No rain tires, no racing.
After days of practice, and an amazing starting position, only Mother Nature could stop Andy Lally’s assault on the Glen…and that’s exactly what she did. Rain and wet track conditions forced today’s NASCAR race to be postponed until Monday at noon. So we will have to wait one more day to find out who shall be victorious. The storms have cut off Herr Roy’s wireless access, but he is still at the track trying to keep dry while searching for the TRG hospitality tent. But do not fear, he is promoting the true Polizei spirit of friendship by sampling many free food plates from other teams’ hospitality tents. Bon Appetit! Check back later for more updates…
Upstate NY morning scenery as seen through the rearview of 144A.
This morning has been filled with uncertainty and unexpected events. Overnight storms and wet weather has been threatening today’s NASCAR race, and many of us are having flashbacks to The Bog. As Kommandant Roy was navigating up River 17…sorry, I mean Route 17 to Watkins Glen, he was flagged off the road by our friends in blue. All of us at Polizei HQ East and West checked under our matresses for bail money when we awoke to this text message from Roy, ‘This cop is curious and not a NASCAR fan.’ Leave it to Roy to find the only Trooper in NY who is NOT a NASCAR fan only miles from the track on raceday!
To our relief Roy is back on the road and ready to rendezvous with Andy Lally and the rest of team TRG at Watkins Glen. The track is drying out and order seems to be restored to the kingdom. Our live race webcast featuring Master Pilot Rene Villeneuve, and the most feared man in Forza 2, John Morley, will be broadcasting soon…
In honor of TRG’s Andy Lally’s herculean effort of racing in this weekend’s Rolex Grand-Am race, AND tomorrow’s NASCAR race at Watkins Glen for TRG, we salute Lally by taking off our helmets and putting on our patches. Wearing this patch not only adds to your cool factor, but will enable you drive for hours and hours without fatigue…just ask Lally. You can now order your TRG patch directly from the patch store.
It was Morley vs. Roy in Forza. It was many things. It was amazing. It was MotoGP @ Laguna Seca. And Team Polizei WILL return. Because I...WE...loved every minute among our 2-wheeled friends. And they enjoyed watching Morley crush Roy. Once. Just once.
Have you ever felt the like the best part of an epic wasn’t the actual driving, but the stories and friends made on the way? That’s the feeling among all at Team Polizei after our first Moto GP weekend.
Danny Pedrosa gave The Doctor some bad medicine, but that was only 48 minutes of our far more grueling 76 hour deployment at Laguna Seca. We made some great friends, including soldiers, police officers and myriad emergency personnel – native and foreign, active and retired – every one of them a fascinating and delightful new face we hope to see again…on the road preferably, for it’s those chance second meetings that only occur on the road – far from home – that make life worth living.
As for Roy…the Forza 2 king wwas dethroned and new champions were crowned. We ate too much pizza and didn’t get nearly enough sleep. Wearing a helmet and leathers on two wheels may be crazier than driving on four, but is anything crazier than us wearing some…er…newly de-classified helmets whilst droving 144B? Probably not. Except for El Jefe Liz Moses getting on TV again. Again. Or maybe Team Polizei’s Mystery Racing Theater 3000 commentary on the actual race.
About which Alex Roy knew nothing. And still knows nothing. He was too busy buying motocycle helmets to match his outfits, solely to use them as man purses. Yes. It’s true. He doesn’t even know how to ride. A bicycle…maybe.
Would we do a Moto GP weekend again?
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Thanks for all your support…we will be posting more news and picsin the next few days!
After a successful mission of making friends and influencing people at our debut race, our friends at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca have invited us back for the most prestigious motorcycle race in the US, Moto GP! So for all those fans that missed our debut race at Laguna Seca, now is the time to come back and join us in our Mobile HQ unit to hear what we’re planning for the rest of the race season.
In addition to our usual showcase of tech, games, and our signature Skirmish 1 jacket, we will also be previewing our ‘”classified” leather jacket that will be realeased this Fall, and new skill set patch for all our fans that ride. Master Pilot Henri Richard will also be revealing his very special Ducati in our Mobile HQ booth as well. And fear not all you die hard fans, Kommandant Roy will be crusing the grounds and showing off 144B all weekend. There may be a few more surprise announcements coming soon, so get your tickets to Moto GP now.
Once again Team Polizei accomplishes the impossible, for we’ve secured a special viewing of Forza 3! Team Polizei will be getting a sneak peek of Forza 3 this Saturday during the AXF 24 (Audi Forza Challenge). We were invited as distinguished guests of honor… ok, we actually just had to register online to get tickets for the AXF 24 race at Audi of New York. Nine of the best Forza 2 gamers were selected to form three teams of three drivers, and they will play Forza 3 in a 24 hour endurance race which will run concurrently with the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Team Polizei will be at Audi of New York around noon to witness this historic event, while we also gaze in awe at the new Audi R8 V10 5.2 FSI and R10 TDI. If lady luck is on our side, our German regalia will let us sneak past the authorities at Audi so we can actually demo Forza 3…or at the very least, allow us cut any lines so we can fill our pockets with the fine hors d’oeuvres that are served. So if you need to take a break from watching the actual 24 Hours of Le Mans, the AXF 24 is going to be the next best race to watch.
Great trilogies are rare, very rare. I can only think 2 trilogies where each subsequent chapter was as good as the first and left fans clamoring for more-Star Wars (episodes IV-VI), and the Lord of the Rings. Too often the 3rd installment of a series falls flat and angry fans deny it even existed, as was the case with T3 and the Godfather 3. But anyone who has seen the previews for Forza 3 knows that we are about to dawn on the age of another great trilogy.
Forza 2 helped us focus and prepare for many epic drives, but the new features in Forza 3 may acutally make us better drivers. The screenshots look disturbingly realistic, and “improved physics and tire flex modeling” has me salivating like a Pavlovian puppy. I have no idea what tire flex modeling is, but it sounds amazing and will probably lead many novice drivers to become very familiar with tire barricades and gravel pits. The October 2009 release date sounds really far away, but Team Polizei is already forming a crack team of operatives who will try to get an advanced testing round of game play. If this game even comes close to the claims, we can all look forward many sleepless nights and empty cans of Red Bull this winter.
Why does Rendezvous continue to inspire generations of new drivers? Would the white wash trick in Cannonball Run II really fool police? What lessons can be learned from watching LeMans? Come find out the answers to these questions and other mysteries of the universe as Alex Roy hosts Mystery Polizei Theater 3000 on Friday night at Watkins Glen. Stop by our Mobile Polizei HQ booth at the race for viewing times and how to get your preferred seating tickets. There may even be some sneak peak…er…never before seen footage of a certain film about driving cross-country…really quickly. So come join us in the peanut gallery at one of the most anticipated non-race events of the year.
Are cool GM police interceptors gone forever?
It is a sad day in the automotive world as GM files for bankruptcy, but while everyone worries about its stock price, restructured debt obligations and fire-sale prices for its subsidiaries, we at Polizei HQ are sad for another reason, because GM’s passing marks the end of the era of cool police interceptors. Sigh.
Today, Team Polizei salutes the two finest police vehicles GM ever produced; the 1992 F-body CHP IROC B4C RS interceptor, and the 1996 LT1 Caprice 9C1 police cruiser…
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