You might be a racer if ...
You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.
You feel compelled on a road trip to beat your previous best time.
When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.
When you hear 'overcooked it', instead of food you think 'off the track'.
You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater behind how to drive around a highway off-ramp.
Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.
You walk proper lines through the grocery store.
You've been known to yell "It means 'check your mirrors' dammit!" at your television.
You buy new parts because you don't know where you put the spares.
You bought a race car before buying a house.
You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house.
You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!
You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or in the front yard.
The requirements you give your real estate agent are (in order of importance):
1) 8 car climate controlled garage with an attached shop.
2) Outside parking for 6 cars, a motorhome, a crew cab dualie, a 28'enclosed trailer and a 34' 5th wheel.
3) 3 phase 220V outlets in the garage for your welder.
4) A grease pit.
5) Convenient to a hazardous waste disposal site.
6) Deaf neighbors.
7) Across the street from a paint and body shop.
8) Some sort of house with a working toilet and shower on the property somewhere -or- hookups for the motorhome.
You measure all family acquisitions in terms of the number of race tires that could have been purchased.
Your wife says, "If you buy another set of tires, I'm getting a new mink."
Your garage holds more cars than your house has bedrooms.
You have enough spare parts to build another car.
You think the last line of the Star Spangled Banner is: "Racers, start your engines!"
If you can't remember when you last worked on weekdays and rested on weekends.
After your answer to "What did you do this weekend?" the next question is always: "And you do this for fun? Right?"
You have a separate drawer for 'garage clothes'.
People know you by your class letter, car number, and car color.
Your criteria for selecting a significant other include auto repair skills. Air tools optional.
Your friends don't recognize you without a helmet and driver's suit.
You plan your wedding around the race schedule.
You remember the dates and details of every race you've ever been in, but can't remember your phone number.
Your family brings the couch into the garage so they can spend some time with you.
You refer to the corner down the street from your house as "Turn One."
After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on your vacation she answers: "Why... is there a race there?"

 



By Cartoonist John Marshall
for "Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul"



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