Brian Sellers

[Jay]

Just wondering if anyone who's seen him race here has any thoughts on this guy. Lynx Racing in Atlantic has signed him to teammate Valiente for the rest of the season. He seems very highly rated, having won the American FF2000 zetec Championship. He has some sponsors, backers with deep pockets and will obviously try and is obviously play off the 'We need more American drivers', for sponsorship.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how he does against Valiente. Despite what some of them might say, it doesn't seem to take very long for drivers to get up to speed in Atlantic if they're going to do well, so it shouldn't take too long to find out.

[corkholio]

Bryan Sellers is good. I have never seen him race myself but everyone else I have talked to thinks he is up there with Allmendinger. There was a shootout for the ruSPORT seat that Allmendinger currently occupies and Sellers was about 2-tenths slower but kept the car on the road the whole time while Allmendinger kept going off.

He should be right up there but then he has an underpowered Comptech. I don't know how much backing Sellers has but I doubt it's all that much. Then I again I can ask him myself at Laguna Seca.

[Russfeld]

I used to think Sellars was really good too. Then I saw him vs Ryan Hunter Rheay in the wet at Road America in a Skip Barber 2 litre race. Hunter Rheay was a second a lap faster for 30 minutes in the same car on the same setup and *destroyed* Sellars. His response after the race of "boy...he was fast" really lowered my estimation of him

[Jay]

I think quite highly of Ryan for all out speed. But, being 1 second off at a circuit as long as Road America isn't as bad as it would be at other shorter circuits. Not trying to make excuses, but even if the cars were exactly identical there are other things that can be a factor besides the driver just being slow.

I'm curious to see how he'll do against Valiente though.

[Russfeld]

Sorry, it was on the short course, about a 1:31lap in the dry. 1 second every lap for roughly 20 laps

[Jay]

oh, haven't seen that one. Well, have to see I guess. Sounds like it'll be good if he can keep pace with Valiente. The next event's the token oval though, so it'll be difficult to tell.

[Tom Baker]

Like all things there are always two sides to the store.
RHR is a great racer no doubt. But the only time the two
guys did race against each other was at RA.
What the gent forgets to say is it was RHR 3 year running
and Bryan first race in the rain. In the Dry the next day
they were nose to tail..But this comes from a guy at skip
barber what would he know.

[Russfeld]

Doesnt change the facts that Sellars got his ass handed to him in the wet big time. The instructors took big notice.

[Jay]

ok, well one race doesn't make/break a driver. RHR has had days when he was off pace in Atlantic too. We'll see what Brian has to show pretty soon. I was just curious what people who had seen him race or raced with him though...

[gttouring]

I raced Sellars in Skip Barber. He is great, a very liakable mild mannered and humble guy, his dad was with him at every race and they are some of the finest people i have met. He would never remeber me, seeing as at every meeting I think he won the race. Sellars is the next big racer when his grooming is done, why he was passed up in the F1 redbull thing i'll never know a great racer to represent america, he is from Ohio the regular america type place. And he is much better i'll bet than Alex Yoong any where. So he had a bad race vs. H-R...Sellars is a new breed of Gentleman Racer and he needs support. of course so do I, but Brian is way talented.

[Tom Baker]

I think some people just like to spend all there time
on negative stuff. Like I said RHR is good and a really nice guy but by Jay logic: He must not be that good because
in the first 3 races in cart he hasn't beaten PT once.

[Tom Baker]

Sorry Jay..should of said Russfeld logic

[Russfeld]

I was actually at the race. Sellars got pounded silly. He was barely holding off regional gentlemen racers. And it really wasnt so much the performance, but his attitude towards it after the race.