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Must admit the fat prick got me for $500 worth of hot laps i never got.
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I heard he's still racing a team in Oz....anyone ?
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News just out here is hes entering Carrera Cup and has a ST driver to drive it. Here we go again, does that guy ever give up. How many people has he sucked in over thier. Given the way CC run thier ship I reckon they wouldnt give him a franchise even if he paid up front as you just know what will happen down the road.
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Oh brother, they have no idea what they are in for. I can hear it now "Hey bud, I'm just waiting for some funds to come through but the bank stuffed up. Can you put those repairs on your credit card, and I'll bring some cash to the track tomorrow"
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20 Feb 2012, 22:28 (Ref:3028619) | #536 | ||
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Andre has already proved he has bucket loads of talent with great results in F/Ford. He did a great job in round 1 of the V8ST's & has already done some Endurance racing with a Porsche. Its not like they need TKR's (or whoevers) money, or that TKR has a franchise they can use etc, so I cant really see the benefit to Andre in getting involved with the debarcle that is TKR... Guess it will be another feather is DJ's cap as to the Kiwi's he has helped carve a motorsport career, regardless of the fact most of them would have regardless if TKR existed or not... |
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speedstuff: You’ve chosen to enter 16 year old Andre Heimgartner who up until last week had never competed in a ‘tin-top’. What is the rationale behind that? DJ: Like we have done with the majority of our drivers, we wanted to give an opportunity to a young talented kiwi driver. He’s just taken back to back formula ford titles, he’s obviously got very good car speed and has a reasonably mature head on his shoulders for a young fella, but we still see it as our role to manage and mentor him through the early days of his career. Manage, mentor - really? What's happened to the "development drivers' from the last few years then? |
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22 Feb 2012, 06:07 (Ref:3029272) | #540 | ||
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You'd have to think there are better teams Heimgartner could've linked up to race in Carrera Cup..
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doubt there's anything wrong with the actual team. it sounds like it will be Triple X Motorsport wearing TKR shirts.. with Big Dave taking all the credit.
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Which is the way I think TKR should work. Although most people hate the whole TKR thing, I think it could and should work, But TKR should be a sponsorship company, Collect all the money from the TKR sponsors and forward the money onto a team that is running a up and coming Kiwi driver, but not actually have anything to do with the team or running ownership of a car etc. Basiclly just go to someone like XXX and say "here is some money to sticker your car in TKR colors and have this guy drive it," and stop there. |
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Collect all the money from the TKR sponsors and forward the money onto a team that is running a up and coming Kiwi driver,
The tricky bit seems to be fowarding the money on to the team that is running the operation. "here is some money to sticker your car in TKR colors and have this guy drive it," you haven't been watching this show long have you. What's happened to the "development drivers' from the last few years then? Who knows o t i, Maybe they ran out of "development funds"? |
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its official in Australia now:
http://www.speedcafe.com/2012/02/27/...-track-return/ So who gets the hand-me-down once the new car comes on board? |
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I don't know why Heimgartners would need to get involved with TKR, and I just can't see why the two XXX guys would either.
I'd love to see how they compare XXX with TKR - 'no comparison' is my pick. Oh to be a fly on the wall |
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Technically it is not Triple X contracting/working for TKR, as my understanding is that XXX no longer exists as of end of last year. Just Ian and Todd doing a bit of mercenary work for DJ.
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I was going to put ex-XXX guys but thought it looked goofy. You're right though, XXX is defunct. The comparison thing was about them comparing the way TKR operate to the way XXX used to. I don't know if DJ is even over there, but he would only get in the way anyhow.
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1 Mar 2012, 22:36 (Ref:3033771) | #549 | |
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Todd and Ian are a couple of good operators
the XXX Porsches always looked good and it was a great team - pity it stopped - with them managing the car it should be good and you are right will only benefit from DJ not being there |
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Not a lot of sponsors on the car? I thought the press release mentioned a couple of new sponsors?
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