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Post by Calvin on Dec 10, 2009 23:11:29 GMT -5
Lets get to know each other a little more  Question: What driver in the history of Open Wheel racing are you most like Personality wise? Be truthfully  If its your favorite driver and your nothing alike then you cant pick them. Well for for me I have many favorites but the one driver that I'm most like is....... Rick Mears and why Because if you watch ESPN's Sports Century, 75% of his personality matches mine. IMO Have fun ;D |
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Post by clm1545 on Dec 10, 2009 23:33:36 GMT -5
Well, my alltime favorite driver was, is, and will always be Dan Gurney. I hope we are something alike. I'll have to ask Old Calhoun, he knows Dan quite well, and me a little bit.
Craig
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Post by Patrick on Dec 10, 2009 23:38:17 GMT -5
I'm a Jack Brabham type. Why...first he's ancient like me! Jack liked to work on his cars and experiment with them (sometimes too much as they would break from tinkering). He also possessed confidence in what he did as a driver/ constructor. I build my models in a similar way (I break them from handling them too much.).
Patrick
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 10, 2009 23:47:16 GMT -5
Good topic. So let's see; my favorite driver is Mario Andretti but my personality is a very aggressive, Type A person. That suited my years of playing hockey and now with martial arts.
I had a short fuse kind of temper and didn't think twice about giving someone a beatdown. But that was in my earlier years. Since fatherhood changes a guy, I've been much more tolerant. I've always had the sense of humor that I display here, right Chaparral?
Someone else might have to answer this for me. Russ?? I'm thinking it could've been AJ Foyt, but I'm not sure. I can eliminate the following drivers:
Rick Mears
Bobby Rahal
Gordon Johncock
Tom Sneva
Al Unser Sr
Johnny Rutherford
From what I was told, Swede Savage was a pretty aggressive guy. So was Al Unser Jr. Who knows? I must be a hybrid.
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Post by indy on Dec 11, 2009 0:01:17 GMT -5
I'm laid back, competitive, and strategically minded - who else but my favorite Rick Mears Jordan |
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Post by Calvin on Dec 11, 2009 0:17:00 GMT -5
I've always had the sense of humor that I display here, right Chaparral? .....Really....   |
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Post by stonecold44 on Dec 11, 2009 0:24:26 GMT -5
I've always had the sense of humor that I display here, right Chaparral? .....Really.... No, actually it's worse in person. If you can't trade barbs with people you like, then who can you? |
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Post by Calvin on Dec 11, 2009 0:31:17 GMT -5
I've never heard of that saying I had to look it up ;D It must be more of saying from your part of the country or Im just DumB |
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Post by indycals on Dec 11, 2009 0:37:31 GMT -5
I'm cool and calm, don't take things too seriously and I have a dry and sometimes dark sense of humor, so I'll go with Graham Hill.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 0:38:16 GMT -5
WOW!!!
Maybe I need someone else to answer this for me....My All-Time Favorite driver is A.J. Foyt, but I'm glad to say I have none of the tempestuous traits of Foyt, but the will to win. Maybe that's why I'm more like Parnelli Jones. I don't take much crap from anyone and I get the job done. I also like, heck, LOVE front engine cars. I wish we'd go back to racing roadsters.
Well Tom, you know me, who I'm I most like? Best to you!
Russ
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 0:45:15 GMT -5
Good topic. So let's see; my favorite driver is Mario Andretti but my personality is a very aggressive, Type A person. Oh Gregg...so is Mario. Wear that title proud. Except you don't whine like Mario used to. Al Unser Sr. once said the hear Vintage Italian Whine was to hear Mario claim he didn't have enough boost on his car at Indy. But one thing is...Mario could drive the whees off of anything he drove, couldn't he? Best to you! Russ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 0:45:26 GMT -5
My personality is probably a lot like Foyt. That's probably why I like him as a driver. I really had to learn to control my temper over my early years. stonecold refers to his hockey, mine was too many years of football! LOL!! But that gave me an outlet to vent. My Grandfather raised me, and he told me "If I ever find out you started a fight I'll whip your A$$, and if you ever lose a fight I'll whip your A$$". I didn't get too many whippings. Much of my personality has a basis in being the best, and not accepting 2nd place............. it can be a problem, it seems.
Mongo
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Post by Calvin on Dec 11, 2009 0:51:18 GMT -5
I have a dry and sometimes dark sense of humor, You must of scored over a thousand on your SAT? ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 0:54:07 GMT -5
From what I was told, Swede Savage was a pretty aggressive guy. My Oldest brother went to High School with David "Swede" Savage and one day at football practice, Savage left my brother, who loved football and retired from the USAF as a General looking out his ear hole on his helmet because of the hit he put on him. Yes. Savage was a "pretty aggressive guy" to say the least. Best to you! Russ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 7:38:13 GMT -5
Favorite driver is Mario Andretti but I am more like John Andretti.
People always say I am a "Nice Guy", maybe to nice at times...
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Post by 2lapsdown on Dec 11, 2009 7:51:30 GMT -5
Bobby Rahal. Laid back, easy to get along with, thoughtful. Until you push the wrong button.
John
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Post by professor on Dec 11, 2009 8:05:18 GMT -5
Foyt,we share the same birthday!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 10:17:30 GMT -5
Paul Tracy...since we share the same last name
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Post by alwaysindy on Dec 11, 2009 10:24:13 GMT -5
I wish that I was like Mears, Gurney,Rahal, or Hill: laid back/ a strategic thinker. I wish sometimes that I didn't have Foyt's outspoken ways and Emmo's competitive mania. So I guess I'll go with Sam Hanks: determined, a dreamer, a risk taker, a charger...
and yeah, I'd cry if I won Indy the way he did...
Tim
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Post by bicv8 on Dec 11, 2009 10:28:54 GMT -5
i would say a tie... scott brayton because i never have bad days because i try to put a good spin on everything..... its why i am a radio show host......... and dennis vitolo..... i am a much better businessman than anything and have no reason to be on a race track!
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Post by illeagle10 on Dec 11, 2009 11:22:18 GMT -5
Eddie Sachs and Scott Goodyear, Always the bride's maid never the bride!!!!
Jim
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Post by mrindy77 on Dec 11, 2009 13:11:36 GMT -5
David Hobbs.....his sense of humor, panache for making up words. While his stats may not rank among the sports elite you just know this guy had one hell of a good time in his years in the seat.....there are the greats and then are those who just had a great time making a living doing what they love....and he lives in Wisconsin...hey so do I.
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