You might be a racer if...
Verfasst: 6. Sep 2016, 13:47
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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.
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.