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About racing.

Currently I have had some questions from aspiring young would be future drivers. Today racing is a lot more then just about being a driver but the vast or so to speak " big picture " is very important in driver development.

My first bit of advise to anyone who is an aspiring driver it is that at no time ever should you give up you're dreams.
Giving up you're dreams equates you dying inside. However we need to be very real about a few things. Hope is good, but
it does not get the job done in terms of paying bills, and so on.

You need target objectives and structure in order to be succeed in you're ambitions. Nobody can say 100% at what level or for how long you will race but the average racing
drivers career life span is not exactly very long. So make
the time you are racing count.

Another fatal mistake many young or aspiring drivers make
is going to big too soon. Arriving a bit fashionably late is acceptable. Age does not equate Old and slow, just as Young does not equate fast and vibrant.

Racing does cost a lot of money and one must really consider the consequences for his or her actions. Often times when a individual goes to big too fast they end up hurting them self
economically and even as far as destroying family's.

I never recommend someone risking their future for racing.
Risk is fine, but a calculated risk key. Reckless and stupid well there friends is a whole-other discussion. One in which is
self explaining.

1. Getting a College Education. Do not settle for a trade school or simply a two year. A four year education pays for itself, racing or not. It also gives you more credit when conversing with team mates or a firm sponsors etc. ( Note : Chose something that is world applicable, not a easy A major. )

2. Working you're way up from the bottom breeds strength.
You are entitled to nothing, but with hard work you might
gain that in which you desire most. Listen to those who are willing to speak.

3. Keep you're contacts.

4. Keep you're word.

5. Be truthful, the racing world is small and liars etc. It is very
easy to burn bridges with great ease.

6. Keep Business as Business and Friendships as Friendships
do not mix the two. You'll save you're self a whole lot of heart
ache and trouble this way.

7. Alcoholism, Drug Addiction are paths in which will draw
you way from you're goal. Avoid both. Smoking will not help you're performance but it's you're own vice.

8. The Law : The law is something I suggest you do not abuse.
A lot of young people do like the idea of street racing. I don't
recommend it. 1. Any of the major governing bodies can and
will penalize you for such acts, DUI's, Reckless Driving, Racing
on the street, etc. All of which depending on the series and so
on can result in disqualifications, loss of sponsors or future
sponsors. Pretty much if you lose you're Civilian street license
you're racing license is no longer valid under most situations.

9. Getting a lot of speeding tickets, does two things. A. It raises your insurance sky high and B. Also can render you jobless in the automotive field. Shop owners insurance and or liability for a dealer etc will be too high to keep you staffed. So you won't be behind the for a good long while.

10. Practice, and Practice more. But remember to enjoy it.

M.

Owning such vehicles is something that should  be thought about. Often I have seen people fall pray or heck even victimized by the allure of an exotic or classic or collectors car.

Prospect Ferrari owner? One should consider what their expectations of Ferrari owner ship are and should be for them. Often times I see so many disappointed owners or owners that made emotional decisions and end up with cars that drove
home and spent more time in need of massive mechanical work.

1. One problem I see all to often is owners who spend 10,000-75,000 on a classic or exotic and they end up with a car that really needs to 15,000-50,000 in total over all work.

This easily can sour a first time buyers relationship. 1970's & early 1990's prospect owners should think about some important facts.

This goes for anything Classic and or Exotic, exclusive means limited and often times this means a lack of OEM equipment available. Also repairs and up keep! Often early car owners seem to forget that major overhauls on such cars like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini often require the engine to be dropped for servicing. The parts and labor are never cheap. Often times the dealer is not always capable of servicing Classics.

2. Myths! There is no such thing as a cheap exotic sports car or classic. Get this out of you're head.

With classic cars some of the issues are more due to sourcing parts and keeping things functional and original, for example it is possible to find a Ferrari 308 GTS for 25-37,000. And a Porsche 911sc for 10,500 - 20,000. However the parts are very much still Ferrari and Porsche. This means you will spend Ferrari and Porsche prices for factory original goods, and sometimes you have to use factory original parts.

Need a engine? expect no less then 15,000 and beyond, especially if we are talking factory original or even factory specification. Sometimes some of the parts are not capable of being re used.

Servicing Bosch mechanical fuel injection or Jetronic systems are not exactly cheap. Another problem are emissions and if you are from California is strict about modernized EFI systems and laws are also expanding, ie they change like the wind.

3. Value, Value is a very amusing thing to me. There are a few things to watch out for. Millage can dictate a vehicles price.
But don't always be fooled by millage. ( especially Porsches ) I find cars with a bit of millage on them tend preform much more reliable. This is due to the nature of the flat six design.
When these engines sit for great lengths of time the engines can rot away like a sand castle at the beach as the tide comes in. Ferrari's too!

Specialty cars : Replicas, Tuned, Restored, Cars with
notority etc These can increase the value of a car depending. The quality should exceed that of OEM factory quality. Documentation is absolute.

Race Cars : There is a big difference between a car that was in a GP event and a car that was a Club Race. Race cars are great but you need to expect that these will cost and to keep them original and healthy is not cheap.

Media and Low Balling : The media and market like to attack
numbers. Sure numbers do equate exclusive, but this does not always equate cheap if the production numbers were more. Grade is a small factor but we really should consider what the inflation. People often over look this, value should be matched.
Although it's a neat little trick that the media and market likes to pull on you. If we took 1970-1980's market prices and calculated the inflation of today we would see that these cars actually held or hold a common value and when new were infact identical if not more then Ferrari's or Porsche's of today.

Another issue is that there has been a trend designed into our marketing system of when a new generation is introduced the values of previous generations tend to decrease. This is true but often excessive.

Performance has been in late the recent establishment for sometimes the arguement in value. The validity is often wrong in logic.

Again the market also in the end really comes down to what people are willing to pay, but this is even flawed as missinformation is quite frequent in the automotive industrey.
And popularity and fads are always in and out of fashion.

Mick-

PS, much of the information and things to think about can
be applied to cul

Well here we are up-dating, honestly there is not much going on. Currently I am trying to work on some new Porsche aero parts but it's not exactly the easiest thing to acomplish because fashion changes so rapidly. It's diffacult to create a trend in the California aka ( CAL LOOK ) scene of things. Most firms are playing copy cat. So it's hard to keep things original, and amazingly when you attempt to say exclusive and private for customers you end up with the diffacult task of ( proving you were the first. ) Luckily for me I am not the first and not the last to develope aeros for the 930, 964, 993 and beyond.

In terms of product developement, I am working on advancing the tuning software I already have. The process is time consuming and also application specific. It's not simple to make a replicatable cookie cutter system.

Currently I am working on some new developements for the 996 and 997's for both Carerra and GT3. Why not the Turbo? The turbo is not so much in need of power but superior transfer of the power from the engine to the drive line. So Aero's, Response, Handeling and ofcourse the Gear box and drive line would be ideal to develope. In my opinion.

I would like to focuse a little more on classic cars then modern cars too.

Things I am interested in, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa's, and Yunies Mazda RX7 FC3S, along with his LS400.

Enjoy the day!

Whats New : Not much to be honest.
This entery will be a tad rather short.

Currently I am working on some new combustion chamber, piston, and mechanicism for most applications.

Although at present it appears that the firm will slowly continue to focuse attention towards Porsche and Ferrari until Toyota has produced a sports car with potential.

I still plan to support the usual suspects in terms of Toyota.
Celica, Corolla, Starlet, MR2.

In terms of the near future, it is diffacult to say where the companys tuning and developement focuse will lay. Porsche is where I believe we will be most sucessful and capable of offering top quality solutions. Although I am very interested in modernized solution work for Air Cooled 911's, I am focused on developement work for the present 997 and future. The GT3 ofcourse is of interest, although I have felt that the Carerra S has been over looked and would like to focuse on developements in this arena too.

That and I will continue to only on a side developement private solution work for Ferrari owners. I am focused on developing an Italian developement programme that enables owners of Italian cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alfa etc tuning, repairs and support, as well parts bespoke or factory.

What about Lotus, What about BMW?

BMW, I'll continue to solution work for customers who come on a case by case bases.

Lotus, 100% case by case works.
 
I'll post some photos of some of the latest works that are nearing their finality.

M-

Well here we are only a few hours from the new-year!
A lot will change here at DTM dreamworks and I wish to inform those of you about those changes as they come.

As you can see the website is current under a fresh new re-design for 2010.

I also will be cutting back into developements and cutting back into time slots available for future apointments. Sadly and with regret.

I'll explain more in the comming new year!

Happy Holidays,

Mick~!

I am sorry for the sudden change, and unfortunetly probbly will not up load past blogs since the new year will be here apon us shortly. Please be paciant!