there is a guy who has been diving his truck in nascar for years, his name is i believe jermaine. anyhow this woman i know told him about me cause he is looking for a driver because his other driver is gone. so he wants to teach me how to drive and teach me to work on his car and in time if i''m good he'll put me on the payroll. she told him i like the 1/4 but he said he'll change my thoughts on that, i guess i'm suppose to meet him sometime this week, i don't know much about nascar exept they drive in a circle but it kinda looks fun, i don't know, i hope this guy isn't a fake.

just thought i'd tell you guys since your pretty much my only car buddies i have. i'll keep you guys posted

don't give him any money for it. Good rule of thumb
happy camping meng twould be cool if we had some proffessional race drivers on here.

Nice.

Good luck, and I hope he's real.

congrats if its real. but too bad you might go from driving a VR-4 to driving a v8 RWD taurus that is hardly stock that is driving in a circle for 100+ laps.

wow i hope you get to drive professionally and i hope you enjoy the same success as adam petty and davey allison

Yes, best of luck.
Myself,I couldn't do it. Sure I admit there is a great deal of driver skill required since all the cars are basically the same as far as power output,aerodynamics,etc.
I NEED right hand turns,grades, and chicanes!!!!

Again,good luck and hope this guy is the real deal to get a pro career started for you :)

I'd hate to say it, but I doubt it's the real NASCAR series like the one you see on TV.


Compared to the likes of Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, you're an Ultra n00b. So most likely it's one of the 'little leagues'. I seriously doubt somebody fresh from off the street would be considered 'good enough' to go play with the 'big boys'.


I think it may be something along these lines: ALSTAR (http://www.alstarseries.com/)



I personally just don't see somebody who hasn't been racing since they were like 14 years old in the various teenager and spec racing leagues to just step into the top level of the stock car racing leagues.

It's just like professional sports, you just don't hear of people randomly joining the teams. Like in Baseball, It's something you've got to work up to through highschool-college-minor league-major league. Of course there are the exceptions where people skip college ball and the minor leagues altogether, but you've gotta be one hell of a ball player to attract that much attention.

But, if it's really the NASCAR Busch Series, or the Craftsman Truck Series... go for it. I hope this is the real deal for you, just don't get your hopes up just yet.

:thumbsup:

Good for you.
Big leauge or not...its a start or a stepping stone to get to higher level of racing. I hope its the real deal.

Good luck! Let us know how it turns out.

lumpy dick i agree i wish him the same kind of luck the good ones have lived with i hope you also have the brilliant career of the likes of adam petty

well i agree with redneck but i hope regardless things work out well for you.

yeah i wont get my hopes up, i'm tryna humble myself. thanks everyone for the support.

I hope it goes well for you, too. The short tracks are a great place to hone all of your driving skills. I think it was Gordon Johncock (former Indy 500 winner and hero to his home track, Sandusky Speedway.) who said "A short track is a road course with four corners."

Heck, maybe I should come out of retirement and get back into open wheel racing. There's a new 305 asphalt sprint car series starting up here in Ohio, and I know a few guys with cars who need drivers.

Makes me wish Dion Parrish hadn't been killed at Kalamazoo Speedway testing his new supermodified. He was a close friend and had promised me a test in his old car, a 1981 Shocar chassis, as soon as the new car was sorted out.

you use to race?

Quarter midgets in my younger days and a few tests with different sprint teams (both dirt and asphalt).

I once held the quarter midget track record at the now defunct Killidare Speedway, in that same season I had a pretty wild wreck where the car rolled over a wall and slammed down hard on the cage. I ended up with a broken collarbone and lost my ride.

It was a bummer because people around here were saying I'd probably make it to Indy. But I was only 10 at the time I lost the ride, and I had tests from the time I was 14 to two seasons ago.

If Dion hadn't had his tragic accident, our deal was that I had to turn fifteen laps under 15seconds at Sandusky Speedway with the car straight off the trailer. If I could do that, all I would have had to do was bring a sponsor on board and I'd have had an MSA and ISMA Supermodified ride.

is big wrecks common in nascar? cause thats whats making me second guess this, even though its most likely the ametuer leagues and pretty positive it is, i love racing but not crashing

is big wrecks common in nascar? cause thats whats making me second guess this, even though its most likely the ametuer leagues and pretty positive it is, i love racing but not crashing



Are big wrecks common? Are you serious?... there's on average one to two big wrecks in a single race. With a hand full of small wrecks through out the race, usually just one or two cars tapping each other too hard and spinning out. Most of the time nothing results they just spin to the bottom of the track and rejoin the pack, but there are big wrecks in NASCAR and they are common.

Half the fun of watching NASCAR is for the wrecks. That's why it's a really great spectator sport.


Injuries, that's different. The racing in NASCAR is incredibly safe, very rarely is somebody Killed while racing... most common injury I can think of is maybe a broken arm or a foot... something random. But it's very rare, the cars are just a rolling safety cage. You're more likely to die in your VR4 in a 30mph fender bender than in a Winston Cup race car doing 180mph.

WOW, that makes me feel a lot better, oh what the hell i'll at least try it.

Do it dude... if nothing happens of it you can at least say you got to tear ass around a track in a Stock Car for a few laps. :p

the neck braces that were invented save you from destroying your skull etc. example indy car crashed at 200mph in wall guy walked away from it no problems with teh head. He fucked his foot up for a bit tho.