263 replies to this topic

[Matthew VanVurst]

Charbonneau for president it is!

[Mike Collins]

Who let Von C post outside of his personal forum?

[Glenn]

Who let Von C post outside of his personal forum?

Your the moderator!

[FTodaro]

Hey Mike, Von C's post were a refreshing change. I am surprised it took him so long, Go Von C.

[BreathlessPerformance]

Here is the race from the caution to the finish with about 6 laps left. We were in 4th at the green and moved to first at the end.

Ernie Francis

[BreathlessPerformance]

And it goes on again off the subject. Stop being a sore loser. If you want me you know where to find me. Stop hiding behind the keyboard. It seems like the same group of guys again. The Chip and Matt Show...lol

Hey Matt are you still talking smack? The Corvette runs in the fastest run group for NASA and SCCA. Come run us at Sebring, hope you can run sub 2:10's if you have a car. Is the viper still around? We can meet at a NASA ,SCCA or FARA event if you like. If you beat us I will accept it, congratulate you and shake your hand. We will be at Homestead the 19-20 bring something to run with the vette. You can look up our last mylaps at Sebring if you like when we were just playing with the car.


Ernie Francis

[Glenn]

And we are off again! Round???? 8 , 9 I lost count.......

[BreathlessPerformance]

But then again it was all about the video and now its up. I wish the Chip gang would watch the video and keep the subject to the Mazda2 and there claim it was a cheater car. Stand behind your claim or take it back. If it was not a cheater car take your words back and act like a man. If you still think its a cheater car take it up with MazdaSpeed.

If you have a problem with me you know where I am and where I race just show up and stop crying on this forum.

Ernie Francis

[Caveman-kwebb99]

Well, for me I have mixed thoughts on the whole cheater car thing, and here is why I say that. You go off at least 5 times, and then beat the guy who puts in a better overall drive leads most of the laps and goes off once. the FCY made a huge difference inthe outcome of this race either way, without it you couldnt have won the race period!

Although you could have a very real arguament that your car just has a competetive advantage. I say that because of the braking advantage, as well as nearly everytime you come off the infield back onto the oval, you get wheel spin, and the car in front of you normally pulls away coming onto the oval as you wheel spin yet you run him down normally by the end of the oval straight before entering the infield again. Mazdaspeed has nothing to do with it being a cheater car, that guilt falls on the driver of every car. You guys are always talking about all the work you are doing on the cars, so how would Mazda be at fault here. Grand Am, does has the responsibility IMO to really look into the car, is it just a performance advantage or an intentional cheat? to me it is their reputation on the line, as well as yours as the driver, and owner. Were it me I would leave my sons name out of all of this since he really isnt the owner or the driver, even though it's kinda his little baby.

I was not there so I really dont know, others were there, so their arguments might be either more biased or more accurate. I do give you props for posting the vid up! I am not Matt but If I had a Corvette I would take your challenge but alas I do not.

Just my opinions and I approve of this message

[BreathlessPerformance]

Were are there videos? Did they have wheel spin? Did I manage the wet conditions better? Yes as I said at the begining if we did not get a full coarse yellow so I can clean my windshield to bet able to see I would not have won the race. But the cards were in my favor, with the windshield clean I could see and put some fast lap times down like I did in practice and qualifying. By the way there was not that much wheel spin, I dropped a gear to second and the revs went up quick. I pulled on every brake point and corner exit. For the lead change if you know Homestead on turn 8 there is a concrete patch on the inside apex. I setup Todd by out braking him in 8 on the outside forcing him to go on the inside where the concrete is where he lost all his grip on exit from slipping on the slick section of concrete. I was able to grip and go for a pass on the inside with faster exit speed but was blocked then I moved to the outside for the pass. If he would have then tried to block it would be a double block move. the rest was history.

As far as the cheater thing i dont think Chip wants me to go down that road.

Ernie Francis

[Andrew Charbonneau]

[BreathlessPerformance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qST5eVLudrQ&feature=g-vrec

That is good...lol

Ernie Francis

[Keith Andrews]

LMAO, I'm getting a Poker Face bumper sticker.

[Matthew VanVurst]

I have room for for one more car in my trailer for Daytona this weekend Ernie.....Would love for you to try to run that miata at a SCCA event...I will tow it for free and let you run on my old tires and my old brake pad's (hope you can still run flat out thru one at this track) I don't hide behind keyboards.I will be at Daytona all weekend if you want to see what my key board looks like (it's real shiny) Momma always said be careful what you ask for!!! http://youtu.be/Vxni-FM-UVA

[BreathlessPerformance]

I have room for for one more car in my trailer for Daytona this weekend Ernie.....Would love for you to try to run that miata at a SCCA event...I will tow it for free and let you run on my old tires and my old brake pad's (hope you can still run flat out thru one at this track) I don't hide behind keyboards.I will be at Daytona all weekend if you want to see what my key board looks like (it's real shiny) Momma always said be careful what you ask for!!! http://youtu.be/Vxni-FM-UVA

You are such a joke. The Chip and Matt show again...lol Sorry but we are getting ready to run the B-Spec with Grand Am the following weekend in NJ then run the Corvette at Homestead the weekend after. Would you like to come play? You said the vette was not setup right and that we should run a faster group. Last I checked we were the fastest at Homestead and Sebring. Come give me a try if you dare. i don’t usually run SCCA other than the Corvette when I want to play. You see Jr cannot race SCCA this year too young so we don’t really care about running Spec Miata there. We rather race the team Corvettes against the GT1 cars.

As far as you towing, you have to be kidding. You do know we are a full service race shop and race team with our own dyno, R&D dept, Carbon Fiber parts manufacture and CNC and we need you to tow us.? .We have 4 semi car haulers that are usually full carrying our cars and customer cars and feel it would be safer to keep our cars with us,,, less chance of parts missing. You know we have a full rental and race fleet of 10 plus Miatas plus support 12 to 15 cars including Corvettes per event with full track support. We also build full race cars like the Corvette’s running SPO- ST1-R1-R2 in the US and GT2 in Europe. We are in the process of building 2 more Grand Am MazdaSpeed3 ST and Mazda2 B-Spec and 2 Corvettes one for here in the states and one for Europe. We are not trying to brag but this is all we do. This is our business. We are a full race shop. 24-7 for the last 15 years.

But here we go again what about the video, any comments? is the car still a cheater car like you said it was? Stick to the point of the post and you calling it a cheater car. You talk crap about the vette and expect me to back down. I called you out to come play in ST1 with me. If you want you can also come run with me in the V8Stockcar challenge, 30 plus GT1, trans am and stock cars racing.

Ernie Francis
www.BreathlessPerformance.com
www.PerformanceWeekend.com

[Matthew VanVurst]

http://youtu.be/NuR1u0pjR3s

[Matthew VanVurst]

http://youtu.be/2u4alpA0H6g ABOUT THE VIDEO WHODINI IS AWESOME AND I JUST LOVE WILL FERRELL! WHAT VIDEO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????? 4 SEMI'S FULL OF CUSTOMERS I MUST HAVE MISSED THEM WITH MY LITTLE TRAILER.....YOUR SEMI MUST BE FLAT OUT AS WELL,GO AHEAD AND MOVE ALL FOUR OF THEM TO THE FASTER RUN GROUP..TELL THEM BIG DADDY SAID IT WAS OK!

[BreathlessPerformance]

Flat out? 30 plus? v8? ST1? GT1?

www.V8Stockcars.com

But still back to the video and the car being called illegal?

http://photos3.meetu...0_78118682.jpeg


www.BreathlessPerformance.com

[moovn]

IMO I think the whole Van Vurst Family is a bunch of CHEATERS!!

[BreathlessPerformance]

Did you watch the video of the last 6 laps of the race and your thoughts.

Ernie Francis
www.BreathlessPerformance.com