UNLIMITED TWO

Career Highlights
1st Place January 1999 Touring Car Club Race
2nd Place February 1999 Alfa Romeo Club Race
4rd Place Aug 1998 PRO Enduro
8th Place Sept 1998 LA PRO Street Race
4th at Virginia City Hill Climb 2000

1-800-Phoneguys buys and sells refurbished business multi-line phone systems.  Get 30%-50% off on your Norstar/Panasonic Phone system by calling 1-800-Phoneguys!

Visit Pulp Racing, the Best Website in the world for Real Life Racing Stories

by BP

I want to see some lap times published for the world to see.  I would like to have this event be the starting point for an Encyclopedia of Lap Times.   What do drivers in a stockish Vipers/RX-7/Civics turn for lap times at Willow Springs.  What about fully raced out Porsches/NSXs/Integras run at Pahrump?  What does an SUV turn at Thunderhill with a good driver in it?  Which drivers are clearly the best drivers on these west coast tracks?   I want to see how I stack up, and I want to hang out with track guys and learn some tips/tricks from those people who have more experience than me.  Most of all, I want to have a good time hanging out with people who want to pretend they are Michael Schumacher for an entire week.  People who track their cars and are hooked on the go-fast crack pipe are fun to hang out with.

How competitive do you think you'll be in 2002 and what kind of preparation are you already putting into your campaign?

We plan on being very competitive.  Seven tracks in seven days is a very tough thing to do, and I don’t think people realize how challenging this event is going to be.  We are working out at the gym for strength and endurance, racing 125cc Tony shifter karts to learn about maximum adhesion, and we have a secret training plan that we can’t reveal.  We are also building an exact replica of the Flamemobile, down to the individual bolts and decals, so if we blow it up trying to run a 1:26 at Willow using our “secret sauce”, we are going to do a Siegfried and Roy and magically swap in the replicar when no one is looking.  Be forewarned of those cheating bastard tactics!

Let's assume that Larry gets tired of your crap by the 2nd day.  If you could bring in any Formula One or Champ Car driver to take his place as your co-driver, who would it be and why?

Kimi Raikonen.  He’s a young guy, which  has lots of advantages.  Mainly because he has lots of hot babes from Finland, Holland, and Amsterdam chasing him, which would brighten up our pit area.  He’s an ex-karting champ from just a couple of years ago, so I could probably get a couple of quick karting lessons in between run groups at the track.   He probably drinks a lot and knows how to have fun.  He can translate all those terms that us old farts over 40 don’t know like “props”, “phat”, etc, so we don’t look like dumb asses when having a conversation with a person in their 20’s. 

Which state in the continental United States is the leader in the production of wheat?

This sounds like a trick question.  I will say California, because more wacky genetic cloning of wheat genomes is done here.  That is my definition of “production”, as opposed to which state leads in actually “growing” wheat.

You've owned the NSX for nearly a decade now and done enumerable events.  Take a few moments to describe your track experience with the car and where you'd like to go with it in the future.

The NSX has been a great car to track and have fun with.  A stock NSX will go forever without breaking.  However, the more mods you put into the car to make it go faster, the likelihood of breaking goes up exponentially.  But when a highly modified car is working good, and you are blowing by those Vette/Viper/Porsche/Ferrari drivers, it makes it all worthwhile.  As for the future, we have a couple of little tricks up our sleeve that will enable us to get another good year of racing out of it.  Things like a supercharged, o-ringed, steel sleeved, high boosting, barn burning motor that will debut next year….coincidentally right about May 2002…..but then again if the stock market doesn’t recover, I won’t have the cash to get the motor back from the engine builder….

Vegas...quite possibly the greatest city in the world?

No.  It is THE GREATEST city in the world.  Show girls.  High speed stadium road course.  Free drinks.  Medium speed road course.  Blackjack.  High speed karting track.  Gentleman’s Clubs.  Nearby Pahrump has a really fun, tight road course.  Bath Houses.  Plenty of video racing games. High stakes gambling.  What other city in the WORLD has all of the above? 

Put yourself in the shoes of the average OTC competitor who just spent a week on track and driving around the western US with you.  Now, finish this sentence, "Doug and Larry...now those guys know how to ___________________________________".

“Piss me off by passing me under braking, in front of all my friends, who then rag on me about how that six cylinder rice mobile is whooping my American Iron/Italian/German ass.  Those two guys also spend a lot of time laughing and ragging on each other and their teammates”

Name the five most beautiful race tracks in the world.

The Virginia City Hill Climb.   The Las Vegas Karting Track.  The LA Street Race.  Sears Point.  Thunder Hill.  My definition of “Beautiful” means that the track scares the living crap out of you, and that is why I chose those tracks.  Being scared at the track is a beautiful thing…..because then you can conquer your fear of falling off the hillside, or crashing in to a pole, or hitting a concrete barrier.  Conquering fear is a beautiful thing, especially on a race track.  It means you have faced Death, stared it down,  and kicked its ass.

In your opinion, what's the best advice you can give to OTC competitors as they begin preparing for the event?

As the red NSX with flames on it passes you down the straightaway, notice my braking/turn-in/apex points.  The first lesson is free.  The second time cost you an Andrew Jackson. 

Are we done here?

Don’t forget to visit my sponsors at www.pulpracing.com, www.1800phoneguys.com, and www.nsxmodified.com.