Tango Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 I know that I'm a little late on the response, but I wanted to say thanks to all the Chumps and Chump staff for an awesome weekend at VIR. This was our first time at VIR and first time racing with ChumpCar. My family and I have raced LeMons in the past but have heard good things & so-so things about Chump and decided to check it out for ourselves. Overall, we had a fantastic time and it was well worth the haul from Michigan.To be honest, I was a little skeptical about the Chump atmosphere vs LeMons. I was anticipating everybody to be much more hostile and not willing to lend a hand if we had issues. I was dead wrong. Everybody came up and chit chatted before the race and in the tech line. Rob from Simon Says gave us some pointers even while waiting for the gate to open. Our pit mates, Flatout and Dog ciao were great and we worked out our pit stops together. They even helped hold our fire extinguisher when we didn't have enough people.By the grace of the JB weld gods, we didn't have any major mechanical issues but I'm sure people would have offered help. It was a superb experience!We had some absolutely great racing with everybody and we had very little to no contact depending on our drivers. Sorry for any contact we had with anybody. We tried to point by the quicker teams and thanks to the other teams for the point by's. We tried to waive back when the time was appropriate or give the trucker on/off running thank you light signal at night.We will see you Chumps again!Thanks again for a great race.- Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent merkle Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Tim it was a pleasure meeting you and your family. Can't wait to see you all again at MIS next week Glad you had a great time no matter what you heard , we're all just a bunch of friendly old cusses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Andrew D Johnson Posted August 16, 2012 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Glad you enjoyed your first Chump outing. See you guys at MIS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutlassRacer Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 No problem Tim! BTW, your singing fish cracked me up every pit stop, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jer Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Batteries! The talking tuna takes batteries!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chip Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Tango-The singing fish was great- I was behind you guys during a FCY- so I checked guages and took a drink of my gatorade- it was at this point I see that damn fish singing away- almost blew gatorade all over the inside of my helmet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Batteries! The talking tuna takes batteries!!!We had one of those on the car for Homstead, Sebring and possibly Charlotte, there are generally 2 AA batteries inside and seemingly watertight as it never quit working even in heavy rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted August 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 The Big Mouth Bass Billy's were wired up to only one of our 3 kill switches and the bass were in series, so we will have to modify them. Our fault. Glad you guys liked 'em and let us know about any other moving animals we can mount to our POS. Pigs, cows, deer, whales...etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Thomas Crapper Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Loved the bus. Is that new since Gingerman 2010? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubby Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 The Big Mouth Bass Billy's were wired up to only one of our 3 kill switches and the bass were in series, so we will have to modify them. Our fault.Glad you guys liked 'em and let us know about any other moving animals we can mount to our POS. Pigs, cows, deer, whales...etc.Wish I could have seen the fish. We've had various wildlife mounted on our car and appreciate the company during long driver stints... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent merkle Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Wish I could have seen the fish. We've had various wildlife mounted on our car and appreciate the company during long driver stints... I'll ride with you to Tubby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubby Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 I'll ride with you to Tubby We'll be in your trunk of the Thunder Chicken. During the last stint, we'll pop out and finish under our own power.I just reread that and realized that post taken out of context would ruin any political career. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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