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03-17-2005, 02:27 AM | #106 | ||||
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What are you smoking and is it legal in Amsterdam? I understand wanting to race what you want, where you want, but whose idea was it to take a totally untested car and a completely inexperienced driver into what is arguably the most competitive road racing series in North America? Even a full year of endurance karting is nothing compared to what the least experienced full-time driver in WCGT has under their belt. Who's sponsoring this team? C. |
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Anyway, he needs gigantic amounts of seat time in the Skyline just in order to deal with the battling leaders come up to lap him. Those guys will have no mercy for a rookie as they battle it out. Seems like a nice guy...wanna keep him from making a really costly mistake. Anyway, bottom line is that if he has serious natural talent then a year of solid racing should make him good enough to avoid disaster. However, if not, lol, he might want to consider 2007. |
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Igor is a very intelligent, and motivated young man. Plus, with the car he has, and a team of experts to back him, I have all the confidence in the world that not only can he participate in the WCGT, but he will be competitive. He is probably one of the most intelligent people I have had the pleasure to speak with, and I have friends and family in Mensa. Give him a chance, before you try to chastise him, please.
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The thing is that all the other teams have experts and drivers with years of experience. Also, despite the idolized view you have of the Skyline I doubt it will be a competitive car. It is an aging platform and in the engine-restricted series of GT will not to be able to use its ability to creative massive hp. Its handling isn't exactly legendary either. |
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03-17-2005, 05:26 PM | #110 | |||
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1 year. Actually 15 months of development for this car for this series. We are currently at Sebring - looking and learning more about what we threw our hat into. As far as this car being untested. Its a Nismo built race car. A car based on a chassis that Nismo has been racing for 16 years. Its a 5 year old race car that finished 2nd overall in Super Taikyu in 2001. More history of the vehicle is in the article about this car. As far as inexperience goes. Everyone is a rookie sometime. There have been a couple of rookies that have done well at World Challenge. |
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03-17-2005, 05:28 PM | #111 | ||
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So then a rookie cant race in this series until he gets "years of experience"? |
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Anyway, I'm not trying to be negative. I hope Igor is successful and if I can aid him I'll do that. |
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Re: 500 Horsepower 2001 Nissan Skyline GT-R N1 to Make Speed World Challenge Debut
Winning T1 in the SoCal region (althought right now T1 fields are almost non-existant in SoCal) and having experience in the 355 Challenge series is a far cry from where Igor is at. Many times when you hear the term rookie used it is rather ludicrous. Like in touring car in 2004 Bob Endicott was competing for ROY, but only cause it was his first year in WC. If BMW's hotshoe in the BTCC, Andy Priaulx came to Speed WC he'd be considered a rookie.
There's a double regional at Buttonwillow this weekend...but I'm assuming he doesn't have his regional license yet. Are you even SCCA members yet? Which reminds me, you do know that Igor will need to complete a bunch of national level races to even qualify for the pro-license required for WC. And before he can get a national license to compete in national events he needs to get a novice-license and then compete 4 regional races. Maybe I'll volunteer to instruct at Igor's SCCA super-school (required to get the novice license). The best route would be to purchase a spec-miata to compete in for the rest of the season. |
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03-18-2005, 07:47 AM | #116 | |
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Thank you to everyone for their input. We are discussing each post among ourselves. We appreciate the advice from people with experience.
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03-18-2005, 11:52 AM | #117 | ||
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As far as the IQ, you are missing my point. Don't key in on the fact that he is just a smart kid, he has a plan, he has a team, and the kids has some skills, not necessarily on the race course yet, but with practise it will come. As for the way he is going about it, speculation on my parts, it has to do with the car.
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03-18-2005, 05:01 PM | #120 | ||
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Ignorance is bliss. That has to be one of the most uniformed quotes I have seen posted on the internet, way to go 98.
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