10-02-2006
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Moving Chicane / Regular Member (<5 Posts)
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi, I'm Timmy Megenbier. I have been racing karts since I was 5 and compete part time in the National Series.
I run a USAC Midget in Indy and still race karts.
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10-03-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Ellensburg, WA
Posts: 17
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hello all. My name is Gary DeWitt. Tom Roberts was my Skippy "mentor" for my first race and he clued me in to Team Juicy. I'm afraid I cheated though, and this is actually my second post.
I just completed my first race weekend yesterday! It was an eventful week including my ADV2, a lapping day, practice day and two days of racing at beautiful Road America, my first visit there. I had a terrific time, met some great people and learned a lot. Oh, and I drove seven cars in six days, though none of them was retired because of me.
Now I'm hooked, of course. I'll be back on track at Laguna Seca, site of my three-day school, in December.
Thanks all. This is a great place.
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10-03-2006
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Moving Chicane / Regular Member (<5 Posts)
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Appleton WI
Posts: 3
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hello, my name is Mark Repka, and I just completed my second race weekend. I've been wondering what all this Team Juicy "stuff" was about, so I thought I would pop in and say "hi". fficeffice" />
I've been coming to Road ffice:smarttags" />America as a spectator since I was a small boy, always wanting to be able to compete on that great track. No having had my chance, I can't get enough.
Hey Mr. DeWitt, good to see you made it home safely.
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10-03-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 19
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Re: Nationals: Greist and Rossi Win at Road America Sep 25, 2006
As a newbie this past weekend at RA, i'd like to extend thanks to all the experienced drivers who offered friendly advice, helpful observations, and the not infrequent snappy one-liner; clearly a Skippy trademark (and indeed taught and regularly practiced by every instructor on the track as well). Its great to be involved with other crazy people.......
Congrats to the entire Team Greist for impressive driving and comraderie, being true ambassadors for the sport and the group.
Best wishes to everyone in the Skippy paddock.
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10-15-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 14
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New Here
Hello everyone, I am new here and though I would chime in. I went the Road America 3 day school last September and loved it. I am looking to get into the 2 day and some races next year. Just though I would say hi and introduce myself.
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10-15-2006
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Podium Regular / Advanced Member (50+ Posts)
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Plymouth, WI
Posts: 51
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Re: New Here
Hi Cobra, welcome aboard; we need more racers.
I did my three day at RA in '00. did a car control clinic and 2 day advanced plus a lapping session the next summer and finally 'forced' myself to actually race in Sept '01 at RA.
I say forced because I was filled with anxiety and guilt over spending so much money on such a frivolous pastime. I got over that feeling in Sept '01 at RA during the racing.
I did lousy but I never had so much fun (while wearing clothes.)
If you are new to racing, be prepared.
It been said that racing is like heroin without the needle; highly addictive!
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11-16-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 12
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hey guys,
I'm Bobby Ellis and i will be racing in the Eastern Regional series this year. This will be my first season on the Skip Barbe circuit and I can't wait to get started. Just a little bit about myself...
I just made the cut for the Ron Sutton's Winner's Circle driver development program (dont know if any of you have heard about it)
I just won the WKA National Road Racing Series Jr. Sprint Lite championship
other then that im just a normal guy who loves racing! Hope i can fit in!
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"Racing is life, everything before or after is just waiting"
~Steve McQueen from the movie Le Mans
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11-17-2006
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Grand Master
Carbon Fiber Keyboard (3,000+ Posts)
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: location, location
Posts: 5,399
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Welcome Bobby,
Sounds like you've been having fun. Tell us more about the Ron Sutton Winners Circle program. What kind of cars or karts were you driving there and in the WKA championship?
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You draw 'em a picture and they eat the crayons... (Duck Waddle commenting on the creative ways some people interpret driving instruction.)
Last edited by dalyduo; 11-17-2006 at 03:41 AM.
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11-17-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 12
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Well, at the Ron Sutton Winners Circle there were 542 applicants, he then narrowed it down to around 120 intervies. Following that there were about 24 people invited to test in Ford Focus Midgets out in California at the All American Speedway. It was a blast driving those. I have done nothing but road racing my whole life, so it was very different driving on an oval haha
And through that program i joined the Skip Barber East series, will be testing in Formula Fords this year and will move on to race Ford Focus Midgets in 2008
In the WKA National Road Racing series i drove a 100cc Yamaha KT100 "can" kart (similar to supercan if there are any sprint track drivers out there). I missed the first two races of the season due to conflicts with work and such. You have two drop races out of 10, so I had to pull a "Schumacher" and win every race that season, and that's just what I did
So ya, thats basically it!
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"Racing is life, everything before or after is just waiting"
~Steve McQueen from the movie Le Mans
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11-27-2006
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G-force junkie
Speed Through Zen / Advanced Member (2,000+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Changes weekly
Posts: 2,183
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi Everyone!
Harsha Sen here, signing up for Team Juicy! I kept seeing those sexy visor strips and wanted to know what was up. Then I found the site so informative that I thought I should join. And I finally feel that I've written enough checks to Skippy for both track time and chassis surgery (when I go, I go BIG--can you say Laguna Turn Six AND the Downhill--and NATIONWIDE) that perhaps what I have to contribute may be useful to the group at large.
For those of you who don't know me, I've been payin' my dues at the bottom of the Sportsman food chain for the past 9 months-- you guys remember those times, right? When the pack got away so fast that it was hard to remember whether it was a lapping day or actually a race, and all you could do was admire the beautiful Road America foliage...and the groundhogs. Yep, done a lot of that. I came into this sort of by accident-- took some time off work after 20 years with the nose to the grindstone-- medschool, internship, residency, fellowship, research, teaching-- doing retinal surgery in Lexington, KY. I had long wanted to take a Skippy driving school and finally did last year, and realized I knew absolutely nothing about how to drive a car. I was so lost on the skidpad that I took a car control clinic as remedial training, so I could at least get the correction in in the right DIRECTION. Then I made the mistake of signing up for a 3 day racing school just for grins, and 1 year later, here I am still writing checks. Skippy may have prolems with their business model, but getting people hooked is not one of them!
I love long walks on the beach and massive GTP cars, and I'll promise to hold you and snuggle if I get to take your S7 out in the canyons come daylight.
Although I know some of you (tip of the hat to Bobo, TomBob, Sid, Duncan, and Big Al). I hope to get to know all of you better. See you down South or out West this winter.
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11-27-2006
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Grand Master
Carbon Fiber Keyboard (3,000+ Posts)
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: location, location
Posts: 5,399
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Welcome Harsha,
Your lack of race experience is more than compensated for by your big avatar! (Nice shot)
You've got the passion and self depricating humor to go far with this group.
Please promise us a full report after your intervention!
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You draw 'em a picture and they eat the crayons... (Duck Waddle commenting on the creative ways some people interpret driving instruction.)
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11-27-2006
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Testing Mid-Corner Speed / Advanced Member (500+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Louisville, KY
Age: 70
Posts: 829
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi,
Mike Spoelker, 53 year old mechanical engineer. First time I drove a race car was in August 2003 when I did the 3-day with two buddies at VIR. Did the 2 day advanced @ Laguna in Feb 2004 then did it again just a couple of weeks ago (Laguna again). Also did two lapping days (Laguna and Mid Ohio) in absolute driving rainstorms (Katrina remnants at Mid Ohio). About 5 - 10seconds a lap too slow to be competitive for racing purposes.
Started out as a pit go-fer back in the late 60's for the father of an engineering school buddy of mine who owned a methanol fueled Crosley powered TQ, back when they were a low rung on the ladder to USAC and Indy. Lots of characters back then. I still love the aroma of combusted methanol.
Used to add a bit of nitro, measured in the traditional dirt track Dixie Cup, for big races, like when Pancho Carter & son (Dana at the time) rolled in from California towing the most beautiful dirt track car I had ever seen, a Honda powered, chrome, pearl and engine-turned-goldleaf numbered vision. We used two cups of nitro that night. Every time the driver would toss the car into the corner and lift it would blow a two foot long blue flame out of the exhaust. Simply magic. I think we won that battle, but in the the end, the Carters' Honda didn't need nitro to compete, and a Crosley wouldn't run (long) every weekend during Indiana county fair season on nitro.
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11-28-2006
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G-force junkie
Speed Through Zen / Advanced Member (2,000+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Changes weekly
Posts: 2,183
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi DD, thanks for the welcome. I feel at home already.
As far as the avatar is concerned, they say size compensates for a lot of things! Seriously, I thought it was one of the cooler pics of The Great One.
With regard to interventions: 1) I think my family has been planning one for a while, but I figure if I never get out of the car and scrunch down as low as possible, they won't be able to get to me in the hot pits, and 2) problem? what problem??
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11-28-2006
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G-force junkie
Speed Through Zen / Advanced Member (2,000+ Posts)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Changes weekly
Posts: 2,183
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi Mike--
Nice to have another Kentucky skippy mate just down the road. I just joined myself, but it sounds like you have a bit more race experience than me. Look forward to meeting you soon.
Harsha
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12-11-2006
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Rookie / Regular Member (<10 Posts)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Byron, MN
Posts: 7
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Well gee, if Gary and Mark can introduce themselves, I suppose I should too. I did my first race weekend this year at RA in the season finale. It turns out that Mark and I did our three day class at RA the same time what was it, 3 years ago? I also did my 2 day class at RA in about the best circumstances possible - only 3 students! I don't think we saw the inside of a classroom more than 30 minutes a day that weekend. Skippy probably wasn't too happy, but we sure were.
About a half year later I did a lapping day and car control clinic at Sebring where I decided I wasn't in good enough shape to concentrate fully for a full race distance. Eighteen months inside a gym was good preparation for RA. Now all I need is some racing skill.
Tip for all you new racers - if you have to pick only one race weekend a year, pick one with a banquet and plan to stay Sunday night - Full banquet, live band , open bar - a good way to unwind and get to know the staff, instructors, mechanics, and fellow racers away from the track.
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Bent Wing Racing
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12-12-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Ellensburg, WA
Posts: 17
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Come race out west! On Saturday nights we have a dinner for everyone. This weekend's dinner, in Carmel, had 60 people! Skip didn't pick up the bar tab, but it was lots of fun.
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12-12-2006
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Maximizing Exit Speed / Advanced Member (10+ Posts)
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Richmond, VA
Age: 37
Posts: 15
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hi everyone, my name is William Pace (no relation to Jim Pace) and live in Richmond, VA. Last summer, I went to the 3 day school at Summit Point for a high school graduation present. Roger Cote, one of my instructors at the 3 day school, introduced me Team Juicy Racing. I saw a Skip Barber National race at VIR and met "Bobo." I am hoping to attend two lapping sessions at Homestead in January in order to start racing in the Regional Series. I have some karting experience in the past, but race part time. I am a student at Hampden-Sydney college in Farmville, VA and enjoy watching races, computers (building and gaming), and reading.
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12-15-2006
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Winning Races / Advanced Member (250+ Posts)
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 293
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Re: New Member Introduction Thread - Please stop in and say Hello
Hey there Will, good to see ya. Let me be the first to welcome you That will be a good time for some Florida weather AND the track is pretty damn fun too If I get to make to Fl. I'll look ya up at Homestead. If I don't see ya there, good luck and most importantly HAVE FUN !!!
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