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I worked for a porsche race team this week. Here is some pictures.

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tronned
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My car was the subway car.

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all in all, was a pretty epic weekend i must say. My guy finished 2nd place. Madison Snow in the Rum Bum 991 gt3 destroyed everyone since its a professional level car from TUDOR series, but he was just here for some track time as it is his local track.
Mar 24 2014 1:49AM
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Phil-X-
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This is embarrassing


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cool_name
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damn im jealous
Mar 24 2014 1:57AM
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cool_name
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its the newest...
Mar 24 2014 2:04AM
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tronned
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The 991 is parked beside the silver WRX in that one picture. I have more pics of the 991 and everything i will post tomorrow. I am dead tired tonight, just got off the plane from the event and have to be up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to get ready to head back the Aston Martin dealer for work...... I guess these are good problems to have :)
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tronned
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here are some more of the pictures over the weekend. If anyone has any questions I would be happy to answer them.

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jasontheredhead
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why did someone tie dye their car?
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yuck
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are those SR8s? fuckin rad
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gapersarefriends
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because it looks awesome
Mar 24 2014 7:43PM
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tronned
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The Radical cup series was going on this weekend. A new friend of mine was pulled off the track by 2 other cars in an incident which in turn wrote off his radical, stretched his HANS device, and cracked his helmet. He was lucky to be walking let alone on the plane home with me.

Radicals are pretty cool, seem cheaper to run that the cup cars and faster on track but obviously less safe than a closed cockpit.
Mar 24 2014 8:11PM
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tronned
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That car was just in the 12 hours of Sebring a couple weeks earlier. It is owned by a fairly wealthy family, the driver is the son who just finished high school.

They are a nice and friendly family, racing is kind of like cheers... " where everybody knows your name"
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Willgum
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So awesome, i remember you made a thread back about working for Aston. Hows that job going, must be pretty incredible
Mar 24 2014 9:38PM
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GlazedOverGary
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How did you become apart of this? I am a freshmen at michigan state studying mechanical engineering and am looking to get into being an engineer on a race team.
Mar 25 2014 10:52AM
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Horsefacekillah
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Jahbradors brother races GT2 in the same car its so ballin
Mar 25 2014 1:09PM
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tronned
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Aston martin is going well, it is quite odd from going one dealer ( porsche/vw) where i worked for almost 7 years to a brand new dealer and having to relearn all the procedures and politics.

The day to day stuff is pretty cool, I am already getting a bit indifferent to super cars already. I dont even look twice at any of the cars anymore ( lambo, ferrari, Aston ). I am still on track to be the new lambo, ferrari tech at the shop but time will tell, I was talking with the foreman today about it and he said he would like it if I could handle the overflow of the Italian cars when it gets too much for the single tech.
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tronned
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It took me a few years to make a solid connection. The hardest part is getting your foot in the door without a doubt, the rest comes naturally. Racing is a small world, everyone knows everybody involved. The team I was with this weekend had an ex f1 driver, a world famous race track designer, and the data engineer from TRG ( tudor racing series, aston martin racing team).... the owner of TRG's porsche was at the shop as well but he was not racing.

I worked for about 2-3 years attempting to make connections in the racing side of things and found it was almost impossible to get started but if you continue pushing eventually you will get a chance.

Get involved in local motorsports if you have a race track within driving distance. Volunteer your services to any and all teams that you can. Make yourself an asset, have a skill that can get you a shot. Make friends with all the gentlemen drivers around, most of them have loads of money that keeps grass roots motorsports alive so anyone in the racing community is willing to please them.
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Gherbs
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Jesus I'm jealous
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