gkmccready

Did anybody else catch this on HD Theatre today? It looks like a series about the Miller Mustangs series. Looks like those guys tear up a lot of cars. :-/

HD Theatre also has a program called `Star Racer' that appears to be about the Star Mazda series.

HDTH is channel 281 on DirecTV.

wallyman424

deeeeeep pockets.

dvandentop

bad *** show i liked it, another new episode is on tonight

damn some of those guys were crashing all the time. the one green and white one got really owned at road atlanta!!


starting price for a car is 75k and then you need to afford to race all season

gkmccready

$75k for the car. Estimated $200k for the 8 race series.

Funny to hear a guy who races a Corvette say "deep pockets." :-)

I'm still building my 21 year old RX7... sold my 26 year old Pro7 prepared RX7 a couple of years ago. Been contemplating prepping the Miata because it costs less to completely prep than it would to buy two sets of CCWs+tires for the C6.

The C6 is just too much fun, though...

wallyman424

i'm POOR, man!!! I mean, have you seeeen my trailer? 15 feet of rusting goodness!

Oyishdog

Yea, me too! I wish my budget was 200k a year My yearly budget is way less than that

wallyman424

200k would be over 20 years of racing for me.

fej

Heh 200k would be about 40 years of racing for me

Fej

dvandentop

2nd episode was on earlier good show looks like only 3 shows for the series though as they are up to race 7-8 already

eogel

From initial post: "It looks like a series about the Miller Mustangs series. Looks like those guys tear up a lot of cars."

Did not see the show, but sounds exactly like some of them were driving at Road Atlanta in about March '08. Eight of the cars were there and that is the impression they left with me.

WBHighwind

I have my dvr set up to record this series but have only watched one episode. Seems like for the most part, its dominated by big money teams, but one kid that seems to be doing the best is really a grassroots effort from his family. I remember him from winning an SM championship a year or two ago. Seems like a good driver and its always good to see a small team winning... gives me hope kinda like that flag they put on the greens at golf courses.

mikahb

I missed the show - we don't have HD anyway. But, these guys were at the 25 Hours of Thunderhill taping the Miller Cup cars, including the 00 car that Boris Said was driving and the 98 car that was in the overall lead by 2 laps when they lost their differential with 35 minutes to go! They had cool HD cameras and were all over the place - seemed to be taping nonstop. Let me know when that episode airs - I think I passed both of those cars 3 times in the GTM I was driving - maybe I'll be on TV.

BTW, BF Goodrich and the Miller Cup (sponsored) teams had a huge hospitality tent set up and they were showing this show on a big projector and invited anybody to come watch. Pretty cool of them... deep pockets indeed!!

Jason

Watched the first 1/2 of the first episode. Was cool to see RdAtl after just running there. You could definitely tell Caddell had the experience. Once he was in front, he was gone.

L98Terror

I watched 1/2 an epasode last night got the DVR set to record them all, It's kind of cool watching people race on TV that you have raced with.

Tony Buffomante is 4th in points a former NASA ST2 National Champ.

gkmccready

I was wrong here. Looks like some kind of reality show where they're picking racers from a bunch of different disciplines and going to do something with them. I assume run them in some spec series or another.

dvandentop

what the hell is with the brakes at mid ohio??? they running stock fluid or what? i was like telling them through the tv to do some brake fluid upgrades then if they are getting brake fade so bad that 4 cars crashed. they already have cooling ducts

Joy of 6

Thanks, Had no idea what this channel was and now I'm hooked

wallyman424

heres a clue, it has nothing to do with the fluid... theres this multicellular organism that sits behind the steering wheel, if faulty, cars crash.

RUN4CVR

There wasn't enough racing for me...like many other reality shows there was too much talking and not enough action. That being said it still better than that show that had all the Solstices puttering around the track. I'll watch it again!

Zee Freak

Been enjoying watching a fellow Oregon Region SCCA driver kick butt in that series.