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by **Jad** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:57 am

Just in case you haven't stumbled across it, a reality show on Speed Thursday nights hosted by Tommy Kendal called Setup is pretty entertaining and takes place at Willow Springs.

by **Tawfik** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:44 pm

I have been watching since the last season.
This season seems a bit more fun with having the drivers as teams of 2.

What do you think of teh guy who says he is Nelson Piquet's nephew but yet he didn t remember when his uncle was champion.
Also I thought that this show was for amateur drivers. If you look at the following thread it looks like Mr Piquet drove for a team in ALMS.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...7&postcount=26

by **Jad** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:46 pm

I think he is there purely to build the "show". They know his story, they just want to make it interesting for us whatever it is.

Sure would be fun to be on the show and I know I could beat the guy the spun 3 times and the chic that stalled it and mis-shifted 3 times :wink:

by **993Panzer** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:48 pm

Tawfik wrote:I have been watching since the last season.
This season seems a bit more fun with having the drivers as teams of 2.

What do you think of teh guy who says he is Nelson Piquet's nephew but yet he didn t remember when his uncle was champion.
Also I thought that this show was for amateur drivers. If you look at the following thread it looks like Mr Piquet drove for a team in ALMS.

http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum...7&postcount=26

Tawfik,

You link doesn't work for me.

let me try IE. I hate Micro$oft.

by **Tawfik** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:44 pm

Try this:
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh ... stcount=26

by **Pete Millikin** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:21 pm

I like the idea of the show but they manufacture quite a bit of drama to make it interesting for televison. Like many reality TV shows the particpants are put under a lot of pressure. Some do well and some not so well. It is fun watching how it shakes out. I'd bet on those with karting experience vs the autox folks based on the racing experience. The Piquet nephew seems like a dim bulb to me but I guesss he has skills.

BTW and a bit off topic, I found Top Gear on the BBC channnel #345 airing Monday nights on Cox North County.

by **993Panzer** on Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:08 pm

I watched it last night. They definetly put much more drama in the show than was actually there. Typical reality show, not very real. It is cool seeing places we've been to on TV. I don't think I'd enjoy driving that 1 mile track up on the hill, Horse Thief Hill? There were a few glimpses of the corner workers which I recognized from our events. I'll keep watching.

by **gulf911** on Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:35 am

I watched Thursday....shouldn't they call it NASCAR?? It was like watching bumper cars... :roll:

they warn you for dropping a tire?? Some of the rules are rediculous, and it is definately over dramatized...yeah I'll watch it again... :lol:

by **B Wulff** on Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:31 am

Check out the new promo...
OUCH!!!

http://www.scottgillen.com/screeningroom/

by **cam** on Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:12 pm

Speed has a marathon of Setup on this saturday 3-22 if you missed any. Then Drag Race High after.

by **Tim Comeau** on Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:40 pm

Yeah, I watched the first season of Set Up. I actually applied for the show.
I could tell theat it was not JUST about the driving right away. When they were culling people from the herd initially, I knew they were dumping some pretty fast drivers. I mean, I knew the drivers personally. Even though they were fast, they didn't have a good story behind them or an interesting persona. Bam! Tommy gave them the axe.
I thought that the first season was a given in that Jeremy Croisset would win. He's an experienced road racer and the rest were ........ :wink:

It ain't about driving well, it's about selling commercial time. And Tommy Kendall does a good job of that.

by **Tawfik** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:30 am

Did u watch the last episode on Th?
They were racing on SOW instead of the horsethief mile.
The brazilian dude got kicked out in a not so mice manner by that a$$ of a producer and one of the finalist contenders rolled his car at very highspeed coming down the back straight into the esses trying to pass on the outside into the esses ummmmmm :roll:

by **Tim Comeau** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:28 am

That's not a very bright place to try to pass someone. You can't even see the track in the esses because the ground falls away from you. Sometimes it's smart to pass in unexpected areas of a track, but you really have to think about it.

by **4est** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:56 am

That is a pretty ugly place to carry a lot of speed and try to pass. We had enough offs there in TT. I've seen how evenly matched their cars are, and to get a good drive out of the bowl such that you would eventually pass the guy ahead of you probaby doesn't give you the momentume to get by there. Maybe in the next section just before the skidpad, or the skidpad itself, which would get you by before start/finish.

Personal opinion: Full-On BONE-HEAD move..

by **Tawfik** on Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:23 am

4est: I m sure the driver agrees it was a bone head move, as he passed the other car on the outside his rear right hit the front left of the passed car and he ended up in flight, he barreled a couple times in the air before landing and continue rolling.
Watch the episode!

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