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1992 Articles featuring the 1992 Nissan Sentra SE-R Showroom Stock "B" Race Car This was the first season of National Racing for the Rhino boy team. Steady progress was made throughout the season and...
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1993 Articles featuring the 1992 Nissan Sentra SE-R Showroom Stock "B" Race Car After a strong finish in 1992, this season was a fantastic one for the Rhino boy team. The team picked up where it had...
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1994 Articles featuring the 1993 Toyota MR2 Showroom Stock "B" Race Car This was a banner year for the Rhino boy team. The team started the season using the '92 Sentra, but switched to the Toyota...
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1995 Articles featuring the 1995 BMW M3 Showroom Stock "A" Race Car These articles follow the Rhino boy 1995 racing season. The first article was written before the BMW M3 came into the stable. The...
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National CENDIV 1992 Season Opener copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates The 1992 Central Division season opener looked from the start to be the normal, rainy April race at IRP. Rob Jones and I arrived...
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CENDIV Showcase National at Blackhawk copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates I desperately needed a test day. I hadn't been to Blackhawk since 1989 and could scarcely remember my way around the track....
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A Little Time Off copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates The last issue of The Observer's Stand contained results from the recent National at Nelson Ledges. Too bad, really. I hadn't planned on...
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Mid-Ohio National; July 4-5, 1992 copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates When I decided to report my season to the masses I didn't take into account the fact that I might have to write some depressing...
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Indy Grand Prix Showcase National copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates This year's second National race at Indianapolis Raceway Park held more promise for me than any other race this year. Perhaps...
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Michigan National copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates True to form, I picked the car up from Buckeye Nissan on the day we were to leave for this race. We've all had these last-minute ordeals . . ....
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Bill Benham Memorial National copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates The National race at Nelson Ledges earlier this year had been a huge disappointment for me. Blown motor aside, things had been looking...
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WOR Games Regional copyright (c) 1992 by Terry Coates I needed to take a break from writing these articles so I thought I'd have someone else take the pen this time. The Buckeye Nissan Sentra SE-R...
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A good wife, a good van, a good car copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates As an egocentric male humanoid, I find it very difficult not to oversee and approve virtually everything that I feel falls...
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1993 CENDIV Season Opener at IRP copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates Racing Luck. We've all heard of it and most have experienced it through our respective auto-based competitions. It seems I can't...
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A Hard Fought Battle copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates "The most fun I've ever had in a race car!" That was the runner-up title for this article. I believe that was Rob Jones' comment after the race...
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CD-ROC copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates The 1993 Central Division Race of Champions at Mid-Ohio was a fine event. There were perhaps a few more wounds in Showroom Stock than normal. Worse yet, I...
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The Michigan National copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates This year's Grattan Showcase race was held over the Memorial Day weekend rather than mid-summer. It was cooler than last year and, thankfully,...
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June Sprints copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates Practice Session: Never seen the track before. Qualifying Session 1: Second in class. Qualifying Session 2: Pole in class. Race: Won June Sprints. I...
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The Indy Grand Prix copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates It took until July, but we finally had the first miserably hot race weekend of the year. The great heat of early July will have passed by the...
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Mid-Ohio National copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates There is no question about it. 1993's Mid-Ohio races have contained my two poorest moments of the season. The first, you might remember, was the...
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Jack Pine Sprints copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates I've had really great events and a couple of relatively bad events this year, but Brainerd was a healthy dose of the best and the worst. For...
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The 1993 Runoffs copyright (c) 1993 by Terry Coates Over the years I've written a fair number of "first" articles. My first PRO Rally. My first road race. My first crash. My first win, etc. I was...
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BACK! copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates The off-season didn't seem very long. I remember what a relief it was when last season was finally over. For all the things I enjoy about weekends at the...
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The Big Switch copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates The secret wasn't too well kept that a new car had come into my posession just before Christmas ("new" to me, anyway, it was a 1993 Toyota MR-2...
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Good Moments, Again copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates I know what this looks like. No articles appear from these fingers when things aren't going well, but the dry spell is coincidentally over in...
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What Almost Didn't Happen copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates A little disclaimer before we start. This race, to date, was the best race I'd ever been in. It was close, exciting, and clean. The...
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The Michigan National copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates We had high hopes for the Grattan race. It should be an "MR2 track", but I was apprehensive. We had expected the same of Blackhawk and were...
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Buckeye Sprints copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates Two races left in the season--two wins short of the Central Division Championship. The first of these last races was Mid-Ohio, the place where...
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In Search of the CENDIV Championship copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates There aren't too many good reasons to tow one thousand miles to a race in Brainerd, Minnesota. Some go because they need those...
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1994 Valvoline Runoffs (tm) copyright (c) 1994 by Terry Coates The harbingers were wrong. The Runoffs' move to Mid-Ohio did not signal the end of the earth. I have heard two "reports" of how badly...
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. . . to Back on the Streets copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates The current state of the Showroom Stock "B" classifications is a mess. Once the regular season gets underway, it will be difficult to...
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The Waiting is the Hardest Part copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates Two hundred twenty-nine days without a lap behind the wheel of a race car. That's approximately 32.714286 weeks or, very roughly,...
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Halfway Through Already copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates As I write this, we have had the car one month and three days. We have run five races over four weekends and only four races remain in the...
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First Overall copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates Ah, life is full of firsts. The first driver's school, first race, first pole, first win (oh sure, there are first loves, and all that junk, too, but...
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Season Wrapup copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates The Buckeye Sprints, NeOhio's August National race at Mid-Ohio used to be a typical late-year race: Almost no one showed up. Late in the year we all...
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The 1995 Valvoline Runoffs (tm) copyright (c) 1995 by Terry Coates Well I'm certainly going to know how to spell disappointment before this article is through. Perhaps my best season yet ended on lap...
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