Dominated by a Ford Festiva????
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All you people are just so confused, the Fiesta is a great car with a lot of racing heritage and just look on the web, you'll find many racing parts for Fiesta's, people just love them and the characteristically great handling. I don’t know why Ford quit making them? They are the answer to everything, “Race Car to Green Vehicle”.
Sure, if you make the competition course small enough, your Fiesta will under time any 996TT. Were you thinking maybe some 3 foot radius turns on a 4 foot wide track? Friggin’ Shopping Cart!
The point here is don’t step into someone else’s backyard and yap up a fecal matter and think you’re getting out alive.
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Thank you, Tom I think you are 1 of the only people here that has not snubbed their nose at me. I think I will be departing from the website due to the world-renowned Porsche elitist attitude that I have basically gotten from mostly everyone here. It certainly is a very real stereotype that I can not comprehend for the life of me. To the few that are not I will still remain perusing the topics as they are of much interest to me. I love all cars no matter what they are, how expensive they are, etc. But I will no longer post due to the eye-opening posts. I love the cars but for the most part apparently I hate the people in the driver's seat... -Kyle
So, you come on here with your piece of **** car to a forum full of exotic cars, and big budget builds and talk about your fiesta comparitively and not expect to some flak (rudeness in return?). Thats like an ugly dude walking up to a super model and saying: "let me slap you with my fat, pop a zit on you and give you a night you will never forget".. or sitting at the high-limit table and asking the guy beside you for $100.00... or telling the biggest meanest football player on the team that you want to hang with him because he has a cute ***... or asking the cop if would like a hit of crack with that latte...
What I'm saying is your orginal post was just fawking strange and thats all there is to it... what are we supposed to expect?
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Autocross is a type of racing where the more go-kart-like you can get the
car, the better, and where power is de-emphasized in favor of transient
handling characteristics. People can race well, and on a small budget
with various sub-compact cars, which in some cases can remain streetable.
So the OP's general approach is a good and practical way to start racing
cheaply and do reasonably well at local events too. It could certainly be
rewarding to win against *good* competition especially if they spent more.
My only objections to the OP are that he way-overinflated the worthiness of
his 'victory' over an apparent first-event autocrosser with a bone-stock heavy
street car, and that the OP joined this forum only to wave it around. If the OP
sticks with autocross long enough to be objectively proficient, like going to a
regional and placing within a second of the winner in his class, he will come to
realize the honestly meaninglessness nature of his current perceived 'win'.
With time, he may also garner more political maturity to realize that a newby
non-Porsche poster coming out of left-field with nothing but brags and challenges
about strawman triumphs over the group's car of interest is unlikely to be
received warmly, and it has nothing to do with Porsche owners. Try it in any
non-Fiesta forum and see what you get.
Joe
car, the better, and where power is de-emphasized in favor of transient
handling characteristics. People can race well, and on a small budget
with various sub-compact cars, which in some cases can remain streetable.
So the OP's general approach is a good and practical way to start racing
cheaply and do reasonably well at local events too. It could certainly be
rewarding to win against *good* competition especially if they spent more.
My only objections to the OP are that he way-overinflated the worthiness of
his 'victory' over an apparent first-event autocrosser with a bone-stock heavy
street car, and that the OP joined this forum only to wave it around. If the OP
sticks with autocross long enough to be objectively proficient, like going to a
regional and placing within a second of the winner in his class, he will come to
realize the honestly meaninglessness nature of his current perceived 'win'.
With time, he may also garner more political maturity to realize that a newby
non-Porsche poster coming out of left-field with nothing but brags and challenges
about strawman triumphs over the group's car of interest is unlikely to be
received warmly, and it has nothing to do with Porsche owners. Try it in any
non-Fiesta forum and see what you get.
Joe
Last edited by Joe Weinstein; Sep 27, 2007 at 12:55 PM.
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Tell you what Kyle since you didn't take my advice the first time I am going to give you a week to find that book and read it. If after a week you come back with a better attitude and not the crap you are spewing from your first post to this post, maybe you can stay. Until then see ya!
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Someone go race the kid, I would, but autocrosses are major boring stuff IMO, unless you are just starting out. (when you could be at a road course).
He came in here chest all puffed out, but havent we all done the same when we beat X old car in our whatever we had before the TT?
Let bygones be bygones, he'll be ok, but hopefully will learn about going into the bees nest.
And about us being family
I love you guys!!!!!!!! (unless you have defaced your tt w/ RWD)
JK
He came in here chest all puffed out, but havent we all done the same when we beat X old car in our whatever we had before the TT?
Let bygones be bygones, he'll be ok, but hopefully will learn about going into the bees nest.
And about us being family
I love you guys!!!!!!!! (unless you have defaced your tt w/ RWD)
JK
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