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Location: 6 String Ranch | So Kyle Busch wins a race in Nashville and the trophy is a Gibson Les Paul, He gets it and smashes it to pieces on the concrete, Ritchie Blackmore style.
Beautiful, just fooken beautiful!! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Well, even if it is a Gibson, that was just plain ignorant. Destroying a perfectly good guitar. :rolleyes: But what else would you expect from a spoiled kid? |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Why does things have to deteriorate into violence whether it's a good thing (a win) or a bad thing (a loss).
Doese'nt anyone else get bothered by this type of activity?
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Come on guys, he was just having fun. His crew wanted a piece of the trophy if he won so he broke up the guitar to divide it up - it was great!
I am sooo tired of the plastic cookie-cutter drivers in NASCAR these days; thank goodness there are still a few like Kyle Bush. Spoiled kid? Do some research before making such statements. |
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Location: Tennessee | "Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars smashing a perfectly good guitar". -- John Hiatt
I think he should've channelled Hendrix, had his crew douse it with some 104 octane, and lit it on fire. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | A Complete Idiot! Pieces for the crew? Guess that’s why he tossed it on the ground after whacking it three times (a real man would have smashed it on the first swing)...NASCAR: Mindless left turning lunacy...ymmv |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
(a real man would have smashed it on the first swing)...NASCAR: Mindless left turning lunacy...ymmv ymmv? translation needed for this mindless less than real man auto racing lover. |
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Location: North Oregon Coast | Originally posted by ladylaw:
Why does things have to deteriorate into violence whether it's a good thing (a win) or a bad thing (a loss).
Doese'nt anyone else get bothered by this type of activity?
Anita I'm with you Anita, a very disgusting neanderthal act, an embarassment to the male gender, and it bothered me to watch it as well! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It's his guitar he can do with it what he wants. Who cares. Have we lost yet another freedom? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | He's lucky it was a Gibson.
If it had been on Ovation he would now have a black eye and damaged teeth after it rebounded and hit him in the face!!
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Location: south east Michigan | Here's a guy at the top of his profession, in his moment of glory, and all he wants to do is play rock star.
Did you read the article?? The guy who put all the time and effort into the special paint job was not very happy.
There are only two people in the world that can smash a guitar and not look like a doofus. Townshend is one. I don't have a clue who the other is but he must be out there somewhere. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | what are you all excited about?? It was only a gibson, and a les paul at that. |
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Location: Michigan | Would not it be a nicer gesture to give the "whole" guitar to one of his crew?
Someday he will wish he had not done that. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Pete Townshend's first smashed guitar was an accident. He jumped high and broke the head off on a low ceiling. To entertain the crowd he smashed it up. Problem was, the crowds started to demand this behaviour and it cost them a lot of money. I suspect Keith Moon enjoyed the violence though. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | It just proves he's a f%@kwit
BTW Hendrix was the other!!
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
It's his guitar he can do with it what he wants. Who cares. Have we lost yet another freedom? What loss of freedom? Yes he's absolutely free to do it. And we're free to criticise him for doing so. Who cares? anyone who appreciates what goes into making a guitar. He could sold it for a charity, donated it to a deserving organisation... |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | It was probably a promotional stunt anyway!!
Regardless, he's still a f%@kwit
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Maybe it wasn't a real one. But he's still a f%@kwit |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Its real and and a true LP, just with a custom paint job.
He is a true @$$h01e. Many people would love a Gibson LP. (including myself)
Auction it off for charity, do something worth while, but to smash one so you can give away splinters? Unforgiveable. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I saw a replay of the act and thought it was senseless and a waste of an otherwise good guitar, but didn't give it much thought thereafter. I wonder how much longer the promoters and Gibson will continue to provide guitars if the recipients just destroy them? |
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Location: VENISE-EN-QUEBEC CANADA | Garth Brook use to smash guitar to!!!!! :confused:
and what a DUM A_ _ move from Busch dont like im period :mad:
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Wow, such reactions to a very talented kid having some fun with his crew. It was his guitar to do with as he pleased, it was done in fun and friendship for the crew not malice or anger (if you had seen more than the edited film clip that would be clear) and as for charity, he and the foundation he started back in 2006 does a lot more for kids than I imagine any of you who feel it's necessary call him some profane name. |
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Location: VENISE-EN-QUEBEC CANADA | well he could of auction off the guitar for is charity instead of breaking it,would of been less painfull for use guitar lover
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by flag72:
well he could of auction off the guitar for is charity instead of breaking it,would of been less painfull for use guitar lover
Daniel ;) True - but that's like saying drivers could auction off the tires on their winning car instead of destroying them in a post race burn-out. But the burn-outs are fun and joyous and cause no harm to anyone (unless I guess, you really love tires). I for one, love seeing that amount of joyous emotion. Can any of this be seen as a violent act? I guess, by some, but I really feel sorry for anyone that jaded. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Why didn't he bust up his other trophies and share the shards? I wonder if he kept the PU assy... 
His trophy... his to do with it as he pleases... still an azzclown IMO! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "It was probably a promotional stunt anyway!!"
Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing !!!!
We have a winner!!!!
Would this thread, or the gazillion others, along with video, exist how Kyle if he just took his trophy and went home? Hell, I didn't even know there was a Nascar Race the other day and I never heard of this guy until his name was.....
EVERYWHERE!!!!!
And all it cost was a guitar... you couldn't buy this amount of marketing/exposure for ANY price that Gibson, Nascar, and Kyle are getting for only cost a couple of thousand bucks...
Ah the wheels of gorilla marketing at work.. makes me heart a quiver. |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | The guitar trophy is promotional, that is true. But other driver has ever smashed one. The custom Gibson LP for winning Nashville and the Grandfather Clock "trophy" are considered "must haves" by NASCAR drivers. Lets see him do that to the "Grandfather Clock" that they give to the winner (either Richmond or Martinsville).
Regardless of whether or not its his trophy... its classless and shows a complete lack of respect for the company and people that made it.
What if the people that made it are die-hard NASCAR or K. Busch fans? Do you think they still are? If I were Gibson, I would refuse to make anymore for NASCAR. Give him a him 4" plastic kids trophy, to him it means the same and tell him where to stick it! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Fletcher...my comment was directed at Bush, not you or any of the other NASCAR fans out there...
I lived and worked in Nashville for several years...I have friends who work at Gibson and know what it meant to them to have one of their guitars represent them on a national stage like that...and to have this dumb wit wee in their faces is disgusting...it has nothing to do with the suits at Gibson Corporate at all...it has everything to do with the men and women who take pride in something that’s Made in America...a slogan that is becoming less and less appropriate...
He's lucky it was a Gibson.
If it had been on Ovation he would now have a black eye and damaged teeth after it rebounded and hit him in the face!!
AJ
AJ, that is pretty true...but, If that had been an Ovation or an Adamas...this thread would be approaching the length of the infamous Insomniac Pop Quiz thread...and you know it...
It's his; he can do whatever he wants...What a tired old justification for selfishness.
Sure it is; and he can and did...
But suppose we take a minute and consider that someone or something might be better served...like one of the kids he purports to be helping getting a great guitar or better yet, sell/auction it and give the money...but instead to be reckless with our freedoms is pathetic and reduces us to Neanderthal levels...
And if that represents NASCAR, I want nothing to do with it...
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Give it to a kid!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Amen.
[He didn't even look cool smashing it... Looked kinda lame actually] |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I make an amp. , it gets destroyed , I build another one.. No big deal , the Gibby craftsmen crying about a git. that they made .. ? .. Oh Please .. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | No one said anything about crying...it's called pride in workmanship and the fellow that put hours into painting the guitar I am sure shares those sentiments...for what it's worth, when I was younger and Townshend and the Who smashed all of those guitars and equipment, I thought they were jerks as well...we couldn't afford the stuff they destroyed w/o thinking and to this day, I remember how it felt... |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Music , I understand how ya feel , as far as pride in workmanship goes , yeah I know about that , after sleepless nights and tons of coffee , having constructed an amp. that simply sounds good , no-matter what it`s driving , and , then to see it go up in smoke just `cause of some ninny , does give a sting in the heart , yet , it only induces me to build a better one ... I mean , as long as it aint any of your precious gits. ..., I know .... it is a shame , but ...
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Location: south east Michigan | I've done alot of reading on Townshend & The Who. Even back when I was 16 there were other kids that thought smashing a guitar was a foolish thing to do. I won't argue the foolishness of the act in general but I will suggest that when put into context, Townshends trademark is a natural extention and logical conclusion of how he played. That and the fact that he always tried act as a mirror the audience. He saw aggression in the crowd then reflected it back.
Townhend also had a long history of smashing a guitar for charity. One I heard of just a few months ago. However he said thats it... he won't do that anymore.
As you all know by now, I have seen every Detroit Who show since 1970. That first show in 1970 was the only time I've seen a guitar smashed.
But... I digress.
I'm with Dave. It's his. He can do what he wants and deal with the results.
I bet this is getting more attention here than over at the Gibson Fanclub.
Is the such a thing as a Gibson Fanclub??? |
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Folks, it was a show. Everyone on that stage knew what was going to happen. The TV announcer knew what was coming. The Gibby guy who handed over the guitar knew what was coming. It was a show. It was planned. The guitar was probably a stunt double anyway. I recently did an industry event in Nashville where the host company had some "limited edition" Gibson guitars painted for some lucky recipients in attendance. The guitars were unplayable pieces of crap even if they had a custom paint job.
Word has it, The Shrub (or "Rowdy" Busch, as he likes to call himself), went to the Gibson factory and commissioned two guitars earlier in the week on the likely chance he would get to do this. Nobody from Gibson seems to be outraged. BTW ... the news reports say that Sam Bass, the guy who paints the trophys, applauded and was quoted as enjoying the show.
Let's be consistent here. Where was all the righteous indignation with the Trebuchet incident or the "booting" of the Celebrity? Everyone seemed to think THAT was pretty hilarious. What's the difference on this one? |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
I lived and worked in Nashville for several years...I have friends who work at Gibson and know what it meant to them to have one of their guitars represent them on a national stage like that...and to have this dumb wit wee in their faces is disgusting...it has nothing to do with the suits at Gibson Corporate at all...it has everything to do with the men and women who take pride in something that’s Made in America...a slogan that is becoming less and less appropriate... That was my thought, too. Lot's of people taking pride in manufacturing a product in the USA, and having hopes riding on the national exposure of their product, and then having the guitar smashed. It kind of cheapens their guitars' image.
I see it as an insult to the people who made the guitar |
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Location: south east Michigan | Where was all the righteous indignation with the Trebuchet incident or the "booting" of the Celebrity? Everyone seemed to think THAT was pretty hilarious. What's the difference on this one?
Awww.. just when I was having such a good time pointing out other peoples faults Bobbo has to go and point out my own.
Whatta buzz kill. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Artist Sam Bass ‘heartbroken’ over Kyle Busch’s guitar smash...
Sam Bass, the longtime NASCAR artist who painted the Gibson guitar smashed by Kyle Busch after the Nashville Nationwide Series race on Saturday night, said he was “stunned and heartbroken” to see his work destroyed in victory lane.
Though Busch immediately told Bass he “meant no disrespect” to anyone – the artist, Gibson or the track – Bass said Monday he’s struggled to accept the incident.
“It’s like raising a child,” Bass said. “You start out with nothing and you finish it and you hope people will take care of it. And it was stunning, absolutely stunning to see that thing destroyed within seconds of him getting it.”
Bass said Busch told him he would order two more guitars from Gibson to be painted like the one that got smashed, and the artist said he understood the “rock-star thing” Busch was trying to accomplish.
“It’s his trophy, he can choose to do with it what he wants,” Bass said. “But I’m not going to lie about it. If he had asked me, ‘Hey, I’m thinking about destroying that trophy guitar whenever I win it, what do you think,’ of course I would have told him, ‘No! Please don’t. Let us give you a prop guitar.’”
The Gibson guitar has become the symbol of Nashville Superspeedway, and the one Busch smashed was the 30th designed by Bass, who said the trophy has come to be “a very revered piece of history … and revered by the fans here in Tennessee.”
Seeing Busch smash the guitar after getting out of the car upset both fans and sponsors. Bass noted that representatives from race sponsor Federated Auto Parts walked out of victory lane after Busch’s act.
Bass estimated that he and Gibson put “hundreds and hundreds of hours” of work into the guitar, which is so unique that “you can’t just buy this thing right off the shelf.”
“A guitar might be a guitar and he might have seen rock stars destroy them and things like that, but at the same time, this is a trophy,” Bass said. “You wouldn’t think he would destroy the Daytona trophy or the Brickyard trophy or something like that.
“This is much more than just a guitar somebody plays at a concert and beats the hell out of when they’re done. It symbolizes something much bigger, much greater – and that’s the part I don’t think he thought all the way through.”
After the race, Bass smiled in pictures with Busch and told reporters he was OK with Busch’s act. He said his feelings haven’t changed and he has no interest in criticizing Busch for what happened, preferring instead to stick to a personal philosophy of always taking the high road.
“I’m not going to accost him in victory lane or fuss at him and berate him,” Bass said. “If he told me he meant no disrespect, I’m going to take him at his word that he meant no disrespect.”
But Bass couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if the situation were reversed.
“What if I won a contest to win Kyle Busch’s car?” he said. “Let’s say the crew prepares it and everything else and I accept it at an awards ceremony and just start beating the hell out of it.
“I don’t think they would appreciate that, it would hurt their feelings that they put their work and time and energy and effort into it.”
And what if Busch races at Nashville again next year?
“I joked with someone that if Kyle’s in the show, we’ll make an exact replica – only it’ll be a pillow,” he said. So much for a planned stunt...what a waste... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | A waste it was. There are people who would sell their soul for that guitar. There are people who deserve to have that guitar. I used to love nascar, back when it was actually racing. Back when the "S" stood for "Stock". Now it's just a place for corporate sponsors to advertise their logos. All the cars are the same template, and basically the same engine, just different decals. And those STUPID wings on the back. Car of tomorrow,...right! The manufacturers should be made to run the crap they make. V6 front wheel drive sedans. Doesn't matter, soon there will only be Toyota and Ford when GM takes the last nail in it's coffin. Maybe Hyundai will join the fray....
Ok, I've said my piece.
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Location: Sydney, Australia | 1) What makes you think we don't?
2) They both share a same root cause - a disregard for the feelings and rights of others. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Caravan Rooubishe:
you guys shoiuld get a life and show the same level of concern for battered wives, abused children, an mistreated animals. it was a damn guitar,who cares? Ummm, guitar forum here! Battered, abused and mistreated guitars included...
Shouldn't you be over on the 'ribbon collecting' sites? |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by MWoody:
This is a guitar site, we b1tch about guitars here... Is that all this is? Oh, I'm so glad. All these venomous statements being expressed simply because a guitar was destroyed. Thank goodness there are individuals like all of you out there to look after mistreated guitars and crucify anyone who may cause them harm. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by fletcher:
[QB]All these venomous statements being expressed simply because a guitar was destroyed. Kyle destroyed a trophy crafted and given with pride. That it just happened to be a guitar is beside the point. It could just as well have been a Masters tournament cup, Super Bowl ring, or heavy weight championship belt.
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| Originally posted by Jonmark Stone:
Kyle destroyed a trophy crafted and given with pride. That it just happened to be a guitar is beside the point.
That's the bottom line right there although I rather doubt that Mr. Busch will appreciate that fact. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by Jonmark Stone:
That it just happened to be a guitar is beside the point. Sorry, but that was the WHOLE point!
Would it have been appropriate to smash a grandfather clock? No. But paint some race cars on a guitar, give it to the winner of a rock & roll theme auto race, have him smash it on stage and toss the pieces to his crew? That's just beautiful. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Like someone pointed out... That was probably a Special II (see my sig) all painted up.
He probably has another one that he kept. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by fletcher:
Would it have been appropriate to smash a grandfather clock? No. But paint some race cars on a guitar, give it to the winner of a rock & roll theme auto race, have him smash it on stage and toss the pieces to his crew? That's just beautiful. [/QB] Maybe it's just racing car drivers. They seem to have a penchant for spraying expensive champagne over people. |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Like someone pointed out... That was probably a Special II (see my sig) all painted up.
He probably has another one that he kept. OMA,
Go back and read Mikes post on page two with the artist (Sam Bass) comments. This was THE award they spent countless hours creating.
A little more than just a few cars painted on a guitar, Fletch.
I still see it in the context of taking a hammer to a Grammy after it was just handed to you.
Sure you have every right to do so. But it's classless and disrespectful.
My opinion, obviously. I'm old school.
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| Originally posted by TAFKAR:
Maybe it's just racing car drivers. They seem to have a penchant for spraying expensive champagne over people. [/QB]
It was the great Dan Gurney who started that at Le Mans if I'm not mistaken. |
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| Yes it is.
One of the greatest races IMO.
A few years ago the Audi team changed the transmission and complete rear suspension in about 4 minutes during a pit stop.
As for NASCAR, I don't watch it but I respect what they do from a drivers perspective - anyone who thinks it's not racing ain't never been in a race car at speed. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Come on guys, champagne will be sprayed everywhere!
It took years and years of nurturing to create that champagne, where is the righteous indignation?
OK, just kidding.
Joe, I agree completely. Le Mans is the greatest, nothing else comes close. |
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| Shelby, Foyt, Gurney and Briggs Cunningham all went over there and kicked some ass. Too bad there isn't a better US presence in open wheel racing these days like with Revson and Cheever but all roads lead to NASCAR and that's where the careers are. There's some talk of the USF1 team based out of Charlotte NC but even though Busch might be one of the better drivers he'd be stupid to leave a good career in NASCAR to go hind tittin it in F1. |
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A man who gets thrashed at the OFC ..
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
Shelby, Foyt, Gurney and Briggs Cunningham all went over there and kicked some ass. Too bad there isn't a better US presence in open wheel racing these days like with Revson and Cheever but all roads lead to NASCAR and that's where the careers are. There's some talk of the USF1 team based out of Charlotte NC but even though Busch might be one of the better drivers he'd be stupid to leave a good career in NASCAR to go hind tittin it in F1. Yeah, NASCAR is the place to be these days - even Danica Patrick has talked of moving over. Big money, lots of racing.
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| Originally posted by FlicKreno aka Solid Top:
And " Le Mans " is the BEST .. !! .. followed by " Silverstone " ... Too Bad it `ll all soon be outlawed by the recently ( yesterday ) elected European Ecological Parchlement ...
Vic
.. somethin` te do with vroom vroom odour not being ecolological .. Fascinating isn't it. Racing engines extract every ounce of power from their fuel, burn very clean and push technology ahead in leaps and bounds but it's somehow ideologically incorrect that people should derive any enjoyment from watching the sport..lol
That said though, the historic European races are being eliminated and replaced with sand box derbies hosted by slightly obscene nations attempting to buy credibility on the world stage.
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| Originally posted by fletcher:
Maybe reestablish Watkins Glen as the site of the USGP? Fond memories of camping out in the mud.... Absolutely.
For me it's Mosport during the 70s CanAm and F1. Now I am privileged to run my own car around that track and I want to run the Glen one day as well - two of the biggest, meanest and scariest tracks there are..lol |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by FlicKreno aka Solid Top:
And " Le Mans " is the BEST .. !! .. followed by " Silverstone " ... Too Bad it `ll all soon be outlawed by the recently ( yesterday ) elected European Ecological Parchlement ...
Vic
.. somethin` te do with vroom vroom odour not being ecolological .. I thought the conservatives won the most seats with the greens coming in third. Don't tell me the conservatives have become (gasp) green? |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
NB - this is all music related because I'm riffing on my in between posts/sentences..lol [/QB] Hey, and I've got a dodro on my lap. Oops, it's a National, which forum is this?
Ah, don't get me started on CanAm. Unlimited horsepower, simple rules, and Mark Donohue. I hated F1 for a while after his death. |
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| Yeah, and the CanAm field really does shake the ground when they all go by at the start.
I can still see Donohue in the Sunoco car coming down through corner two at Mosport after he ripped a bit of the nose off it. He ran away with those races. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Fletch , thar`s votes/money in being ecologistical... it`s heallthy - it costs ..
.. and for those who do n`t know what Joe and yers Truly are smirkin` about .. ( MUSIC , the Tech. touch ).. !! ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooV-I_ou998&feature=related
.. ahhh ..
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| Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Or maybe even an Esteban ??? If he had smashed an Esteban, he would not have been accused of smashing a guitar! :D
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Location: Texas | this is boooooooooorrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnggggggggggg!!!!!!!
this guy is a chomp...............!!!!!!! we know that.
moderators, lock this thread, please!!!!!!!!!!!!
or better yet..............delete it!!!!!!!!!!
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dump this thread pleazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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