I make cars go fast and stuff.

[Tokzic]

I don't know exactly how many of you know this (probably a few, I mention it every now and then) but I race go-carts competitively (as opposed to racing not competitively rite) and have been for about a year and a half now. Last year, I really wasn't that great. By about halfway through, I was starting to show some skill, but the favourite thing the officials like to tell you is that "racing isn't fair", and bad runs of luck and weather made finishing in third place out of about twelve people a miracle. By the end though, I was pretty good, pulling third to second place finishes consistantly.

I don't know what happened in between time, but this year, I rock. There have been six races this year. I have placed first in all of them. Last race, the owner of the track joined in our race. He passed everyone extremely quickly, including me, putting me in fourth. But then I passed everyone and came out in first, then was battling the owner for the entire race and leaving everyone else in the dust. I won that race. Then this week, in a group of fourteen people, the top lap time differs from the bottom time by about three seconds. My lap time is a full 1.25 seconds faster than the next fastest time of all five groups of people on my race schedule. That's ridiculously good.

Of course, you may be wondering why I'm making a topic about how I drive around a track a second and a quarter faster than everybody else. It doesn't seem like that big a deal, right?

Well, just yesterday, the owner of the track handed me a letter. It read:

Dear Jared:

As the National Team Director, for the Canadian National CRG Racing Team I would like to take a moment of your time, if for nothing more than to at least complement you on your driving talent. My job as Team Director is to recognize talented drivers and invite those interested to look at the opportunity of racing with Canada's National Team.

The Canadian National Team has already started preparing for next season, as new team drivers must start training now to be ready for competitive 2 Cycle racing in 2007. I would like to invite you to look at the opportunity of racinga t the club and/or Regional level. We have a Sponsorship Package that is available to you under the Scholarship Program athat is offered to Top Ranking Racers in the Canadian Rookie Championship Series. This opportunity is unique as it provides the necessary tools for new drivers to come on board nationally, with the understandin gthat by the end of your first season the cost of racing to you could be fully funded.

Bruce Baier who oversees the Canadian Rookie Carting Champonship Series is scouting the talent within the Rookie Series and he will be contacting you shortly to arrange a meeting with the National Racing Team Executive Committee. If you are interested, this would be the perfect opportunity for you to get started in a career in Motorsports that will see you challenge yourself against the best in North America.

blah blah blah contact me don't let this opportunity pass you by etc.

Bottom line: He wants me to step up.

This is really cool, because right now, there's a guy named Robert Wikins, who started exactly the way I did now: racing at my track, getting a letter just like this. A few weeks ago, he signed a 10.2 million euro (that's $15 mil for you non-currency types) contract with Formula BMW. He has a great chance at getting into F1, and even if he doesn't make that, he's still going to make a ton of money test-driving for FBMW.

I could be next.

[JKPolk]

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Sick, good luck. I used to just ride ATVs and stuff for the hell of it, so I can imagine how fun doing it competitively must be.

[terence1357]

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Dude. That's friggin awesome!

[Triplex72]

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Wow! Nice, you are accepting right? If so good luck.

[natetheffrer]

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Wow, lucky.

You get free go-karts now?

[GuidoHunter]

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Holy crap, nice. Well done, dude.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[scorpio1690]

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That's awesome man. Congratulations. May I ask how you got started with go carting?

[Mindfields]

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Every type of car racing except NASCAR is awesome. I wish to race in circuits when I get a nice car with nice modifications and everything. I'm not sure if I'll be good, but I do like cars, so if I'm not good, I'll just make a car for show (This doesn't really mean that it will be "pimped" out ((it will have a nice paint job and tint, but that's about it)), it will have insane horsepower and what-not).

Awesome job and good luck in the future. Car racing is not for the Faint-hearted.

[flamingspinach]

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Wow, congratulations O_O That's hot stuff

-fs

[LordKratosAurion]

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Nice.
Best of luck to you.

[Tibs]

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You win at life.

[mead1]

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RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE
RACEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

PS, good job winning at life.

[Afrobean]

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That's cool and all, but go karts, in my experience, aren't even difficult. Every single time I've ever driven a go kart, I've been able to hold the accelerator the whole time. Once you realize you can do that, it's all a matter of riding the inside of the corners (which, humorously, doesn't even need any moderation in speed) and hoping for good luck.

[Tokzic]

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May I ask how you got started with go carting?

I've always liked cars and racing, and my uncle told me about a track that let anyone for $100 plus $50 a race for insurance that's extremely close to where I live. Apparantly, it's a really good one, because people that live 3+ hours away are willing to drive over every other week to race.

It's really good because it allows just about anyone to get into it, and gives you the right connections to move up the ladder if you're good enough.

That's cool and all, but go karts, in my experience, aren't even difficult. Every single time I've ever driven a go kart, I've been able to hold the accelerator the whole time. Once you realize you can do that, it's all a matter of riding the inside of the corners (which, humorously, doesn't even need any moderation in speed) and hoping for good luck.

Heh, very true, but these aren't the pay-for-ten-laps carts. They're built minimalisticly to conserve weight and have 6.5 HP Honda engines. That may not sound like much, but they aren't cars, so they have top speeds of 70 mph, and believe me, you hit that a lot.

The track I do requires you to let off before turn 1, and brake hard for 3, lest you fly right off the track and into the signboards.

[SethSquall]

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Heh, very true, but these aren't the pay-for-ten-laps carts. They're built minimalisticly to conserve weight and have 6.5 HP Honda engines. That may not sound like much, but they aren't cars, so they have top speeds of 70 mph, and believe me, you hit that a lot. .

Yea I went go karting for somebodys party before and the whole time I never had to take my foot of the gas. When I finished we had somthing to eat in the building on the go carting campus and watched other people race. we saw these guys who looked like they were in some kind of league or something. They had much cooler go carts than the ones we used. My God, I never knew something so small could go that fast. I remember thinking if they crash at the speed they were going its going to be very harsh.