Re: Idiots with money
From: Doug & Terri (dntdock.net)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 22:08:20 -0800 (PST)

Heh heh

Thanks for the pictures and insight Charles

Golly I miss good ol days of a nice day at Riverside International Raceway

Alas

Doug

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Charles Perry
Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:11 PM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Idiots with money

 

lol. I don’t do much with the FCA since the vast majority of their events are heinously expensive. However, a few weeks ago I did their track event at Daytona International Speedway since I wanted to try that track. There was a scattering of interesting cars from a variety of marques, but the vast majority of attendees were 458/488 chassis. I signed up for the intermediate group since I am realistically low- to mid-intermediate with most groups I run with.

 

This lot was hilarious though. There were probably 40-50 cars in the intermediate group, and of those, maybe 6 had any concept of the racing line. It was quite clear that most of them were just slogging through the infield road course section as a necessary evil to be able to hammer it on the banked oval sections. It was literally a 30mph poser parade through anything with a turn included.

 

After lunch I found the Chief Instructor and asked if I could run with the advanced group for a session or two. At most events, those guys would consider me a chicane, but this time I was only passed by three cars – a seriously quick Corvette C7 Grand Sport, an F12 and an IMSA prototype. Pretty sure after the event, all of the intermediate guys drove to the local hot spot and assumed two parking spots each.  J

 

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolinasound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Rick Moseley
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2019 6:19 PM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Idiots with money

 

Bingo!!  The last sentence says it all for me.

There are those who buy cars for the way the cars make them feel when they are alone behind the wheel.  Many of those people are my friends (plenty here)

 

Then

 

There are those who buy cars for the way they think the cars make them look in public.  I tend not to gravitate their way.

 

I'd rather spend a whole Saturday in Rob Garven's garage than 2 minutes with the dork that just bought a 488, showed up at the local hot spot and took two parking spots by the front door.

 

 

On Saturday, March 2, 2019, 3:03:34 PM PST, Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

 

Not like the dolts who buy the cars for the wrong reason 

 

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