Re: OT: Alan Baker a no-show again

On 2025-06-20 14:35, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/20/2025 1:45 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-20 10:40, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/19/2025 5:54 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-19 13:30, -hh wrote:

On 6/19/25 08:40, Tom Elam wrote:

On 6/2/2025 6:41 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-06-02 15:21, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/18/2025 2:12 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-18 08:36, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/12/2025 11:30 AM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-12 07:05, Tom Elam wrote:

On 5/9/2025 1:32 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-05-09 06:57, Tom Elam wrote:

On 4/30/2025 7:53 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2025-04-29 13:30, Tom Elam wrote:

Liarchild Baker, pleading something out of
his control for no doubt, failed to enter
the first SCCBC FF weekend event this past
week. Apparently his #21 is sitting idle,
for the most part for years now, tires
rotting out and otherwise rusting away. In
the mean time some new drivers are showing
up and running fast times.
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Alan's window for ever winning a FF season
trophy is closing fast. He has not been
competitive for a long, long, time. That
despite his claim to have run a few fast laps in the past.

LOL!
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With every post about this, all you
demonstrate is your own ignorance.
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Can you get your pilot's license without a
medical, Liarboy?
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So, yes: I didn't enter a race that I
couldn't attend, because I couldn't get a
medical, and thus couldn't get my license.
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But I'm still teaching racing to new
students, and despite your claims of "a
long, long, time", I've been competitive every time I've been out.
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:-)

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Quote from my post "pleading something out of
his control". That could be passing a medical
exam. You simply proved you are too ignorant
to read plain English.
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he term "competitive" includes showing up and
running a race. The last time you did even
that on a regular base was 5 or 6 years ago.
Last year you ran in one race, had a wreck,
and did not show up again.
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You shouldn't post after you've had too much to
drink, Liarboy.

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Unable to deny facts, you default to deflection
again.
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You were hardly competitive in the one race you
entered last year. There are no results to prove
that at all.

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Are you kidding?
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First, I entered TWO races last year, which you
knew.
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So you now claiming I only entered one would be a
lie, wouldn't it?
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:-)

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I amend my comment, I should have said you only ran on
1 weekend (September) and in only 1 race that weekend.
That's from the club championship page at:

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And you're still wrong.
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https://www.sccbc.net/racers/club-championship/2024-
sccbc-club- standings/
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I suppose it is possible that you entered other
weekends and then canceled. That would not be on the
cited record, would it?
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The substance of the comment is unchanged. You have
not competed on a regular basis in years.

I TOLD you about the other race weekend I participated
in last year, Asshole.

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But it was not a SBBC points race. And as I recall you
took the restrictor plate out to increase power of your
already incredible detuned Honda engine. Fail.

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I took the restrictor out because I was bored with beating
the available FF competition and wanted to see if I could
play with the faster classes.
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And regardless of whether or not it was an SCCBC points
race, I did compete in it...
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...I still told you about it...
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...asshole.

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One race completed since 10/9/2022? That's it?
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Too embarrassed to admit the truth? Your racing days are over
and not even 65 yet? Poor health and/or finances? Or just lost
interest? Come on Alan, be honest for a change. CSMA wants to
know the truth.

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Once again, besides Alan, the only person who seems to care
about it is a luzer stalker located 2,350 miles away who's never
tracked an open wheel car.

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And remember that this all stems from me having the temerity to
point out that wheel-to-wheel road racing requires more continuous
focus than pleasure flying.
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I can tell you one thing:
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As a racing driver, I never have time during a race to just look
at the sights.
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:-)

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And you have no idea what it takes to fly an airplane by yourself
in marginal weather while monitoring aircraft systems, always alert
for an ATC call, worried about weather, fuel state, thinking about a
plan B and C in case things go south. Granted, good weather flying
is less intense. Like the 12 hours I flew just this week, well most
of that. On one flight I went VFR on top and had to use Plan B to
get down. On another I saw rainbow!

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And here we go again.
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Yes: there are OCCASIONS when flying a light plane requires a high level of focus.
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I never denied that even ONCE, Liarboy.
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But let's face a few facts.
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In "marginal weather", you avoid flying, don't you?
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"Always alert for an ATC call" means not putting cotton in your ears. You're trying to compare listening for a human voice in your headset with the continuous focus that is always necessary when driving a racing car at speed.
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You talk about the (relatively) brief periods where you actually need to focus...
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...whereas a road racing driver might get a couple of moments on the main straight where he can relax his mind just slightly.
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If there's a rainbow out there when I'm driving, I don't have time to see it.

 No I do not avoid marginal weather. Leaving Little Rock we entered clouds and rain at 300 agl and we in the soup for about 1.5 hours. There were severe thunderstorms just north of the track we took, seen by radar depicted on the iPad and aircraft GPS. Those storms were on the direct route. The detour cost us maybe 5-10 minutes.  We would have died going through the storms, tops 35-40 thousand.

Tell you what, Liarboy.
Bruce MacInnes is a senior instructor with Skip Barber and has been racing and instructing for more than 40 years. He's raced in numerous series including CanAm and IMSA endurance racing...
...and was the national champion in SCCA Formula Ford racing in 1971 (my class!).
He's also a private pilot of long-standing.
Want me to ask him the question, asshole?