Fireball Run

[pdisme]

I really wish I was just some independently wealthy guy, or even trust fund rich, I don't care :), so I could go on things like the Fireball Run:

http://www.fireballrun.com/

3500 miles, 125 teams, going from Orlando to LA with stops for track time and other stuff along the way.

The Fireball Run is an invitational “Adventurtainment Rally” placing 125 teams (vehicles) of up to three people per team on the American landscape. The sponsor-friendly national event takes the participants on a 3500 mile, nine day cross-country adventure. It is a live action “game” and America is the game board (players are but a pawn in our game).

Starting in Orlando, Florida and finishing in Los Angeles, California; teams will know only the beginning and the end…what happens in between is a mystery. This is a “scavenger- hunt style” road game with a few time-trial-distance race track events.

[Matt]

Has a rather ominous name though, no?

[pdisme]

I think they were running out of *ball names to play off the old Cannonball Run since there's already all these other rallys.

[Matt]

BLUEball run?

That would get the guys out for SURE.

[pdisme]

That would actually be a good name: "Fellas, wife giving you blue balls? Come on the Blueball Run, a rally that stops at 45 strip clubs between Orlando and LA in nine days! We promise you'll get a happy ending" :lol2:

[Minch00]

A friend of mine is directly involved with the Fireball Run. He's signing up clients left and right.

[pdisme]

If they get me a stand-in at work, I'll go on the rally.

[Minch00]

If they get me a stand-in at work, I'll go on the rally.

I can get you his contact information if you want.

[Matt]

If they get me a stand-in at work, I'll go on the rally.

SHOTGUN!!!

[duc749r]

I did the players run a couple years ago in a 360 spider, fun no women like they stated but a lot of fun racing across country. IF I were to do it again the Gumball is the only way to go.

[pdisme]

Xzibit and Jay Kay are in the Gumball now, I really need to get a job where people throw Lamborghini's at me just because of who I am:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/4/prweb522544.htm

[Minch00]

Has a rather ominous name though, no?

It's named after Fireball Roberts, a NASCAR legend who could actually, you know, drive well.

[Matt]

It's named after Fireball Roberts, a NASCAR legend who could actually, you know, drive well.

so they named a cross country rally after someone who can drive in a circle well? :fgay:

[pdisme]

Fireball Roberts could use a new web master; his biography page images are all busted:

file:///D:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Webs/Fireball2/biogra2.jpg

but at least we know the webmaster uses FrontPage. :lol2: :010:

[Minch00]

so they named a cross country rally after someone who can drive in a circle well? :fgay:

Edward Glenn “Fireball” Roberts began his racing career at eighteen, when he completed only nine laps in one of the historic NASCAR races that crossed the sand of Daytona Beach. During the next seventeen years he built a reputation as one of the most daring and exciting drivers in the fledgling National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR). These were the days of small-town tracks, when many a weekend racer spent the rest of the week running moonshine from the hills to the big cities. The next year he won his first race on the same course, in 1948. After a couple of years dabbling in NASCAR, he stuck to local races until the mid 1950’s to be near his wife and only child, Pamela. Upon his return to NASCAR in 1956, he started showing signs of becoming one of the series’ most dominant drivers.

Over the next decade he amassed dozens of wins and top-ten finishes, building a reputation in his era that rivals that of Richard Petty or Dale Earnhardt in modern times. Though his nickname, “Fireball,” was very appropriate for his bold driving style, he actually acquired it before his racing career, competing in another national pastime: baseball. He earned it for his ability to “bring the heat” as a pitcher for an American Legion team in a small town near Orlando. He was certainly able to bring the heat to the other drivers on the track in the Fords and Pontiacs he drove during his career.

It was a fateful day in May 1964 when he was critically injured during a fiery crash while competing in the World 600, at Charlotte (now Lowes) Motor Speedway, in North Carolina. He died of complications several weeks later. The racing world—and America’s spirit—lost a champion that day. But his passion for adventure and competition lives on through our unique event. We pay tribute to his competitive character and honor the legendary race driver with our first Fireball Run, sixty years after he ran his first stock car race.

[Hovik]

I met the organizers at Poconos last month. Nice people.

[zzzzdoc]

If they get me a stand-in at work, I'll go on the rally.
How about you drive the first half and I'll cover for you, and I'll drive the second half and you cover for me?

[pdisme]

How about you drive the first half and I'll cover for you, and I'll drive the second half and you cover for me?

That should work; we'd end up with a few thousand businesses' websites off line and a bunch of people dead or in great pain, but you and I would have some fun! :lol2:

[Minch00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OccdMdOWKQw

The PSA we filmed on Friday. I'm in the last shot, top left :D

[pdisme]

Hmm, last I checked you weren't a missing child or of dark complexion? And you don't look like a convertible.

[Minch00]

Ok, at 0:37 seconds to go, I'm next to the Rolls.

[pdisme]

You're a tv star!

[Minch00]

All the pictures I took while I was on the run are at my MySpace. All these are unofficial and property of, well, me. :D

www.myspace.com/thatguywiththehat


And they'll be on the website soon enough.

[Minch00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GmR-iaVLE