for once, I agree with Eric... I mean it seamed a bit odd to have Mansel
win the CART rookie of the year award.....
Heyward "no longer a rookie" Wagner
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Linnhoff <eric10mm@qni.com>
To: Team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: Solo II Co-Rookies of the Year
> Now I simply must address this "rookie" titling.
>
> Just because someone has never attended Nationals does not necessarily
make
> them a rookie. There are tons of folks who have many years under their
> belts and just because they attend the Nationals for the first time
they're
> a rookie? Hardly. I heard tell of a gentlemen who's been autocrossing
for
> 30 some years and just this year finally made it to the "big show" in
> Topeka.
>
> _That's_ no rookie.
>
> To me, a rookie is in only their first or second year ever and attending
the
> Nationals for the first time. Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't want
> to take away anything from those folks who drove their butts off for their
> wins but a rookie should, by definition, have very few rings around their
> trunks.
>
> That's all I have to say about that.
>
> Eric Linnhoff in KC
> #69DS TLS #13
> '98 Neon R/T
> <eric10mm@qni.com>
>
> "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time,
> the farther we penetrate the unknown,
> the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."
> Charles A. Lindbergh
>
>
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