Yeah, when you race a 2600lb car with only 130hp the pressure to stay thin
is immense. Sort of like the supermodels, except no one thinks we're sexy.
I hear Randy's even coming out with a new hat and underwear collection for
the fall, so start your dieting early :P
Well that pretty much takes care of the "too much autox content" problem,
huh?
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Kelly [mailto:lollipop487@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:03 PM
To: Alan Gruner; ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Cereal and psychological warfare (was Stock Shock Chalk
Talk)
Neither one of you looks like you eat breakfast, lunch or dinner! Shooting
for good power to weight, I guess. :)
--Pat K
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>From: Alan Gruner <algruner@yahoo.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Cereal and psychological warfare (was Stock Shock Chalk Talk)
>Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2002, 3:56 PM
>
> I think it's a mind trick Peter. I'll bet he doesn't
> even eat breakfast. How can afford it after spending
> all that money on tires and shocks. :)
>
> --- "Thana, Peter {High~Palo Alto}"
> <PETER.THANA@ROCHE.COM> wrote:
>> Since you're so damned fast and I can't afford
>> Penskes, would you care to
>> share with us the best brands of hats, underwear,
>> and breakfast cereal? I
>> really like Honey Comb but I also want to trophy at
>> Nationals someday.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Randy Noll [mailto:rnoll98@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:15 PM
>> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Stock Shock Chalk Talk
>>
>>
>> I think we're still missing a large chunk of the
>> debate here. Some
>> responses are saying how people are not spending
>> ridiculous amounts on
>> tires, prep, etc. right now so why should they on
>> shocks just to be
>> competitive. The fact of the matter is if you aren't
>> spending bucks on
>> tires you won't be competitive even with shocks, at
>> the national level.
>> And, unfortunately all the national guys and gals
>> have to run locally
>> somewhere. So, for the unfortunate people that have
>> to deal with the
>> Andy McKees, Vic Sias's, and others like them at the
>> regional level,
>> you better have the best rubber, shocks, gloves,
>> hat, underware,
>> breakfast cereal, and the like in order to be
>> competitive, because they
>> do. The tire argument rings very true... it's much
>> more expensive to
>> keep up with rubber than with shocks.
>>
>> We can't look at the argument through "national
>> driver's" and "regional
>> driver's" eyes and say that one or the other is a
>> minority or that a
>> rule only favors one or the other. All national
>> drivers are regional
>> drivers, and all regional drivers have to drive
>> with/against national
>> drivers. Quite frankly, each one needs the other for
>> our hobby to
>> survive.
>>
>> I don't think people would mind spending money on
>> penskes if they could
>> be ensured that their car would be competitive for 5
>> or more years with
>> that setup. What would worry me is that I might make
>> an investment in a
>> car (whether it's mine already or I buy it
>> specifically to autox) that
>> could be deemed uncompetitive next year, regardless
>> of equipment.
>> Again, maybe we should be looking more at stock
>> class stability?
>>
>> Like Katie said for herself, I'm sure 90% of us will
>> still autox
>> regardless of what the rules are.
>>
>> randy
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