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From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Peter Mottaz
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:59 PM
To: john@harlie.idsfa.net; kml@patheticgeek.net
Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: autocross in the news, plus autocross on MTV!
What is MTV?
;-)
Pete M.
>From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>
>To: Kevin Lahey <kml@patheticgeek.net>
>CC: autocross list <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: autocross in the news, plus autocross on MTV!
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:48:13 -0700
>
>I caught this tip on the Evolution list. The format of the tryouts is
>apparently:
>
>1) Drive the autocross course with a Skip Barber instructor. If you
> hit any cones, you're out. If the instructor decides that you're
> not totally hopeless, you pass on to the next step. No points for
> first place.
>
>2) Interview with the MTV producers to decide who is hip enough to be
> on the show. One of the Evolution folks (name slips my mind, but
> somebody who is a very good autocrosser) made it to the interview,
> but could not answer "Which MTV personality would you want to be
> stranded on a desert island with?" because he didn't know any MTV
> personalities. They pick the 5 most "interesting" contestants from
> each region, at which point I'm not sure what happens. The end
> result is a track race with five celebrity/amateur 2-driver teams.
>
>I'd get stuck around step 2, trying to explain why Kurt Loder is my
>favorite MTV personality without admitting that he's the only one I
>can remember.
>
>--
>
>john@idsfa.net John Stimson
>http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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