The Road Testament goes to Greenwich, CT for the 2010 Concours D’Elegance, which means I dress up, JF dresses…like JF, we meet the supercool Michael Lindgren, and best guesses are made where knowledge is sought.
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"Life Value and the Paradoxes of Risk": A Brilliant Essay Everyone Should Read. And I Mean Everyone.
Everyone should read this. So brilliant…it speaks for itself….
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An address by Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
Delivered at the Commencement Exercises of the University of Georgia
Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia
Thank you, President Knapp, members of the faculty, administration, the class of 1989, its family and friends.
President Knapp has drawn attention to the fact that much of my life and career have been involved with taking risks. It’s the sort of introduction which usually arches a few eyebrows. A person who takes risks for a living calls up the image of a riverboat gambler, someone who lives on the edge — in the chips today, down on his luck tomorrow.
From an early age, we are all conditioned by our families, our schools, and virtually every other shaping force in our society to avoid risk. To take risks is inadvisable; to play it safe is the counsel we are accustomed both to receiving and to passing on. In the conventional wisdom, risk is asymmetrical: it has only one side, the bad side. In my experience — and all I presume to offer you today is observations drawn on my own experience, which is hardly the wisdom of the ages — in my experience, this conventional view of risk is shortsighted and often simply mistaken.
Alex Roy, J.F. Musial, and Josh Vietze depart from Mission Control in NYC, piloting the legendary Polizei Interceptor 144A to Homestead Raceway in Miami. After 22 leisurely hours, 14 coffees, 67 law enforcement sightings, countless Black & Mild Wood Tips, 2 Waffle House Aprons, and 4,435 photos, we bring you this video.
Villeneuve, Richard, Roy. 144P. The TRG crew in action. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Polizei Interceptor 144P. The Rolex Grand-Am Series at the Verizon Festival of Speed.
Part 2: Two Drivers, One Cup Car.
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.
We’ve got a crew together here at the Polizei Nerve Center at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Click below to watch the live coverage on Speed with added coverage from Team Polizei and our motley crew of race-fan miscreants. Think Mystery Racing Theater 3000.
TURN UP THE VOLUME & watch in HD if you can.
THIS is IT.
THIS is what all of the videos we’ve posted in recent months…yes…THOSE videos which had no apparent purpose or explanation…THIS is what they’ve all been leading up to:
Behold. Polizei Interceptor 144P in ALL its tentacled glory.
Watch as Rene Villeneuve takes her around Infineon Raceway for the first time as we prep for our debut at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Sunday May 17th.
I couldn’t be more proud than to see Villeneuve & Henri Richard pilot 144P in Polizei livery starting this Sunday.
I wish them the best of luck.
Tired of parking with the rabble? Prepared to show your allegiance to your favorite (and most infamous) faux-law-enforcement-cum-Grand-Am-race-team and meet other like-minded fans while saving money? How? The Polizei 144 Parking Corral at this weekend’s Verizon Festival of Speed at Laguna Seca!
The first 20 fans to register will receive $10 parking spots in our own reserved, private corral. That’s half-off. The limited spaces are reserved for Saturday & Sunday — May 16-17 — and are available on a first-come, first-served reservation-only basis. E-mail us at info AT teampolizei.com to RSVP now!
Just one week away from Team Polizei’s professional racing debut, we’re putting out an APB for all gamers to come out to San Jose this Saturday for a chance to go wheel to wheel with us (or joystick to joystick) at Best Buy in Santana Row. Fastest lap time on our racing simulator will get a special all-access credential to be part of our pit crew at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday, May 17.
Even if you’ve no hope of beating anyone, there’s still plenty of reason to come out this Saturday:
