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JuicyGirl's
First Race Weekend
Long
time coming, Juicy Girl’s first race weekend:
Almost
nine years to the day after my first inquiry into Skip Barber race
series I finished my first race weekend. Many if not most of my fellow
Team Juicy members have felt the exhilaration of crossing the finish
line under the checkered flag. It’s a feeling so unbelievable
that one must experience it for oneself to truly understand. I now
know exactly what the rest of you feel each and every time you race.
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Barber
Dodge Pro Cars???
I
heard that all of the BDPS cars are for sale? Is there any SCCA class
that they might qualify for? Someone told me they might be able to
run regional Atlantic, but would probably be too slow to be worth it.
How much are they asking for them anyway? Does anyone know? How about
if someone bought the whole lot of them? Does it inlcude the engines,
or just the chassis? Just curious...
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Sebring
2005 Group Picture - Click on Picture for Full Size Image
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Sebring,
Sebring, Sebring... Best Weekend Ever?
This
weekend, 75 racers from the Southern, Western, Master's Nationals
and Eastern Series descended upon the town of Sebring FL and created
the biggest Skippy weekend in 3+ years. In return, Sebring brought
us all the most glorious weather and Skip Barber delivered the best
racing experience anywhere.
Todd,
Steve and all of the Skippy guys did an amazing job handling so many
groups and so many races, especially considering how many cars we
wrecked (ahem..). Thank you for everything you guys do. It was also
great to see so many new racers there, and to see how much fun they
had. I think Skippy just found itself a whole bunch of newly addicted
customers.
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Come
BEAT Matt Franc! (at Sebring) -
by Matt Franc
No
not with a baseball bat, nor with his Egbar the dragon suit, with
the SBRS Computer Car!
On
Saturday, February 19th, the King of Sebring, Matt “5&counting” Franc
has kicked in the money (and ego) to reserve the computer car for
a one on 75-grudge match. Huge prizes (seat time, clothing, whips,
chains, etc.) will be awarded to almost anyone who can beat Matt’s
target lap. Here’s how it will work:
Matt
will lay down a target time Saturday morning and if anyone can do
a lap (recorded by the computer car) that is better than his, they
win!...
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East
Invades South (Sebring Race Weekend) -
by David Casey
OK,
back to reality, i.e. Skippy Racing. Let's get a group of eastern
series TJR drivers and kick some southern butt @ Sebring, 2/18 -
2/20. I'm in, who else. Never raced there, but in certainly looks
picturesque (gag me). February, sunny and 80 degrees, a nice primer
to our season...
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Team
Juicy Boys Take on Daytona -
by Michael Auriemma
So
it all began with Spencer's TJR.com post offering "rides" in
his Grand Am Cup car. It took me about 3 minutes to type him an email
asking for details.
The
story is, Spencer has 2 seats. One in the Rolex series (including
the 24H of Daytona) and one in Grand Am Cup, the support series to
Rolex. His Cup team had 2 cars last year, and will start this season
with 4 cars. Hence the need for warm bodies (with American Express
cards) to fill seats. Team owner Mike Pickett is a super guy and
easy to get along with. In my first conversation with him, he invited
me to come test with the team in Daytona. It took me about 3 minutes
to pack my bag!...
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I
am in Fat City! -
by JCraige
Just
had all 10 NASCAR Race for the Cup cars and drivers pull up in a
line and park right outside my window on Park Ave. Incredible sight.
Every window in the buildings nearby if full of faces and the street
was jammed with people. Great sight. Cars are still there right now.
Nice and loud when they pulled up.
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Competition
to Benefit the Mechanic's Fun - Nations Cup Race of Champions -
TGoodhart wins and we raise One Thousand Bucks!
At
$50 per entry, the 'pick the winners' of the Race of Champions Nation's
Cup competition was for the benefit of the Mechanic's Fund, a trully
worthy cause. The event, which was AWESOME, was a multi-discipline
racing event set in Paris on Saturday December 4th. Michael Schumacher,
Sebastian Loeb, Jimmie Johnson and Marcus Gronholm, with 12 other
awesome drivers, represented themselves in an Individual Competition,
and their country in the Team Competition, driving Ferrari 360 Modena
Challenge cars, ROC Cars and Citroen Xsara WRC & Peugeot 307
WRC rally cars...
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Great
Weekend at Slippery Point -
by Matt Varsha
It
was an interesting weekend in terms of weather at Summit Point for
the 3rd and 4th rounds of the southern series. Friday started out
wet and very cold, which was not a good combo. Most people ran one
session in order to save their 2nd and 3rd sessions for Saturday,
when there was no rain forecast. I must have the record for most
spins in a practice session. I spun, or went straight in some cases,
4 times in three laps, the first three laps for that matter. Everybody
else had their head on straight for the most part, and there were
no big offs, probably because everyone knew that it wasn't supposed
to rain the rest of the weekend. So Friday was prettty much just
a day for fun...
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Expert
Class or Not? -
by Bill Hammer
A
quick update on a conversation I had recently with Todd Snyder. I
was asking whether next season there would be an expert class. The
short answer is that no decision has been made yet. Todd is disinclined
to have an expert class. He would just have championship and sportsman.
I think that the problems created with scoring the masters group
as well as the problems created when some experts raced in championship
class as part of a double weekend or whatever is what leads him to
this conclusion. On the other hand Divina is inclined to have the
expert class again. By the way, in the South and West this season,
there is only sportsman and championship, no expert. Todd and Divina
will be making their decision after the new year...
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John
Edwards wins Red Bull Driver Search
Skip
Barber Racing Series driver John Edwards, from Little Rock, Arkansas
has been selected as the winner in the 2004 Red Bull Driver Search
after being selected in the final round, held at the Autodromo Fernanda
Pires Da Silva circuit in Estoril, Portugal. Edwards, who is all
of thirteen years old, impressed the Red Bull judges with his dedication
and potential after two days of fitness training at the Red Bull
Diagnostics & Training Center in Thalgau, Austria and testing
in Alan Docking Racing-prepared Formula 3 cars on the former Formula
1 race circuit...
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Sid
Brenner's 2004 Eastern Series Banquet Video
If you missed the
Banquet, you've got to see this video. The man is a jewel.
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Great
Final Weekend at Lime Rock Park -
Peter Ludwig & Various
On
October 8th and 9th, all of the Eastern Series participants came
together at the hallowed grounds of Lime Rock Park in Northeastern
Connecticut to decide who the champions would be in the Skip Barber
Racing Series Formula Dodge Eastern Series. The racing was awesome,
the Banquet was a blast and the Golf Outing topped it all off. What
an amazing weekend. Yes, another one...!
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Eastern
Series Championship Finale Previews
While
Matt Franc may have already been crowned the as the Overall and Championship
Class winner of the Skip Barber Formula Dodge Eastern Race Series,
the Master's, Expert and Sportsman Classes are all still wide open
and look to be tightly fought. This weekend's Lime Rock Finale is
always the most highly anticipated and exciting races of the year,
and looks set to decide who's going to win and fill out the remaining
posotions in each division.
Click
here for the Championship Class Preview - Expert
Class Preview - Master's
Class Preview - Race
Groups as Posted
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Watkins
Glen Race Weekend - WOW!
What
an awesome, awesome weekend! And I was only there for less than a
third of it. Imagine how much fun everyone else had who arrived on
Wednesday. There was perfect weather, an incredible racetrack, a
seemingly endless supply of beautiful cars (especially the new blue
ones..) and big groups of drivers that had a blast hanging out and
racing with each other (cleanly). Skip Barber, thank you for a job
very well done. The preparation was great, the staff was on fine
form and smiles were the only things I saw, even though us Bozos
destroyed more than a few of your cars...
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Vinay
Basaravaja and Skip Barber on SpeedTV's Chinese F1 Broadcast
Team
Juicy member Vin got some great airtime Saturday night during the
F1 race, with a big mention of him being the first American race
winner on the Shanghai circuit. Skippy also got a nice little mention
there. Patterson could have made it too, if that little TSOAB didn't
keep fuggin with him in this weekend's Formula BMW support race.
He still kicked some serious butt.
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On
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! (Oct. 10, after the Eastern Region Oct. 7-8-9
finale at Lime Rock Park), Aaron Hollander has given us the greenlight
to host a Race Series Golf Tournament at nearby Silo Ridge Country
Club. Clearly, since you guys and gals can't beat the instructors
on the race course, we're going to give you a shot on the golf course...
(Tournament
and Invitation from Skip Barber)
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Thursday,
September 09, 2004 By RUDY MILLER of The Express-Times
EASTON
-- Race-car driving legend Michael Andretti filed for divorce Tuesday
in Northampton County Court. The Bushkill Township man accuses his
wife, Leslie Andretti, of causing their marriage to become "irretrievably
broken," according to the filing...
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New
Lime Rock Park 'Backwards Layout' Track Map Revealed -
by Donald MacDonald
Hop
Baker, owner of the Lyme Tick Trailer and Amusement Park is pleased
to throw his full support behind the new Eastern Series Race Series
announced earlier this week by Skippy Race Director, Mr. Thomas "Carr" Glider.
Mr. Baker is quoted as saying, "I think the new format announced
by the Skippy people is a wonderful idea and will give them my full
support for the upcoming event!" Also at today's press conference,
Mr. Otto Butcher, Hop Baker's track manager geefully announced that
any plans to repave the race course have now been put on hold "indefinitely,
if not longer..." pending the new October event's crash damage
tally.
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An
Open Letter to Skip Barber Regarding HANS devices - Please Vote
on Poll & Give Feedback
The
HANS device has now become a mandatory safety requirement in all
major racing series, from NASCAR to both Indycar series, from Formula
Mazda to Formula BMW, and as of July 1st every FIA sanctioned event
from WRC to DTM to Formula 1. While our Skip Barber cars may not
achieve the top or average speeds of any of those series, our cars
are still fast enough to get us into serious trouble. In a crash,
sometimes our cars are slowed from high speeds (70-140mph) down to
0 mph in 6 feet or less, as has been witnessed numerous times recently
at Lime Rock, Barber Park etc. The G forces generated by these impacts
are really high, whether or not the car absorbs a lot of the impact.
I'm really concerned that few if any of the
drivers have the physical strength to support
their heads under such loads. I've seen the
videos
on Basal Skull Fractures. If you have too, I think you would also be
very concerned. I
think we all have a responsibility to look out for and protect each other.
I believe in the HANS device and that one day it will save one of us.
It's really important that you voice your opinions and thoughts on this
matter either way. Please submit your vote as well as replying with your
thoughts.
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As
you know those of us with true dedication made it to Germany last
week in order to finally conquer the greatest track of all. It was
an honor and a pleasure at the same time to witness how Sy dominated
the track and finally succeeded to unlock all its inner secrets.
Who here has not heard of the famous "Carousell" with its
rugged banked concrete banks? Ever wanted to know how to master it?
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I
would like to ask the race-educated audience of the forum to please
watch the linked video and vote in the poll. The scene plays in Alabama,
approaching the high speed right hand turn number 7. The video is
slowed to frame-by-frame in the decisive moments.
The two racers are to remain anonymous so that
your vote won't be biased by "sympathies" (or
the lack thereof)...
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Team
Juicy Racing members propose new rules of conduct and behavior to
ensure a championship trophy for one of it's members in 2004...
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Priceless...
Price
of Super Unleaded in Sharon, CT:$2.24 |
Cost
of Race Weekend on the Hammer/ex-Ludwig Scale:$500 |
Driving
off with the Nozzle still in the car... |
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Due
to my incredibly awful (which means good on the Juicy scale) and
pathetic driving display in Virgina, I'm still in the lead. But in
one race Maurice almost got himself to the top of the list. Is it
possible that at Temblant, in his only other race scheduled for this
year, he could pull off another bone-head move and win the whole
thing? I also just want to re-iterate how sad and boring we all were
(other than Mo, that is) at Lime Rock. Let's try and make a better
show of it in Alabama..
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Three
days of blue skies, warm weather, excellent food, good friends, and
a Sunday afternoon "walk around the park" to end what was
a perfect weekend. We even got in some track time of our own at Grand
Prix Karting of Quebec. There
is nothing like the sound of an F1 car in the morning. Especially
when you're standing twenty feet away as it brakes from 180mph for
a 35 mph harpin and then blasts away in a blur of color in the opposite
direction as quickly as it had arrived...
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Drivers
Talk, BF Goodrich Listens
We
just got the word on tires from B.F. Goodrich. In response to the
issues we've been having with the new Race School/Series tire, starting
with the next rounds of the Eastern and Midwestern Race Series, we
are returning to slicks. The new tire, the B.F. Goodrich G-Force,
is based on the Michelin Pilot CS slick from previous years, but
is a new tire with BFG branding on it...
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Southern
Series Championship Finale - Brains Not Included
Running
fast & furious, on March 27th & 28th our esteemed fellow
Team Juicy racers attacked the 24 Hour Course at the world renowned
Daytona International Speedway. We showed our speed, our courage
and also our complete lack of common sense... (UPDATED: Pictures
Here)
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Man
Causes Big Crash - Somewhere - and Gets His GF P-D off
FT.
LEE, N.J. (Apr. 3) - Race car driver Walter Irvine, 22, of Lakeville,
Conn., was involved in a near-fatal incident Saturday evening as he
backed his girlfriend's 2004 Range Rover Freelander into another car
-- or maybe it was a fire hydrant...
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New
Skippy Girl Ashlei Coming to the Eastern Series
Ashlei
is joining the already lovely crew of young ladies at Skip Barber's
timining/scoring and hospitality department...
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The
Old and the Restless - Geriatric Juicies take on Daytona -by
Mark Patterson
Veteran
Skip Barber antiques, Jim Victor, Dario Cioti and Mark Patterson,
all well over 50, talked pro driver Peter Argetsinger into racing
the mighty Daytona 24 Hour Grand Am Rolex Race, and in a fit of remorse,
included John Pew as the 5th driver, despite his youthful 47 years
of age. We took the #46 bright yellow Corvette (white on race day),
which has more output and noise than Dario after a good Italian meal.
We ran in the SGS class, and watched our mirrors as a lot of GTs
and DPs screamed by at 185-190 mph...
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'Yes
Sir, Officer' or 'Please Don't Impound my Turbo' --by
Juicy Sue
2:05
am. 1st Av and 96th Street in Manhattan. On the way home from Pork
Chop Willie's Fabulous Show! Pulling away from the gas pump. Michael
Auriemma reaches for a button on the dashboard of the 911 and presses
it right before pulling onto First Avenue. Sue, his trusting wife,
remarks, "What did you just do?" Michael responds, "Just
turned off the traction control...."
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Skip
Barber Announces New Low Cost Race Series --
by Dick Lippert & Doug Harrison
Walter
Irvine of Skip Barber Racing announced "In our efforts to bring
the thrill of racing to a wide audience, we have introduced a new
program that aspiring drivers can attend for only $29.95..."
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Dario
Cioti Passes IRL Rookie Test -- by
AutoSport writers Dick Lippert & Doug Harrison
American
Formula Dodge veteran Dario Cioti completed his Indy Racing League
Rookie test at the Texas Motor Speedway. The 47-year-old completed
80 laps, recording an unofficial best average speed of 216.08 mph...
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Preview
- The Intentional Off-Road Challenge....4-Off's A Must --
by Walter Irvine
UPDATED -
From M Auriemma on Jan 26th: "Lots of you have been asking me
about putting together a 'Serious' 4-wheeling weekend. Ask and you
shall recieve!" Excellent, I have a new Land Rover...
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Team
Juicy Racers Star (and Crash) on Discovery Channel --
by Jim Craige
On
January 11th, Discovery Channel's 'Macho Monuments' aired what must
be considered one of the most compelling documentaries of this new
Millenium, revealing the true courage and brevity of our fellow racers.
It also debunks one of the most hardened and established myths in
racing: That it's impossible to spin on a straight...
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Anatomy
of a Crash - by Michael Auriemma
As
Gerardo Bonilla said in Macho Monuments, a crash is usually the result
of 3-4 compounding errors. If you catch the 1st, you can limit the
extent of the damage (and humiliation). In the following video, you
can see a range of errors committed by one of Team Juicy's drivers.
See how many you can pick up...
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Fab
Four Complete Record 11 Races at F1 Boston --by
Donald MacDonald
Off-season
hath no meaning for some racers, as the four horsemen of Team Juicy
completed a facility record 11 races on December 29th....
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Laguna
Seca 12/13/03 - by
Martin Birkmann
Four
of the bravest racers to be found in the Eastern Series embarked
to Laguna Seca, way out West, determined not to let the silly nor
the cold season distract them from their path. Alex, Sy, Francois
and myself even succeeded in luring our significant others (Alex,
I heard something about an upcoming engagement?) to the venue. The
fact that the bribery included excessive spa treatments and opulent
dinners needs to be elaborated on another time. Because this is all
about the racing, right?...
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1st
Annual Team Juicy Turkey Day Shoot(out) --by
Donald MacDonald
On
November 28th this past fall, Team Juicy made the pilgrimage to Boston
for the first annual Turkey Day Shoot(out). The event was held at
F1 Boston track in Braintree, MA, a short distance from the site
of the original Pilgrim landing at Plymouth Rock. Whether a function
of the poor training of the F1 Boston track staff or an off season
case of Red Mist, the early rounds of the day’s events were
fraught with needless penalties and crashes all around....
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Significant
Others --by
Donald MacDonald
With
an eye (if not a lecherous glare) to those of the opposite sex who
know better and put up with us anyway, Team Juicy presents the following
monthly forum for the better looking half of our species.
This month’s forum is based on a December 2003 issue of the
British racing mag, Formula 1 which published an article titled,
HEAD CASES
Sensations Seekers or Dangerous Psychopaths who want to have sex with
their mothers....
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'Get
out of my way, you little s--t' - by
Bill Hammer
So,
I'm visiting my parents over Thanksgiving weekend in North Carolina.
There's this miniature golf place with kiddy go karts. Kinda fun
to do with my son. You don't ever have to brake or even lift, but
you slide pretty good at the turn at the bottom of the hill. Anyway,
my son and I are out on the course and so is another father with
his nine year old....
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About
Team Juicy Racing
Team
Juicy Racing is a group of die-hard racers dedicated to getting
ahead at all costs- on the track or off - even if it means running
9 year old kids off the track. Our mascot is... well if you don't
already know, we just can't tell you.
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