Any Celebs or Sports Stars ?

[Dean3870]

Originally Posted by drooze

Hmmm....maybe my life is different, the Celbs and Racing guys ARE the stars...to me....I grew up and the Racing people WERE the Stars....maybe coming from a Goodyear family and racing being a big part of our lives....but....well..

Garlits, Purdohme, Muldowney, Dont like Force or Kalitta...but they are "Stars" and Celebs in their own right. Outside of Drag Foyt, Andretti, Petty, Eddie Lawson, Santiago Herroro,...etc etc.....

Hmmm....dont know of any baseball, football or basketball stars, who are competent drag racers, might be some, but I also dont know many Drag Racers that can throw 3 pointers or run 100yards dogging an weaving at a pro level.......but they are only stars in their own sport....

Celebs...same thing...I was invited to the Emmys about 2 years ago and I didnt know who was who, I recognized about 4 people by name, Trump because he was in our blacony and stood behind me coming down the red carpet. and like 3 other people...that was it.....My wife (at the time) knew every single one of them.

Guess its all relative , to me the Racing Guys ARE the Stars, and the Celebs....but I dont watch TV so.....they are the people I read about, remeber, and enjoy their exploits.

couldent be said any better!

[MFR440]

Rob Deer, former MLB player with the Brewers and other teams used to race S/St and S/G. He is a hitting coach in the minor leagues and I met him at one of our single-A team's games last year. Nice guy, but we didn't get a chance to talk racing.

Mauri Rose who runs Comp Eliminator is I believe the grandson of the Indy 500 winner with the same name. Not really a celeb, but cool nonetheless.

Didn't Troy Vincent from the Philadelphia Eagles throw a leg over a pro stock bike once or twice? I know he owned a team for a while, but I thought he rode a few times as well.

Steve Goldberg has run a car down the strip at the Norwalk Chrysler Classic a time or two.

We were racing at an IRP bracket race one time, when a group of BMW's and Mercedes rolled in. They were WAY faster than they looked! After one of them lowered the dark tinted windows, I saw that it was Tony Siragusa, then with the Indianapolis Colts. The other rides were also driven by Colts players!