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Old 03-19-2009, 05:33 PM
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I shot a bunch of stuff today at Sebring. I've got 3 general categories going. I'll dump more tonight and again on Saturday.

Lou and GT2

World Challenge plus a few others

Vintage Trans Am

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Here are a lot more pictures of Lou from Thursday.

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Here are some pictures from the dark side - the Pratt & Miller factory team that's racing with your tax dollars. So far they haven't even said hello to Lou. Considering that they're using bailout money for funding they should have an Obama sticker on the car. Nahhh - that's just mean. I apologize in advance.

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Thanks for posting all the pics. Any chance you could get some pics of the new Phoenix SWC car?
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heres a nice picture for comparison between lous car and the factory Corvette..

I'm still pulling for them both!!
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Originally Posted by Z06_BluByU
I'm still pulling for them both!!


They may be using tax dollars but racing is a necessity and so is advertising.
Thanks for sharing the pics BTW.
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Yeah, it's truly disturbing that the Bank O' bama is out there drivin' on our hard-earned cash. But I'd rather see them race with tax dollars and learn something that could eventually make GM's products more competitive, rather then hand the money to some greedy executive that already makes more in one year then I'll make in a lifetime.

...And GM could use all the accolades from winning internationally-recognized races that they can get right now...

But that's JMO...

Thanks for the pics... wish I were there !!!
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Nice, thanks!

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Originally Posted by Z06_BluByU
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heres a nice picture for comparison between lous car and the factory Corvette..

I'm still pulling for them both!!
Sweet!
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Wall Paper

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Great pics!
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WC results....

http://leaderboard.vfx.com/SCCA/GT/L...=0&ID=112722PM
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Originally Posted by CrystalRacer
Yeah, it's truly disturbing that the Bank O' bama is out there drivin' on our hard-earned cash. But I'd rather see them race with tax dollars and learn something that could eventually make GM's products more competitive, rather then hand the money to some greedy executive that already makes more in one year then I'll make in a lifetime.

...And GM could use all the accolades from winning internationally-recognized races that they can get right now...

But that's JMO...

Thanks for the pics... wish I were there !!!
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There use to be a Grand Am team sponsor by New Centry Mortgage. NSM was on of the first companies to sell those bad sub par mortgages to wall street investors.

the Peterson part of Peterson/White Lightning GT2 team. was the MMPIE Sponsor. Also heavily involved in selling shady real estate loans and investments in So Cal and Las Vagas.

There has been tax dollars, drug money and all kinds of "thing" going on in motorsports racing & horse racing for years. Nothing new
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Thanks for the link!

Props too for a driver/team from our area for a 4th place finish-Tony Gaples #34!!
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Here's some pictures a friend of mine took. 12 Hours of Sebring

I really enjoyed the race. Of course, I was rooting for the Panoz and they did spectacular for a private team not on Michelin's. Every time I saw the Michelin man I wanted to tackle him. How about the Ford GT qualifying 4th? Another impressive showing.

This year we got the track video feed. This is the only way to see the race. We got the feed from every camera on the track. We could follow whatever battle or car we wanted regardless of what Speed was broadcasting. If you just watched it on TV, you missed some great racing.

You've gotta go to Sebring. It truly is the greatest sports car race in America.

Ohh, don't miss the World Challenge race when it airs.

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