Although racing can seem to an outsider like it’s the polar opposite of a desk job, to one extent or another, pretty much every race team has to sit down and develop a plan. As I write this at the beginning of the year, it is time for us to do the same. We need to evaluate how our racing went last …
I like "respectable showing", it's a good goal to shoot for in amateur racing. I might also add in the word "fun" to that somewhere. If racing's not fun why the hell do it?
HapDL wrote: If racing's not fun why the hell do it?
Truer words are hardly spoken
Tim Suddard wrote: And if we are dead last and our team is a total cluster, readers will have no respect for us.
You may actually have the only car magazine on the planet with a readership that wouldn't lose respect for you under those conditions. However, you should still probably strive to avoid that.
A Fairlane would be major cool. 
Other than maybe a few old historic drag cars, you rarely see them. I love the '64's in particular, no apparent reason really, I just like the way they look.
APEowner wrote:Tim Suddard wrote: And if we are dead last and our team is a total cluster, readers will have no respect for us.You may actually have the only car magazine on the planet with a readership that wouldn't lose respect for you under those conditions. However, you should still probably strive to avoid that.
As long as you're not out there playing bumper cars and hitting everthing in sight, I imagine the readership here will be just fine with DFL. Looking at you C&D at Nelson Ledges.
I think the guy with the lime green shirt ought to plan on wearing a hat next time.
Why are all the responses in bold text?
In reply to Toebra:
because we are yelling
ahhhh! yelling!!!
my plan for 2017? get the car running and on a track lol
How do I make it have more echo echo, echo
never mind, I got it
Corrected the extra bold tag in the OP. If you wish to keep yelling you will have to add your own. 
Since you asked, consider: 1. Don't sell the TR-3. Instead, write about the incremental improvements made to the car over its life. Many people vintage race this way. Continue to write about it and your exploits from race to race. Eventually you will have enough material for a book. I am dying for someone to write that book. That would be different. 2. If you want to drive a big bore car, swap with JG a couple of weekends. Have JG race the TR-3. The contrast would be interesting. 3. Someone over there needs to race an Italian car or a Japanese car at some point. Yes, you've had both as projects but not race cars. 4. Introduce Tom to the swinging, swirly world of vintage racing if he has the inclination. That would be cool for a number of reasons, the foremost being connecting the younger generation to the old iron. Could be interesting.
God, I can write about other people's lives all day.
Will your CAM Mustang be making a showing at the Mineral Wells SCCA event in June?
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