had a problem.

Sorry!

> You were bringing nothing new to the table, and you weren't discussing F1.
> Many of your complaints about NASCAR I agree with. (oval tracks, calling
> them stock, etc.)

Thank you!

>  I do like the "racing aspect" of cars, you just weren't
> discussing it in a constructive manner, and you weren't even close to
> having Audi content.

Sorry again.

> I don't particularly care for drag racing, but I don't post
> to the list about it.  No wait, I once compared Shirley Muldowney to
Michele
> Mouton as a groundbreaking female in her respective area of motorsport.
> Damn, what a dis.

Shame on you!  :-)

> BTW, I would love to be able to consider myself a wrenchhead, but
> compared to many people on this list, I'm not.  I only got jackstands in
the
> past year, and my skill as wrench is apprentice level at best.  I am a
much
> bigger race fan than I am a wrenchhead.

Still that qualifies as a wrenchhead. If you enjoy it, and occasionally
wrench on it, you're it! Yeah, sure, some might be BIGGER wrenchheads, but
you're still one, so there, for the records, you have my blessing to
consider yourself one!

> I hate to sound like Mom, but  I think "if you can't say something nice,
don't
> say it at all" applies to this situation.  Besides, your subject line asks
for
> complaints.  So you got a few.

You don't sound like Mom. I just think I might not have been clear, and
you're right on some of your "complaints" about my earlier post. However,
that wasn't what I was seeking complaints about, but rather the shameful way
in which Ferrari put a kabosh (sp?) on Barichello's chance for his 2'nd ever
GP victory, and screwed up the historybooks and the race, in the opinions of
many tifosi (of which I'm not one).

Michael L. Riebs
Grand Rapids, Michigan

'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

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