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Do you like race cars?

My better half is a track marshal ...

Posted - March 3, 2019
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  • 10512
    I really like watching dragster racing find it cool how fast they get off the line and the chute deploying at the end is cool to watch too. Cheers!
      March 3, 2019 9:02 PM MST
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  • 52934

    I've never been a fan.

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      March 3, 2019 9:12 PM MST
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  • 14795
    How strange.....and there was me thinking that you put your Spin on everything on the Mug.....Its 8am here in Blighty and T'wirly to say more or get in a flap about or even shoot the breeze with you.... :)D 
      March 4, 2019 1:13 AM MST
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  • 46117
    No.   I appreciate it but I don't go there timewise.  Meaning taking time to do anything race car 






      March 3, 2019 9:41 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Yes I like to race cars ,but with my little legs and High Heels mostly they always win if I don't cheat  :( 
      March 4, 2019 1:07 AM MST
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  • 5835
    No, I demand equality cars!
      March 4, 2019 5:03 AM MST
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  • 6988
    Not so much into race cars as my relatives ------------  My mother's cousins' sons are Fred and Jim Linder - former sprint car champs. Chad Kemenah's sister is married to my wife's brother. Me? I'm a motorcycle nut. 
      March 4, 2019 6:44 AM MST
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  • 1305

    Not on the track, but I do like to put my foot down off the traffic lights.  My other half has raced in the historic cars, but we prefer the superbikes, I bet being a marshal is a great job.

      March 4, 2019 8:48 AM MST
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  • 1893
    Never been a fan, I have better things to waste my time on.  Now some of the ones in a Museum are sort of nice, the Ferrari Museum is a great bit of trivia along with the Alpha Romeo.

    Sitting for hours watching things go around in a circle is like another day of talking to New YORKERS IN A CONFERENCE ROOM.  Boring as all get out.
      March 4, 2019 11:13 AM MST
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  • 16240
    That's why touring cars are a lot more interesting than NASCAR. Far more complex tracks.
      March 8, 2019 6:29 AM MST
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  • 1893
    Still find that boring as all get out, sorry just not my thing
      March 8, 2019 6:40 AM MST
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  • 16240
    All good, I prefer bikes myself. Adelaide's race track is a street circuit though, so it is kinda fun to see cars hurtling at 200mph on streets I have to crawl along at 30.
    My better half is a petrolhead, she loves them so she's a track marshal - which means she gets a few free tickets to give away. The after race concerts are sometimes worth going to, particularly when retro bands are on. I've seen KISS, Mötley Crüe, Icehouse, Mondo Rock, Cold Chisel, The Sweet, Doobie Bros, Status Quo ...
      March 8, 2019 6:48 AM MST
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  • 1893
    We will agree the after race parties and concerts can be fun.  They can also be somewhat expensive.  Since my company was one of the Sponsors for the F1 races in Singapore we went to the requisite events - we did not watch the race.  Here is the  Ferrari Museum in Italy my way to see race cars.  They even have a test track if you have the money to drive one
      March 8, 2019 7:05 AM MST
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  • 44225
    I watch one race a year. The Daytona 500. I lived there the year they opened the track.
      March 4, 2019 1:00 PM MST
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  • 6988
    The beach course?
      March 8, 2019 6:41 AM MST
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  • 44225
    I was only seven, the last time the ran the beach course. The following year they opened the track as we know it.
      March 8, 2019 7:42 AM MST
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  • Not really .. but my first car was a new 1968 Camaro with a 327 - 8 in it!  I raced that thing around a lot.  :)

    My best friend lives near the Indianapolis raceway ... so we'll be going to the Indy 500 in the future, I'm sure.
      March 8, 2019 6:43 AM MST
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