For those of you who missed it last night (and I hope that is the vast
majority of you!) there was a segment on the Discovery channel that
featured the Skippy school. Some of you probably remember the film
crew poking around in May interviewing people etc.
They did a pretty good job on the whole school/series. Lots of great
footage and a pretty good run down on what you need to go through to
compete. Michael, Gerardo, Spencer, MHP, and Mark Patterson in particular,
really did a great job in their interviews.
I, for one, I remember a fair amount of the interviews they
had with me. Nothing to hard. I had a lot of "Need more seat time", "The
instructors are great", "Everyone has a blast..." Simple
and easy. Everything was going well until they attached that camera
to my car at the start of the second race. I remember asking them, "Why
me?" They said they wanted to film a rookie. "Hmmm, this
is bad", I thought. "Nothing good can come from this",
I thought. They said "Think of the excitement, the thrill, the
opportunity to show this to everyone you know!" "You will
be on TV!" Suddenly, the "Nothing good can come from this" part
turned into "Hey! What the heck! This could be a scream!" Ohhh,
the excitement!!!
Yes. The excitement.
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Yep.
You guessed it. I am the one in the blue car and
the black helmet that crashed on No-Name straight
on lap 4. They show it a few times during the segment
which is nice. I think they call one of those showings
a "teaser". In any event, they show it
a couple of times so don't worry about missing
it. It's fun for the whole family. As you can imagine,
I have spent a fair amount of time today responding
to questions from my colleagues on how I crashed.
For some strange reason they all want to know how I crashed on a straight-away,
because, you know, that part really looks easy...
Ohhh, the excitement.
Hope you all have a great couple of months! I'll see you at the track.
-Jim
Responses
from his Buddies
So,
HOW do you crash on a straightaway? I know Kerri
Farr (Skippy sales manager) has experience with
this technique at Road America, so perhaps she
could help you with it. :-) Hope to see you again
soon. Wasn't all that filming stuff fun?
-Gerardo Bonilla
Well,
nobody is as excited as me! Why?
Because I was on TV? No.
Because Sy's wife said I looked sexy on TV? NO!
Because perhaps now someone has done something more foolish on TV than
not ride with Hans Stuck on the Nurburgring!! This has got to take
the pressure off of me.
Jim, next time remember the line that I made famous.... "I think
I'll sit this one out"!
-Michael
Auriemma
Sorry
Michael. Certain events are pivotal and shall
always be remembered . . . the invention of the
steam engine, the Civil War, Pearl Harbor, Walter's
Freelander, 9/11 and of course, "I think
I'll sit this one out."
-Dick
Lippert
I
am making VHS copies from our marketing copy
for anyone that missed it/would like to have
it. Except Dick Lippert. The Freelander comment
made me spill my sloe gin fizz on my sun dress.
