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Excuses for not winning

Started by slotbaker , Jan 13 2013 10:09 PM

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#26 backintheslot

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 03:44 PM

From the fourth lane on my boxers were chafing....

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 05:29 PM

There must be a target on my car...

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#28 Gator Bob

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 05:36 PM

I got beat by my loaner .... I picked the wrong car Again!

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#29 LindsayB

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 05:43 PM

I was too busy having fun.

I was trying to knock Joe off rather than racing

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#30 Zippity

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 06:01 PM

Oh Crap!

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#31 backintheslot

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 06:18 PM

I needed more motor...

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#32 Phil Hackett

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 06:57 PM

Slow turn marshals. They kill my race every time I de-slot!

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#33 Tex

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 08:01 PM

I've always hoped that, when asked by the sports reporter the biggest reason why they didn't win, the coach would say "The other team scored more points".

The biggest reason I didn't win was the other guy got more laps.

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 08:11 PM

Too busy trying to talk on the phone while racing!

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#35 John Miller

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 09:07 PM

They stole my ™.

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#36 Cactus Hobbies

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 09:32 PM

I lost... the other guy won... end of story.

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#37 backintheslot

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 09:35 PM

My talent overrode my ability...

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#38 Tim Neja

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 09:50 PM

My brain just got a little behind my finger!!

She's real fine, my 409!!!

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#39 redbackspyder

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 09:58 PM

The race was too short for me to prove my ultimate domination!

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#40 Mr. M

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Posted 14 January 2013 - 11:36 PM

I lost it in the ninth heat! (Actually happend once when the lap counter barked and we had to rerun the last heat.)

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#41 backintheslot

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 12:21 AM

How could I win? Everyone that came out of the slot had to do it right in front of me!

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#42 Danny Zona

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:26 AM

I have a turtle head slowing me down because I forgot to use the bathroom. Haha.

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#43 Guy Spaulding

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 12:38 PM

After getting stop-nerfed by someone who tried to let me by, I got so shook up, I fell off twice more that heat :dash2:

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#44 Gator Bob

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 12:50 PM

I have a turtle head slowing me down because I forgot to use the bathroom. Haha.

Haha, good one...

But the big turtle head is working .... race reports show that it ain't slowing you down much. :victory:

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#45 munter

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 01:34 PM

I think this one came from 1/1 racing " everyone ahead of me is cheating and those behind me cant drive for $!%t"

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#46 MrWeiler

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 06:10 PM

I stopped to avoid the wreck in the donut and the marshal leaned (put his hand on my car and leaned over) on MY car while he was trying to reslot the crashed cars...(Happened to me on Sat at the Checkpoint race.) If it had cost me the win I would have hunted him down with a rusty Xacto....

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#47 MrWeiler

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 06:12 PM

I was leading (BIG LEAD) when I stopped for a wreck and the marshal picked up my car (even though it was in the correct lane) and reslotted it in the wrong lane. It got ridered into the top turn wall and broke the chassis.. (also true)

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#48 NSwanberg

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 03:34 AM

White Castles for lunch...............dinner.............breakfast. :bad:

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#49 Zippity

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 03:53 AM

"I went through 14 motors to find one average one that ran a "blistering 4.4 to get me in the D-main" and 13 absolute duds, that couldn't break 4.6. That's a lot of money to spend on motors that I left in the trash can, when I left today."

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