[bowtieboy]

Well, talk about "Welcome to last week !".......

I started watching the show Set Up on Speed and low and behold saw where the autocross community is being represented by Mike this season .......and, if I heard them correctly, has won 2 out of 3 of the events he has been in thus far.

Even better; Mike won this particular race I was watching and a crew chief of another driver boasted that if his driver would have had a few more laps that he could have easily taken Mike ~ the hosts asked Mike if he felt that would have been the case and he confidently said "no". More words were said and before you know it the hosts had just these two boys on the track to race ~ telling the other guy that if he couldn't beat Mike that he would be out.

Long story short; Mike won, the other guy wasn't kicked off but his crew chief was besically told to not to be so arrogant, as it could cost his driver next time

Congratz to Mike ! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/2thumbs.gif)

This post has been edited by bowtieboy: Mar 14 2008, 09:39 PM

[marka]

Howdy,

I was rooting for Mike, but I also agree (from what they showed of it) that that move was a bit over the top... The brakes locked up thing didn't seem to be too out of the ordinary (since they disabled the ABS on all the cars) compared to other drivers, but he really wasn't alongside the guy prior to corner entry or even during corner entry.

I thought Jr. handled the afterwards interview stuff reasonably well overall... Adrenaline pumping, race face on, etc. and he defended the move fairly rationally despite the "drama inducing" setup.

Looked to me like a lack of w2w experience bit him there and he learned that sometimes you have to be more patient. I imagine he's learned something from it. Hopefully he can put together some type of program to get some more seat time and can use that plus the exposure from the show to start moving up.

Mark