OT: Winston Cup Testing At Sears Point

Hi Guys.... I've posted some pics from the Winston Cup "Testing" at Sears Point - conducted Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the following URL: http://www.pabst-racing.com/Winstoncuptesting2002/index.html FYI, the drivers present for the two-day testing session were: Ricky Rudd, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Ron Fellows (driving for Nemechek). Scott Pruett was present, acting as a driving coach for Ryan Newman. There's further information on the WC testing session at the Sears Point website. We had one of our simulators setup at the front of the "press conference" room (in the Media Center) for selected members of the press to drive. They were pretty amazed just how hard it was to drive a Winston Cup racecar around Sears Point. Two of them had prior racing experience...and they still struggled with the simulated WC car at Sears. Regards, Tom

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:34:23 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Hi Guys.... > >I've posted some pics from the Winston Cup "Testing" at Sears Point - >conducted Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the following URL: Thanks for sharing Tom, cool. Nicole really shouldn't wear those short T-shirts though. Andre

Lol....Andre. Actually, the t-shirt was not short. Its just that most of the material is taken up by "what's up top." The pic doesn't show that very well....thank goodness! But, the WC crew members didn't miss it! ....lol.... Tom "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:34:23 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >Hi Guys.... > > > >I've posted some pics from the Winston Cup "Testing" at Sears Point - > >conducted Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the following URL: > > Thanks for sharing Tom, cool. > Nicole really shouldn't wear those short T-shirts though. > > Andre

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:52:18 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Lol....Andre. Actually, the t-shirt was not short. Its just that most of >the material is taken up by "what's up top." The pic doesn't show that very >well....thank goodness! But, the WC crew members didn't miss it! >....lol.... > >Tom Well.. the guys on the pic really seem more interested in the car :) Anyway, more pictures to prove your point are allways welcome ofcourse. Andre

You mean...."off track" pics? lol.... TP "Andre Warringa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:52:18 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> > wrote: > > >Lol....Andre. Actually, the t-shirt was not short. Its just that mostof > >the material is taken up by "what's up top." The pic doesn't show thatvery

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> >well....thank goodness! But, the WC crew members didn't miss it! > >....lol.... > > > >Tom > > Well.. the guys on the pic really seem more interested in the car :) > Anyway, more pictures to prove your point are allways welcome > ofcourse. > > Andre

Looks like you guys had a pretty good time there Tom. Keep it up and some day those real life drivers will wanna sit in front of the simulated thing, instead of taking to the track right outside ;) Mikkel Tom Pabst <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3sey8.9467$ao1.8432@rwcrnsc54...

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> Hi Guys.... > > I've posted some pics from the Winston Cup "Testing" at Sears Point - > conducted Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the following URL: > > http://www.pabst-racing.com/Winstoncuptesting2002/index.html > > FYI, the drivers present for the two-day testing session were: Ricky

Rudd, > Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Ron Fellows > (driving for Nemechek). Scott Pruett was present, acting as a drivingcoach > for Ryan Newman. There's further information on the WC testing session at > the Sears Point website. > > We had one of our simulators setup at the front of the "press conference" > room (in the Media Center) for selected members of the press to drive.They

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> were pretty amazed just how hard it was to drive a Winston Cup racecar > around Sears Point. Two of them had prior racing experience...and they > still struggled with the simulated WC car at Sears. > > Regards, > > Tom > > >

Well Mikkel, I don't know that sim racing will ever come to that. But, I think its a reasonable extrapolation from where we are today.....that someday, they'll use the simulator to make the very precious "real track" seat time....more efficiently used. That is one of our goals, at least. Tom "Mikkel Gram-Hansen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3cca8251$0$97319$[email hidden]...

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> Looks like you guys had a pretty good time there Tom. > Keep it up and some day those real life drivers will wanna sit in front of > the simulated thing, instead of taking to the track right outside ;) > > Mikkel > > Tom Pabst <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3sey8.9467$ao1.8432@rwcrnsc54... > > Hi Guys.... > > > > I've posted some pics from the Winston Cup "Testing" at Sears Point - > > conducted Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the following URL: > > > > http://www.pabst-racing.com/Winstoncuptesting2002/index.html > > > > FYI, the drivers present for the two-day testing session were: Ricky > Rudd, > > Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Ron Fellows > > (driving for Nemechek). Scott Pruett was present, acting as a driving > coach > > for Ryan Newman. There's further information on the WC testing session

at > > the Sears Point website. > > > > We had one of our simulators setup at the front of the "pressconference"

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> > room (in the Media Center) for selected members of the press to drive. > They > > were pretty amazed just how hard it was to drive a Winston Cup racecar > > around Sears Point. Two of them had prior racing experience...and they > > still struggled with the simulated WC car at Sears. > > > > Regards, > > > > Tom > > > > > > > >