You might be a racer if...

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bernie
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Fahrzeug(e): MGA 1958
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You might be a racer if...

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Beitrag von bernie » 6. Sep 2016, 13:47

viel Spaß beim Abhaken
Bernie


- You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.
- When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.
- You change engine oil every other week.
- Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.
- You walk proper lines through the grocery store.
- You bought a race car before buying a house.
- You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house.
- You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!
- The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance):
1. 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop.
2. Outside parking for 6 cars, a motorhome, a crew cab dualie, a 28'enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
3. 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
4. A grease pit.
5. Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.
6. Deaf neighbors.
7. Across the street from a paint and body shop.
8. Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property somewhere -or- hookups for the motorhome.
- You measure all family acquisitions in terms of the number of race tires that could have been purchased.
- You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe, while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.
- You have enough spare parts to build another car.
- More than one racer supply house recognizes your voice and greets you by name when you call.
- You think the last line of the national anthem is: "Racers, start your engines!"
- You're registered for wedding gifts at Race'n'Rally.
- Your Christmas list begins with another set of BFG R1s and Pauter rods and your 'significant other' knows what they are.
- You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.
- Your reading material in your bathroom consists of auto parts and racing supply catalogs, several books written by famous drivers, .... and 400 car magazines, none of which have centerfolds.
- People know you by your class letter, car number, and car color.
- Your friends don't recognize you without a helmet and driver's suit.
- Your family remembers your hair color as "grease".
- You plan your wedding around the race schedule.
- You remember the dates and details of every race you've ever been in, but can't remember your phone number.
- Your family brings the couch into the garage so they can spend some time with you.
- A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, "Synthetic or organic?" and they reply, "Vegetable or corn."
- You refer to the corner down the street from your house as "Turn One."
- Everywhere you go, you try to find the fastest line through the turn.
- You always do a toe & heel downshift
- You can't stand understeer.
- You always want to change something in your street car to make it handle better.
- You think that traction control and ABS are for those who can't drive.
- The local police and state Highway Patrol have a picture of your car taped to their dashboard.
- Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have timeslips.
- You would choose a rollbar over air conditioning if it were an option.
- You enjoy driving through wet, empty parking lots and using the emergency brake to kick the back end out.
- You consider the redline a "conservative suggestion" and the rev limiter "a fun limiter"
- You own five cars and only one of them is street legal.
- You know the "racing line" of every turn in your daily commute, including your alternate routes, and practice hitting them every day.
- You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles.

MBL546E

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Beitrag von MBL546E » 6. Sep 2016, 14:51

bernie hat geschrieben: - You sit in your race car in a dark garage and make car noises and shift and practice your heel and toe,
while waiting for your motor to get back from the machine shop.
- You think the last line of the national anthem is: "Racers, start your engines!"
- Your reading material in your bathroom consists of auto parts and racing supply catalogs, several
books written by famous drivers, .... and 400 car magazines, none of which have centerfolds.
- You refer to the corner down the street from your house as "Turn One."
- Everywhere you go, you try to find the fastest line through the turn.
- You always do a toe & heel downshift
- You can't stand understeer.
- You think that traction control and ABS are for those who can't drive.
- You would choose a rollbar over air conditioning if it were an option.
....ach wie schön.......! :mrgreen:

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Beitrag von Ralph 7H » 6. Sep 2016, 18:41

... und ich hatte mal eine Zeit, in der ich (und viele Bekannte von mir meinten das wohl auch) glaubte irgend wie daneben zu sein. Aber das schien nur auf den ersten Blick so. Und heute... Ist es eigentlich bedenklich wenn ich bei fast 3/4 der Fragen/Überschriften aus eigener Erfahrung nicken muss? Einiges, was da so aufgeführt ist, können auch einige andere hier unterschreiben... Wo ist jetzt mein Stift? :wink: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :D

Safety Fast !

Ralph

MBL546E

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Beitrag von MBL546E » 6. Sep 2016, 22:13

Ralph 7H hat geschrieben:Ist es eigentlich bedenklich wenn ich bei fast 3/4 der Fragen/Überschriften aus eigener Erfahrung nicken muss?
Nicht doch Ralph, es ist Voraussetzung dafür wenn man etwas verstrahlt sein will. Ich hab´weiter oben auch nur die besten und wichtigsten rausgesucht...... :mrgreen:

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