[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

[mitchntx]

I bet the Set-Up CCR had so many mark-throughs, erasures and pencil marks that it was as thin as Costco toilet paper at the end.

Moves made that involved body contact would have been dealt with swiftly and severly in my regional series. There was inconsistencies in the way penalties (or the lack thereof) were handed out.

In the end, Mike's penalty very well could be the result of the ultimate prize ... knocking folks off track for $100K might not have set too well with sponsors. drama ...

The problem is, this whole "set-up" was a "set-up" to "set-up" a dramatic finish. Maybe the producers realized that Mike was the man and there would be a boring race for $100K? drama ...

It's pretty easy to arm chair Qb this one. Most of us will never be in that predicamant. So it's hard, for me any way, to point a finger.

What would you do for $100K?

[rmackintosh]

I bet the Set-Up CCR had so many mark-throughs, erasures and pencil marks that it was as thin as Costco toilet paper at the end.

First of all, you have to ASSume there was a CCR on that show. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Seemed to me Scott was making things up as he went, and if he happened to be in a bad mood, which seemed often, the penalties were much more bizarre and/or extreme.

You are very much correct about the "true meaning" of Set Up though....hit the nail on the head.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/2thumbs.gif)