If someone dropped a zillion bucks in my lap, I’d buy and cheat my way to racing glory. We’d relocate the Demaras Racing world headquarters down the I-75 south to Florida and the family would be racing the finest automobiles in the world.
Forget about ice-racing and this polar vortex. We’d be at historic Sebring International Raceway and the Daytona Speedway slathering sunscreen in January. Our team would buy a luxury car-hauler RV with sleeping quarters and two bathrooms. We’d travel around the state beating the Americans as we climb the racing ladder
Since racing is all about money, not only would we buy the latest and greatest machinery, but we’d buy out the top teams and put them out of business! Once the competition is decimated, we’d get exclusive rights to race Aston Martin’s prototype Valkyrie, and hire away the best engineers in the paddock to strategize our way to glory. We’d even get Fernando Alonso to retire from F1 and come over to coach us.
Yes, the dastardly Demaras Racing team would use our wealth to even the playing field for our 15-year-old ‘powderpuff racer‘. Forget about women being kept out of top-tier racing; we’d buy our way in. And if we had to bend the rules on the way to victory, so be it!
Getting just one young woman to the top of the podium would break the glass ceiling. Teams around the world would stop ignoring female racers, and it would inspire other young women to fight sexism by competing at the track.
Love it!
I would totally cheat and bribe my way to glory for Demaras Racing. And while I’m at it, break the glass ceiling keeping female racers down; I’m tired of that crap.
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Then, several years later, my daughter and I will have a Rocky III moment (when Rocky confronts his manager Mickey for arranging ‘fixed’ fights for him) and she’ll have to face the world by herself. But she’ll be filled with skill and confidence.
Sounds epic lol
Excellent post. Maybe you should talk to local billionaire Sherry Byrdson about donating a billion dollars to Demaras Racing to help advance women’s racing.
No way. Sherry would expect us to win fair and square. With limitless cash I’m buying my way to the top. The most sophisticated equipment, the fastest cars, the best coaches. And if we had to bend the rules to make it happen, so be it.
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And I think that cheating for a good cause is like a get out of jail free card. Doing a bad thing for a good reason. That’s how I rationalize it to myself.
Damn! An honest businesswoman. I guess you have to ask Bill Gates, then!
As long as we told him that’d we’d dominate the market, Billy G would be with us.
A fine and excellent plan.
If Lance Stroll’s dad could buy him the Aston Martin F1 team, plus Fernando Alonso and Adrian Newey… I can buy my kids a winning race car!