Pinks
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 2003
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From: Nashville TN
Originally Posted by waupachino
Just a heads up, The Pinks "All Out", was a special, the next season of Pinks will still include the negotiaton of each race and spotting of car lengths.
Racer
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 315
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From: Houston TX
I went to the Pinks "All Out" in Ennis that aired on Thanksgiving with my buddy racing his T-type. He got beat by the black vert. C5 when he blew a head gasket.
The cost to race was about 20 bucks and there were quite a few cars there. You were racing for the possibilty of winning a grand prize of 10,000. If you lost, the most they are gonna get is your pride and the $20 you spent to enter. Each of the racers making it "on the show" could bet the prize money that they won in early races. Anyway I thought it was a good format and think they should continue giving away money to the people that are making them money, the drivers.
Any show about car racing is cool in my book especially when it is about us guys that are modding our cars for fun.
The cost to race was about 20 bucks and there were quite a few cars there. You were racing for the possibilty of winning a grand prize of 10,000. If you lost, the most they are gonna get is your pride and the $20 you spent to enter. Each of the racers making it "on the show" could bet the prize money that they won in early races. Anyway I thought it was a good format and think they should continue giving away money to the people that are making them money, the drivers.
Any show about car racing is cool in my book especially when it is about us guys that are modding our cars for fun.
Intermediate
Joined: May 2006
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I can't stand this idea of lengths and "negotiation" -- call me old-fashioned and small-town, but I like the idea of racing being about being the better driver and having the better-built car, not about being the better liar and tricking the other guy.
Since when is racing about being the slower guy, but the slicker weasel? There's something pure and honest about torque, speed, 60fts, and ETs. Making it into some sleazy, trial-lawyer sandbagging competition just saddens me.
Since when is racing about being the slower guy, but the slicker weasel? There's something pure and honest about torque, speed, 60fts, and ETs. Making it into some sleazy, trial-lawyer sandbagging competition just saddens me.
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Clanton AL
Originally Posted by Glacial
I can't stand this idea of lengths and "negotiation" -- call me old-fashioned and small-town, but I like the idea of racing being about being the better driver and having the better-built car, not about being the better liar and tricking the other guy.
Since when is racing about being the slower guy, but the slicker weasel? There's something pure and honest about torque, speed, 60fts, and ETs. Making it into some sleazy, trial-lawyer sandbagging competition just saddens me.
Since when is racing about being the slower guy, but the slicker weasel? There's something pure and honest about torque, speed, 60fts, and ETs. Making it into some sleazy, trial-lawyer sandbagging competition just saddens me.
Me too. I loved the new Pinks. I hope what waupachino said isn't so!!!
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Joined: Dec 2001
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Hi folks -
I don't like pinks - good concept poorly presented.
c'mon - it's all a power trip for the guy that feels like he has to be the bad-guy starter. Makes him look like a putz. Trying to hard to be a tough guy.
If they could just negotiate a spot and then set the lights to give the spot - then let them run - fine. You could get two or three matches done in the half hour.
I hate the whiny crap (they call it negotiating) and the fact that you see three or four 15 second or less runs in a half hour. Can you say commercial overload?
best regards -
mqqn
I don't like pinks - good concept poorly presented.
c'mon - it's all a power trip for the guy that feels like he has to be the bad-guy starter. Makes him look like a putz. Trying to hard to be a tough guy.
If they could just negotiate a spot and then set the lights to give the spot - then let them run - fine. You could get two or three matches done in the half hour.
I hate the whiny crap (they call it negotiating) and the fact that you see three or four 15 second or less runs in a half hour. Can you say commercial overload?
best regards -
mqqn
