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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 08:12PM
I am pretty fucking embarassed by this whole thing.

It is absolutely fucking pathetic that Wasserman Media Group, the company that manages Travis and Rally-America, couldn't find someone that could figure out the difference, or at least take 10 seconds to fact check themselves.

It is more embarassing to see the shit fest that this little revelation has caused (not saying don't make it public but this is a little much). It just makes rally in the US look even more like a second rate hack job series.

I just can't wait until the rest of the BS over flows the bucket and hits the general public.
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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 08:22PM
Timm,
Shut the fuck up. You will upset the natives.
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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 08:23PM
Well, rallying in the US is a second rate hack job at best. I hope you were not under a different impression.



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 09:21PM
sagsert Wrote:
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> Well, rallying in the US is a second rate hack job
> at best. I hope you were not under a different
> impression.
>
> Cheers
> M.Samli
> Phoenix AZ
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>
>
> Rallies are no place for traitors


I've been pulling for first rate hack job....

Seriously though, this is beyond bush league...
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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 09:26PM
Hey Richard,

This is so cool! We can now both list our events as 'World Rally Championships' events! As long as it's not 'the World Rally Championship'.....

Just shakin' my head....and wishing I was in marketing....licensed to kill, chill, thrill, spill (liquor most likely), etc......

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Mark B.
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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 10:01PM
Well Mark, at least our event has the name of a foreign capital in it. smiling smiley That proves we are a world class event. smiling smiley But yeah, all us smaller events should band together and declare that running our events makes you a world champion.



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 29, 2008 10:58PM
Whats funny is that the impression i get from both Ken and Travis is that they are well aware of how far we (them included) are when it comes to Rally compared to the rest of the world. Yet there is always that young guy that thinks Travis is the best driver in the world. I guess that false marketing scheme works!



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 30, 2008 12:21AM
this stuff cracks me up now.

1) because I've learned to get John's jokes/style of writing. I can see how someone can take it 'the wrong way' because things like sarcasm and 'ball busting' don't always come out well over the inter-web, but once you figure John out, he's pretty funny.
^Tim...that ones for you. You'll learn too.

2) Its a pretty funny, albeit purposeful, 'oversight'....obviously aimed at lesser informed folks. (ie his main non-rally fans) What can you do? its not like he's some company and this is a product press release. oh well....grain of salt.

3) Doesn't affect me in the slightest. end of the day, I really don't care. won't stop me from hitting the stages next year, and if i ever run an RA event, maybe i'll get to be in the same line up as one of these big boys. smiling smiley



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 30, 2008 01:14AM
Funny as can be.

Typo? Ahhhh.... No.

Just the same..... TP is our there racing on someone else's dollars.

Good for TP.

Were I the name being managed I'd make some effort at keeping on top of the ish my handlers were putting out there about me. That said, I know what it is like to be busy. Certainly there is no missing that his crack management team shot and missed.

Tim..... DO take a deep breath. Really.



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
May 30, 2008 09:41AM
Oh, so Wasserman Media Group puts this BS-Hype together for TP. And Wasserman does the RA dribble as well. That explains a LOT. Interesting.

Tim, I reread all the posts, I don't see who else is whining. We are just having a leetle fun.

Nothing against TP or the rest.

In the past BCE would have explained that TP doesn't look at the interweb, or read or he's too busy jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes without a shoot or something, so how could he possibly know anything about the content of a website aimed at 8-12 year old boys.









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Re: Ken in a NA Subura at Oregon
May 30, 2008 10:55AM
I just saw that Ken Block ran a few stages in a NA impreza at OT. I wonder how his times were in this car? I know that Randy Zimmer, Patrick Richard, and a few others can turn some good times in this setup.



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Re: Ken in a NA Subura at Oregon
June 04, 2008 12:33AM
yep,

might have had something to do with his main rig bouncing to a stop along those rocks after his light pod popped off and got stuck under the front wheels friday night. Sure am glad I'm not the mechanic who has to explain that one.
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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
October 19, 2009 04:35PM
Bumping this tidbit up from the crypt. Just incase you-all haven't gotten your share of PR-BS.



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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
October 20, 2009 11:45AM
tedm Wrote:
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> Hey those guys have proven that they can
> consistantly beat arguably the world's best rally
> driver, Colin effin' McRae, may he rest in peace.
> They have nothing left to prove.

As I have been told on DirtyImpreza, Colin McRae is the awesomest because he got his start rallying in Subarus.





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Re: Travis Pastrana, 2007 World Rally Champion
October 20, 2009 02:18PM
Pete Wrote:
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> tedm Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Hey those guys have proven that they can
> > consistantly beat arguably the world's best
> rally
> > driver, Colin effin' McRae, may he rest in
> peace.
> > They have nothing left to prove.
>
> As I have been told on DirtyImpreza, Colin McRae
> is the awesomest because he got his start rallying
> in Subarus.


Hmmmmmmmmmm and Subaru was the first turbocharged 4wd rally car EVAR!!!
>
>
>
> Pete Remner
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
> 1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
> 1978






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