There seem to be quite a few rally racing fans on here so I figured it might be fun to have a place to discuss all things that go sideways......
I am currently watching the Acropolis rally, work nights, so watching em throughout the days over this weekend. If anyone is interested maybe we could share how we got into rally to start things off. I pretty much summed up my intro on my "new members" post recently and can't be arsed to type it all out again lol. What I didn't mention was being obsessed with the Audi Quattro as a kid. I don't know what it was, I was around 12 or so and got a little Matchbox car and living in the USA of course had zero exposure through television. Maybe I read up on it through my Dad's Autoweek magazines?
For my last two years of high school my family moved to Marin County, California. If you don't know what or where that is, it is across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. One of the most affluent places in America. My Dad got a job as a service manager at the local Mercedes Benz dealership and it was quite a shock moving there from a smallish town in Texas. Anyways, the parking lot at school was like a freaking car show. Kids driving everything you could imagine. And this one guy had a Mk2 Gti (this was in 1993), AND a Quattro. It was new, I guess the second generation, the one that had smoother lines, and I just DROOLED everytime I saw it. Was jealous as hell too. It came time for me to get my first car and I was thrilled that I got a somewhat of a beater 1983 Audi 5000. Non Quattro, and definitely non turbo, but I drove the shit out of that thing. It was a manual and I got two speeding tickets in my first six months. Ok, NONE of this has anything to do with Rally racing anymore lololol, so that's enough from me for now.
I am currently watching the Acropolis rally, work nights, so watching em throughout the days over this weekend. If anyone is interested maybe we could share how we got into rally to start things off. I pretty much summed up my intro on my "new members" post recently and can't be arsed to type it all out again lol. What I didn't mention was being obsessed with the Audi Quattro as a kid. I don't know what it was, I was around 12 or so and got a little Matchbox car and living in the USA of course had zero exposure through television. Maybe I read up on it through my Dad's Autoweek magazines?
For my last two years of high school my family moved to Marin County, California. If you don't know what or where that is, it is across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. One of the most affluent places in America. My Dad got a job as a service manager at the local Mercedes Benz dealership and it was quite a shock moving there from a smallish town in Texas. Anyways, the parking lot at school was like a freaking car show. Kids driving everything you could imagine. And this one guy had a Mk2 Gti (this was in 1993), AND a Quattro. It was new, I guess the second generation, the one that had smoother lines, and I just DROOLED everytime I saw it. Was jealous as hell too. It came time for me to get my first car and I was thrilled that I got a somewhat of a beater 1983 Audi 5000. Non Quattro, and definitely non turbo, but I drove the shit out of that thing. It was a manual and I got two speeding tickets in my first six months. Ok, NONE of this has anything to do with Rally racing anymore lololol, so that's enough from me for now.
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