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Ask Any Racer, Any REAL Racer…
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Jack Baruth
(IC: employee)
Published: December 3rd, 2010
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Pick the name that doesn’t belong: Ken Block, Tanner Foust, Paul Walker.
Figured it out yet? It’s obviously Paul Walker, who will be entering in a real race tomorrow when he steps into one of Team MER’s Playboy MX-5 Cup cars for the 25 Hours of Thunderhill.
Paul is now officially a real racer; the other two are still pay-driving wannabes indulging in timed activities. Your humble author wanted to join Team MER for the weekend but couldn’t come up with the required scratch. Don’t look for Paul to be double-clutching like he should at this race, by the way; it’s all granny-shifting for a 25-hour race.
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Published December 3rd, 2010 10:41 AM
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Whatever we class as racing, be it pondering along around some big oval, or risking your life amongst Finnish timber on a dirt road, Foust and Block are 'novelty' racers at best. They do events and show-driving mostly. Calling them racers would be like calling gymnastics a sport...
This is stupid controversy. First off, driving in circles on pavement does not imply more raciness than driving: - in a massive variety of surfaces and condition; - on roads that the driver has only driven once or twice; - with only the benefit of verbal instructions given by a fallible co-driver; - in a setting where mad hordes of live fans and god-knows-what lurk around every corner, many times on the track itself; - where the only barriers are cliff faces, trees, and country fences, and where employing the run off will often land you in a gully. Sorry, but pucker factor goes to the rally driver. Even if you don't believe all that, you still seem to be missing the definition of a certain key word: Race: noun, verb, raced, rac·ing. –noun 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. 2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at aset time over a regular course: They spent a day at theraces. 3. any contest or competition, esp. to achieve superiority: thearms race; the presidential race. 4. urgent need, responsibility, effort, etc., as when time is shortor a solution is imperative: the race to find an effectivevaccine. 5. onward movement; an onward or regular course. 6. the course of time. 7. the course of life or a part of life. 8. Geology . a. a strong or rapid current of water, as in the sea or ariver. b. the channel or bed of such a current or of any stream. 9. an artificial channel leading water to or from a place whereits energy is utilized. 10. the current of water in such a channel. 11. Also called raceway. Machinery . a channel, groove, or thelike, for sliding or rolling a part or parts, as the balls of a ballbearing. 12. textiles . a. the float between adjacent rows of pile. b. race plate. –verb (used without object) 13. to engage in a contest of speed; run a race. 14. to run horses or dogs in races; engage in or practice horseracing or dog racing. 15. to run, move, or go swiftly. 16. (of an engine, wheel, etc.) to run with undue or uncontrolledspeed when the load is diminished without correspondingdiminution of fuel, force, etc.
That Paul Walker sure is handsome.
Wow, this is juvenile. Someone needs to get themself to the Isle Of Man TT to see how inadequate a racer they really are. Also, what imag and PeriSoft said.