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Offline nuchpatrick

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« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2004, 12:44:40 PM »
Guess... I fall in there with you Mike...  I finally did Sebring.  And I know for sure now that I will be getting that roll bar much sooner  :D
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« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2004, 12:51:43 PM »
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Guess... I fall in there with you Mike...  I finally did Sebring.  And I know for sure now that I will be getting that roll bar much sooner  :D


How is it?  Its one of the tracks I want to run.  Thus far Ive done Pocono North, Glen, and Summit Point.

Hopefully once this transfer works out and Im on the Left Coast I can hit up Laguna Seca - I want to scare the snot out of myself in the corkscrew.  :D
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« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2004, 02:15:34 PM »
I love the track.. I would have killed to beable to push the car more then I dared as I did wish to drive it home lol.  Perhaps I'll build a Spec Miata race car in a few years.

Of all the turns the one I remember the most is turn one if you cut the corner too close one could take the drivers side mirror off. If you were blocking someone trying to pass on the inside.
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« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2004, 03:26:45 PM »
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How is it?  Its one of the tracks I want to run.  Thus far Ive done Pocono North, Glen, and Summit Point.

Hopefully once this transfer works out and Im on the Left Coast I can hit up Laguna Seca - I want to scare the snot out of myself in the corkscrew.  :D


:D

lol sour, hows your porsche doing mechanically at the track. Any mods yet?
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« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2004, 03:33:36 PM »
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I love the track.. I would have killed to beable to push the car more then I dared as I did wish to drive it home lol.  Perhaps I'll build a Spec Miata race car in a few years.

Of all the turns the one I remember the most is turn one if you cut the corner too close one could take the drivers side mirror off. If you were blocking someone trying to pass on the inside.


Just get a shifter kart dude.  Way quicker than any Miata, and it's a cheap hobby.  If you break it, you still drive home.  You have to be in real good shape to drive one of those though.
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« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2004, 03:42:31 PM »
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Just get a shifter kart dude.  Way quicker than any Miata, and it's a cheap hobby.  If you break it, you still drive home.  You have to be in real good shape to drive one of those though.


You mean like one of these

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« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2004, 03:50:39 PM »
LOL, go kart racing is a great sport. Wish they showed more of it on TV, like the European karting events as well. Anybody ever hear of Mike Wilson? Havent dont that in a few years. Thats bumper to bumper racing. Would like to get back into it but not right now. Im not worried since I know I can race karts till Im over 50 years old.

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« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2004, 03:52:30 PM »
Ehh.. I like to have metal around me and I wouldn't want to drive a Kart around Sebring unless I got paid lots of money.

I can pick up a late model 1.6L Miata for Spec Miata racing for about 2500..and most likely have it turned into a racer for under 5 grand. I can do 80% of the work my self.. I just have to have the time..right now I don't have it.

Besides I have fun...either crushing cones or just doing lap's at a road course. In all honesty I'd rather take out a sea of cones if I screw the pooch then hit a wall. :rolleyes:  :D


Cobra is that your Shifter Kart?? It's sweet looking!
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« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2004, 04:01:32 PM »
You really want some speed try one of these.
I weight 260lbs and this little beauty got my fat Arse to 170mph

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« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2004, 04:03:39 PM »
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LOL, go kart racing is a great sport. Wish they showed more of it on TV, like the European karting events as well. Anybody ever hear of Mike Wilson? Havent dont that in a few years. Thats bumper to bumper racing. Would like to get back into it but not right now. Im not worried since I know I can race karts till Im over 50 years old.

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Yeah I stoped sprint racing and bought a 250cc superKart.
But a little trip into a tree at 60mph made me look for another hobby LOL.

It totaled A 12k Kart and the wife said no more LOL.

Yeah that was my yamaha CRG shifter but I sold it to buy the above mentioned 250cc SuperKart.
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« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2004, 04:06:04 PM »
Now I just ride this thing LOL.
Im getting too old for all the speedy stuff.

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« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2004, 04:13:54 PM »
Oh man, Superkarts are SICK.  They run at Laguna Seca pretty often.  They run faster times there than anything but the CART boys.  :)
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« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2004, 04:16:58 PM »
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Yeah I stoped sprint racing and bought a 250cc superKart.
But a little trip into a tree at 60mph made me look for another hobby LOL.

It totaled A 12k Kart and the wife said no more LOL.

Yeah that was my yamaha CRG shifter but I sold it to buy the above mentioned 250cc SuperKart.


Ouch, thats goto hurt. I almost creamed another kart once in a fast monza turn at 65-70 mph. He spun out and was sitting in the middle of the track, I missed him by a few inches. I've never been off the track in a kart to badly, just a touch and go.
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« Reply #28 on: March 08, 2004, 04:17:41 PM »
Yeah those dude like Eddie Lawson where hitting 158mph at Laguna seca.

At Oakhill here In Texas we hit 120-130 on one straight.

I miss is but man It cost you major bucks to be competitive.
I spent on average 800 bucks on a race week end.
And the Kart are 12K!

Mine was a 257 rotax single cylinder.
The one like eddie lawsons is a TZ250cc twin puts out stupid amounts of HPs.
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« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2004, 04:18:29 PM »
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Oh man, Superkarts are SICK.  They run at Laguna Seca pretty often.  They run faster times there than anything but the CART boys.  :)


I heard they have pro events now. You can win money racing those.
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