Attention Please - Subaru Enthusiasts Car Club of the Sierras

imprezton · 2003-03-16, 12:50 PM

sperry sux at teh kart racing.

That is all.

sperry · 2003-03-16, 12:55 PM

My car was slow!! Not my fault!!

It sucks driving a real clean line and having some 12 year old kid go sliding by me like I was letting him pass

!

imprezton · 2003-03-16, 04:37 PM

Oh and dknv is major cute. WAY too nice on the corners, but a major cute kart racer

sperry · 2003-03-16, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imprezton

Oh and dknv is major cute. WAY too nice on the corners, but a major cute kart racer

You just like women that are faster than you.

Wait, so do I! :shock:

How come there are so few women in motorsports? It's one of the few sports where strength, agility, and size (the normal "excuses" why women and men are in different leagues

) aren't the most important factor. In fact since women are smaller and lighter on average, they actually should be *better* than men for racing... (flying fighter aircraft too, but that's a whole other rant) The car does all the hard work, women should be just as fast as men... so why are there so few in the sport?

Poor Shawna Roberts... the only woman in NASCAR, and she's not very good (not because she's a "she" but because I watched her spin all alone on the 2nd lap at Fontana cuz her tires were cold. Rookie way to end your day

) NASCAR needs a female Jeff Gordon to build female acceptance in motorsports. F1 could use some women again too.

AtomicLabMonkey · 2003-03-17, 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry

My car was slow!! Not my fault!!

It sucks driving a real clean line and having some 12 year old kid go sliding by me like I was letting him pass

!

You can't drive a real clean line with karts and be fast the way you would with a car, you have to really throw them around to go fast. Two entirely different styles of driving...

dknv · 2003-03-17, 08:31 AM

Fast women? And I was trying to be subtle to start with.
:wink:

You bring up a good question, why are there so few women in motorsports? From my perspective - initimidation factor, for one. Fear of the unknown, fear we can't do it, not enough supportive men to instigate us to try. Then when we do try it, we don't start off with enough confidence to push the car and our skills unless someone is coaching/mentoring/screaming at us to gas gas gas, brake brake brake, and to stop coasting!

But anyway, guys, encourage your girlfriends/wives/sisters/mothers/co-workers to try some driving events or experiences. Bring them out to an autocross and encourage them to be a passenger first. They might like it, and then they might want to try it too.

btw - Imprezton, you are charming.

sperry · 2003-03-17, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

You can't drive a real clean line with karts and be fast the way you would with a car, you have to really throw them around to go fast. Two entirely different styles of driving...

How do you propose I thow the car down a straight line? I'd take a straight line thru the esses, and I'd have people passing me on the ouside the whole way!! That kart I had SUCKED.

I guess it didn't help that I weigh like 220, and those little kids were like a buck-oh-five TOPS. But my primary issue was my kart... you could just hear that I wasn't getting as many rpms as the other karts.

Oh well, next time!!

AtomicLabMonkey · 2003-03-17, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sperry

How do you propose I thow the car down a straight line? I'd take a straight line thru the esses, and I'd have people passing me on the ouside the whole way!! That kart I had SUCKED.

I guess it didn't help that I weigh like 220, and those little kids were like a buck-oh-five TOPS. But my primary issue was my kart... you could just hear that I wasn't getting as many rpms as the other karts.

Oh well, next time!!

Excuses, excuses... I've heard it all before.

tysonK · 2003-03-17, 05:44 PM

I pretty much wasted you guys/gals around the track!

It was fun though, I'll admit I had done it like 6 times before.

I think there will be plenty of women in motorsports in the coming years. With NASCAR exploding, all those midwest wives who watch the races with their husbands are gonna start seeing role models. And the NASCAR advertisers are'nt going to want to alienate that large of a buying market, who buys the Tide in the house anyway the man? I don't think so. Well I buy my Tide but I'm a bachelor.

vernorz · 2003-03-17, 06:14 PM

I've got some decent pictures of the slick track and some proof on just how badly Sperry sucks at da go karts.

If someone just wants to tell me where I can send 20some megs of pic's to?

ArthurS · 2003-03-17, 06:19 PM

Sperry could probably take them.....or you can send them to me.

arthur@scs.unr.edu

sperry · 2003-03-18, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vernorz

I've got some decent pictures of the slick track and some proof on just how badly Sperry sucks at da go karts.

If someone just wants to tell me where I can send 20some megs of pic's to?

Well, if you can zip them into 5 MB zips per email, then I can take them, but I think IGT will reject email over 5 mb.

I'll pm you my email, I don't want to post it for fear of spam.

sperry · 2003-03-18, 10:35 AM

I put Vernorz' pics up in the gallery too! Great shots from the slick track!

http://doink.net/gallery/index.php?g...Vernorz%20Pics

AtomicLabMonkey · 2003-03-18, 11:01 AM

You guys need to come down here and do some racing with real karts... if a helmet isn't required, you're not going fast enough. :wink:

http://www.speedring-kartracing.com/

dknv · 2003-03-18, 11:04 AM

oh man - I think all those spin pics of me are the same spin.... someone photochopped a different worker in there !

sperry · 2003-03-18, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

You guys need to come down here and do some racing with real karts... if a helmet isn't required, you're not going fast enough. :wink:

http://www.speedring-kartracing.com/

Too bad it's in San Jose.... anyone got $200k or so... let's start our own indoor kart track!!

ArthurS · 2003-03-18, 12:23 PM

Pocket change........

tysonK · 2003-03-18, 05:23 PM

man i look pissed in the lineup.jpg

in the front.

BOO · 2003-04-12, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imprezton

sperry sux at teh kart racing.

That is all.

WOW !! Sounds like you guys had a wonderful time crappy I missed it

Oh and where have you been Imprezton?? I havent seen you in like forever... Hope you and Kids are doing good

Ps: Ohh and by the way What do you guys think of this Pic??

ShawnS · 2003-04-13, 11:52 AM

Its the fast version of the Slut Mobile.

BOO · 2003-04-13, 12:57 PM

... Well I'D love to be the co-Driver .. lol

2003-03-16, 12:50 PM	#1
imprezton EJ18 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Over there by Atlantis Posts: 68	Attention Please sperry sux at teh kart racing. That is all.

2003-03-16, 12:55 PM	#2
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	My car was slow!! Not my fault!! It sucks driving a real clean line and having some 12 year old kid go sliding by me like I was letting him pass ! __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?

2003-03-17, 05:44 PM	#9
tysonK warehouse SECCS Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal... Posts: 6,253 Car: 04 Evo 99 Cadillac Class: street de le mod	I pretty much wasted you guys/gals around the track! It was fun though, I'll admit I had done it like 6 times before. I think there will be plenty of women in motorsports in the coming years. With NASCAR exploding, all those midwest wives who watch the races with their husbands are gonna start seeing role models. And the NASCAR advertisers are'nt going to want to alienate that large of a buying market, who buys the Tide in the house anyway the man? I don't think so. Well I buy my Tide but I'm a bachelor. __________________ Anjali? Anjali?

2003-03-17, 06:19 PM	#11
ArthurS EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 3,707 Car: 2011 Chevy Battle Wagon	Sperry could probably take them.....or you can send them to me. arthur@scs.unr.edu __________________ Captain Murphy: I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass. Be a hitter, babe.

2003-03-18, 10:35 AM	#13
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	I put Vernorz' pics up in the gallery too! Great shots from the slick track! http://doink.net/gallery/index.php?g...Vernorz%20Pics __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?

2003-03-16, 04:37 PM	#3
imprezton EJ18 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Over there by Atlantis Posts: 68	Oh and dknv is major cute. WAY too nice on the corners, but a major cute kart racer

2003-03-17, 08:31 AM	#6
dknv EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: 39n53, 119w90 Posts: 2,698 Car: RX-8 Class: CS maybe	Fast women? And I was trying to be subtle to start with. :wink: You bring up a good question, why are there so few women in motorsports? From my perspective - initimidation factor, for one. Fear of the unknown, fear we can't do it, not enough supportive men to instigate us to try. Then when we do try it, we don't start off with enough confidence to push the car and our skills unless someone is coaching/mentoring/screaming at us to gas gas gas, brake brake brake, and to stop coasting! But anyway, guys, encourage your girlfriends/wives/sisters/mothers/co-workers to try some driving events or experiences. Bring them out to an autocross and encourage them to be a passenger first. They might like it, and then they might want to try it too. btw - Imprezton, you are charming.

2003-03-17, 06:14 PM	#10
vernorz n00b Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 8	I've got some decent pictures of the slick track and some proof on just how badly Sperry sucks at da go karts. If someone just wants to tell me where I can send 20some megs of pic's to?

2003-03-18, 11:01 AM	#14
AtomicLabMonkey Nightwalker Real Name: Austin Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Oshkosh, WI Posts: 4,063 Car: '13 WRX YGBSM	You guys need to come down here and do some racing with real karts... if a helmet isn't required, you're not going fast enough. :wink: http://www.speedring-kartracing.com/ __________________ "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you.. you're locked in here with me."

2003-03-18, 11:04 AM	#15
dknv EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: 39n53, 119w90 Posts: 2,698 Car: RX-8 Class: CS maybe	oh man - I think all those spin pics of me are the same spin.... someone photochopped a different worker in there !

2003-03-18, 12:23 PM	#17
ArthurS EJ207 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 3,707 Car: 2011 Chevy Battle Wagon	Pocket change........ __________________ Captain Murphy: I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass. Be a hitter, babe.

2003-03-18, 05:23 PM	#18
tysonK warehouse SECCS Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: SoCal... Posts: 6,253 Car: 04 Evo 99 Cadillac Class: street de le mod	man i look pissed in the lineup.jpg in the front. __________________ Anjali? Anjali?

2003-04-13, 11:52 AM	#20
ShawnS EJ251 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle Posts: 540 Car: 1995 S14 Zenki	Its the fast version of the Slut Mobile. __________________ Either this boy has a light bulb up his ass, or his colon has a bright idea.

2003-04-13, 12:57 PM	#21
BOO EJ205 Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Reno, Nevada Posts: 2,076 Car: 12+tires Class: Spec. without hard work, nothing grows but weeds	... Well I'D love to be the co-Driver .. lol __________________ LOL.. The other White Meat ... lol ------------------------------------------------ subaru(STi) is a boys car, mitsubishi(evo) is a man's car - Jeremy (Top Gear) GC,GD,GM

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