Alumni Reunion - Page 2 - Team Juicy Racing's Racing School and Race Series Forums

gurl rcr · #51 12-19-2008

OMG ! I miss all you guys SO MUCH !! Pat Daly called me yesterday, wondering if we were going to the reunion. I suppose we could make it...if we win lotto. I know Mur'd love to and I'd just be happy seeing everyone again. We're headed to Sebring next week (on the way to see the grandson) and I can't wait to hear what Todd's cooking up for this. Love you all...

rgreist · #52 12-20-2008

School cars: Yes.

Anything else: No.

ML Peter Ludwig · #53 12-21-2008

Something tells me there will not be enough cars for this group...

For sure not enough cars after....

We better be group 1

sal · #54 12-28-2008

Im thinking ALL past champions should get a free entry into the race weekend.Steve Levinsohn
87 Florida Champion

Yarab · #55 12-28-2008

Good Luck with that !!
Let me how it works out for ya

skippy needs to give us some format info. I signed up for the weekend, but no info from the top ! Hopefully they can do something
Ron.
Anybody interested in going to the 24 let me know.

wally · #56 01-03-2009

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Originally Posted by John Greist

Hey, Divina and Wally know how to shift, so they can join the School Car contingent and resume their too long interrupted duel. Add others who shift and the full fleets or RTs and School Cars could run, probably approaching 40 cars. We ran School Cars with RTs at Sebring in Nov 2003. JP and BW should test the School Cars as in the good old days - and race them too!

Just saw this thread. I'm used to going 9 knots now with a occasional drive in a rental car at 35 mph. So, I'd be pretty rusty...... however, I can still beat Divina!

badgersid · #57 01-05-2009

WALLY did i mention how much i hate you and your way of life,

get back here and be a man. get a real job that will prove your net worth.

read the above as I MISS YOU AND WISH I WERE THERE

badgersid · #58 01-05-2009

SEE YOU IN MARCH. I HAVE MY BORAT SLING

rgreist · #59 01-06-2009

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Originally Posted by badgersid

SEE YOU IN MARCH. I HAVE MY BORAT SLING

I like! Jegshemash!

thomas · #60 01-06-2009

I'll be at the event...although I'm theoretically not 'alumni'...

hmm...and a DP test? Wow this will be a race.

cdh · #61 01-08-2009

Quentin sent this DVD in a while back, thought now was a good time to get some of it online. Image quality so-so, lots of interference from engine, but oddly the audio is very good. Matt Franc at the wheel, interesting how he's able to occasionally Hyperspace around the track with his speed shifts

Guess that's where he got the nick name....ok ok

Skip Barber Race, Sebring February 19, 2000 - school cars, the Scare Pin, etc.
Alumni Hazz Matt Hyper Harry Franc, Quentin Wahl (white car) and Scott Basinger (red)

Longer version with more race action

- Video - 4:55

and the grand finale short version

- Video - 1:22

Thanks for the video Quentin

dalyduo · #62 01-10-2009

Yipes!

Nice race action... Unexpected ending.

Mopar92 · #63 01-11-2009

Hey BadgerSid..... you are smart enough to know there is a front and a back to those slings?

badgersid · #64 01-13-2009

WATTS i have no filling either way

OLDMAN · #65 01-21-2009

Hey Kids:
I'll be in the Sebring area Wednesday the 11th and Thursday the 12th of February. Is anyone interested in doing dinner and/or a couple of drinks?

Bob

cdh · #66 02-02-2009

Something has come up I can't pass on so I have cancelled out of Sebring

Have fun all

JuicyGirl · #67 02-02-2009

I missed you at Daytona and now you are baling on Sebring. darn!

dalyduo · #68 02-10-2009

Sebring reunion week is here so it's time to wake this thread back up.

Believe we have John Pew, Dr. Mike, Ron Yarab, Peter Tucker, Tom Goodhart, Michael Auriemma, perhaps Murray Marden, maybe Quentin or Lugnuts? Can't imagine Dom not being there. Ohh and the Griests will be driving school cars on the skid pad and in the parking lot.

Where's John Mayes hiding? Did anyone call Jimmy Locke?

CDH, Dick Lippert, Bill Hammer and I won't be there.

It's breakin' my heart but know a good time will be had by those in attendance.

Please keep us informed with posts, pictures and videos of the action.

dlippert · #69 02-10-2009

Sorry I can't be there but, as I expected, I need to be in Phoenix.

tom goodhart · #70 02-10-2009

DD, I wish I could be there, but the racing account is empty for now

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Hope the rest of you all have fun!

cheekychica · #71 02-11-2009

So to the people who will be there:

Do you know what day and time the big race is happening? Or are you getting your own group for the whole weekend? I'm an hour north, and if I make it down, I'd love to see you guys actually racing.

John Greist · #72 02-14-2009

Sorry to miss the weekend and especially Race 1. The Franc-Duerson show must have been intense at the front, but Chris coming from 7th to 3rd only 7 seconds back is intriguing for tomorrow.

Many stories to tell to those of us at a distance.

cdh · #73 02-15-2009

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Originally Posted by John Greist

Sorry to miss the weekend and especially Race 1. The Franc-Duerson show must have been intense at the front, but Chris coming from 7th to 3rd only 7 seconds back is intriguing for tomorrow. Many stories to tell to those of us at a distance.

Yes John, from results it appears there was another epic Duerson / Hazzmat battle, lead changes in later laps with Matt edging out Craig by a tiny margin at the stripe, great stuff

So who was playing the part of Peter Dannan? Jordan perhaps? Looks like fun for sure.

Yarab · #74 02-15-2009

Don't know if all of you Skippy followers heard that European racing sensation Peter Dannan made his only North American appearance this weekend at Sebring. As you know he always puts on quite the show. He started last on the grid do to a mechanical in the alumni group and worked his way to the front in 2 laps on both Sat and Sunday. Being the class act that he is on Sat., he saw a bird with a broken wing in the hairpin and parked his race car and resuced the bird and performed wing surgery on the spot.( the little guy is doing fine and will be flying in no time.)What an exhibition. He took little Johnny Edwards under his wing for the weekend. The two were inseperable and I'm sure John-John is a better man for it. From the time he flew in on his private jet ", he created quite the buzz around Sebring, even taking part in the 12 hrs of Sebring bike race under an assumed name. WOW, what a weekend ! Full results to follow

ML Peter Ludwig · #75 02-16-2009

Thanks to everyone that came to the Alumni event this past weekend!! Great weather, great driving and great stories were on-hand. Congrats to Matt Francfurter for beating Craig for the first time in his career, not once but twice... Now that you only weigh 143lbs. your unstoppable man!!! Let's have dinner in NY soon to get some meat back on your bones....

All the best to everyone, I can't wait for the next one

ML Peter Ludwig · #76 02-16-2009

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Originally Posted by cdh

So who was playing the part of Peter Dannan? Jordan perhaps? Looks like fun for sure.

Little John Edwards who is not so little anymore but even quicker..

5&counting · #77 02-16-2009

I weigh 148... trying to get back to 155.
It was not the first time I beat Craig... However he won most of them at head to head competition.

Great to see everyone also.

Awesome having some many of the gang back.

Lets do it again soon...! Since all my credits are used up i will be starting at the back like BoBo and Peter dannan.

Yarab · #78 02-16-2009

Next time I say we weight the cars so that they are all even, then we'll see what happens to those lap times !! Next race I'll try to be down to 233. I heard that engine cryin'

every time I would exit the hairpin.
I guess that's why they invented those 500HP dirt cars !

Ron

John Greist · #79 02-16-2009

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Originally Posted by 5&counting

I weigh 148...

Matt, Hope you've not been ill and had to quit drinking which would explain your large weight loss.

As others observe, two reasons men of a certain age lose weight are a new girl friend or to go faster in their race car - both very expensive per pound.

Slowhands · #80 02-16-2009

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Originally Posted by John Greist

As others observe, two reasons men of a certain age lose weight are a new girl friend or to go faster in their race car - both very expensive per pound.

And yet, quite effective. Says something profound about our psychological makeup, doesn't it? Of which you are the acknowledged expert, John.

jp56 · #81 02-16-2009

It was great seeing old friends racers and crew alike.It was cool to meet some new victims, I mean racers, as well.. I had a great time. Great job done by the staff at Skip..I hope this becomes an annual event.. I'll be back.

Michael Edwards · #82 02-16-2009

Really enjoyed getting back together with the guys. Great to see all. Even laughed about getting mauled in turn 17 by Auriemma,,, after he finally concluded that he was to blame for running over my right rear tire and getting launched.... Hey Michael, yes you do brake for 17 ..... or at least I do,,,, and yes the video did show that it was not just a "racing incident".... thanks for believing the camera, even if the reality was a bit fuzzy in the red mist of battle.... really wish you or marino would post the video,,, i would love to see...

John Greist · #83 02-16-2009

Please do post. We'd all love to see any video.

Was there a camera or cameras on Matt's and Craig's cars? What a school that must have been.

PT Cruiser · #84 02-16-2009

Really sorry I had to back out of this event at the last minute due to a shingles outbreak on my face that has fused my right eye closed for the last three weeks. While I no longer look like a one man leper colony, I am still too incapacitated to drive my street car, not to mention an R/T 2000.

Looking over the entry list, it really sucks to have missed the weekend . . . . a LOT of old friends there I really would have like to have seen.

Glad everyone who attended had fun.

John Greist · #85 02-17-2009

Ouch Peter. Chicken pox when we were kids was much easier. Glad you're mending.

cdh · #86 02-17-2009

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Originally Posted by John Greist

Please do post. We'd all love to see any video.

yes - video please - would make an interesting split screen juxtapostion to
Hazzmatt and Quentin's interpretation of Turn 17 entry

(short video from post #61 above).

Dr Mike, no cam on your car?

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Originally Posted by John Greist

Ouch Peter. Chicken pox when we were kids was much easier. Glad you're mending.

ditto, glad you are on the mend PT, sucks, feel better pal.

GriffDogRacer · #87 02-17-2009

It was great to be a part of this event... if only on the fringes. The alumni races were a hoot to watch (and hear) and it was nice to meet many TJRs and put a faces with names.

Jim Pace · #88 02-17-2009

This was a LARGE time with all these friends getting together. Congrats to Matt Franc for doing what needed to be done, twice! Great time by most everyone there.
A huge attaboy goes to Danicng Don for getting and keeping the ball rolling on this one.
Glad I was there.
JP

donv · #89 05-09-2009

When is this or is it already overy?? I will try the olld bones again at the Glen, has been Nov 07 the last time. Welcome a new ol grandmaster to the grid.

See you there
dionv

donv · #90 05-09-2009

Sure sorry I missed it mabe next one, Jim will you be in the Gleh?

donv

donv · #91 05-09-2009

Not you still around to bust balls SiD, I'll never survive the weekend

Still look forward to seeng you anyway

DONV

dalyduo · #92 05-09-2009

Hi Don,
I believe both JP and Sid will be at the Glen. Looking forward to seeing you there.

John Greist · #93 05-09-2009

Also believe JP will be at the Glen - at Spa now. Hope Sid will too. Wish I could - a favorite track - and with Don resuming, who knows what will happen next.