It's the typical Thursday lull.. Let's see if we can change that!
Introducing #STBT (SNAILThrowbackThursday)
STBT Rules:
- Anyone can start a topic.. as long as it's Thursday
- You have to include a picture (or video) with your STBT post
- Stay on topic - don't post a picture of "your first girlfriend" if the topic is "your first car" (unless your first car was your first girlfriend..
)
I'll give everyone five minutes to start the first STBT topic. If nobody does, I'll start one.
Here's one for you. But it's a very recent throwback!
I joined GTPlanet back in 2009 when I was informed of the site by 2 guys (1 an American, the other Portuguese) whom I met in an online lobby playing a game called Ferrari Challenge. We became friends and raced against each other regularly and the group began to grow. We raced with guys from all over (USA, Canada, Brazil, Ireland, England, Finland, Germany, Holland and Portugal) and graduated through different games like Supercar Challenge, Superstars V8 Racing and onto GT5.
Over the last couple of years alot of the guys have moved on, some to the likes iRacing, others to trackday driving and yet others to God knows where and we don't hear from most of them. But, as it happens, I have stayed in touch with the 2 GTP guys that I originally met and we share our stories of trackday driving and, in the case of my Portuguese friend Mario, hillclimb competing.
Mario is a big fan of Morgans and he owns and competes in a Morgan Plus 4 so when I heard of the launch of the Morgan 3 wheeler
I immediately thought of Mario and how he'd love that and, well, I was right. Towards the end of last year he informed me he was buying one! 👍
Not only that, he also told me that the plan was to collect the car, at the Morgan factory, and bring it on a roadtrip home which included a visit to Ireland to meet up with me!
To cut a long story short, we met up the week before last and I got to drive the craziest and most fun car I've ever driven! As you can see from the following photo, Mario fits into it better than I do!
Personally, I just think it's brilliant that people with a common interest in online racing can meet up and forge long lasting friendships and I certainly feel that in my relatively short time as a member of SNAIL that similar friendships are evolving.