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11-22-2011 | 01:47 AM

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Blue Screw

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Joined: Nov 2001

Posts: 356

From: NJ

Bob you couldnt said it better Im 28 years old now.. i went to my 1st cleveland at age 17 my set everything up for me i took a flight got to the air port and there was the driver took me to the hotel i checked in had my own room it was dialed... Im from south jersey i thought i was the shit i started racing at 14 i just recieved my 50% from trinity and i adn i had 1 fresh switchblades 12 and a fresh losi tc with novak speedo ... pretty much carbon copys of the factory team boys cars...think it was the street weapon with the cyrul conversion on it..ya... and man what a slap in the face!like u said.. i was the on the rise at home but man o man.. im suprise they didnt throw me off the team there.lol think i was in the last mains in both my 1st year... but good memeorys... I remeber the 4th floor was the AE floor...lol But i will tell u what i learned more there coming in almost last then anywere and i kept going every year and included snowbirds and then talked my good friend JEFF CUFFS into coming and we drove and each year we got high and high till me made the mains ... Matter fact look at cuffs now! plus changes the tc3 came out this an that... .. and GOOD OLD DENNYS!!!!

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Originally Posted by Bob-Stormer

They were so cool, wheel dots. *sniff*

Nothing slaps you in the face more than finding out where you stood on a national level like a good solid beatdown, in the Q main.

I recall hating it and liking it. I think the highest I ever got back then was 2nd in the "B", and I'm not complaining when you go 200+ drivers deep in a class. In fact, now that I think about it the last 2 times I raced masters at Cleveland I was in the "B"... SON-of-a-BITZ... I'm stuck in the B!!!

But it was nice to see it. You could honestly say back then and I think it was reasonable to say it. "dude, I took 34th. Makes me the 34th fastest driver in the country. 2 classes, everybody was in them, everybody was there.

Now, everybody is special and needs a trophy and a class, or the racing isn't "fair".

Sometimes your gonna suck real bad, maybe even all the time. But that's why it's called racing and not simply, "winning".

I find I do a lot more "racing" than I used to.

Now, to get masters age limit moved about 10 years older and toss out some of the young bucks. Or whoever we have to toss to finally get me in the show. that's the direction we should be pursuing.

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