THE ESTROGEN PAGE

 

Leveling the playing field is no small task.  Even the most cursory glance at Wolfcreekracingdotcom provides one with every grease fitting detail of the car, the driver, the history, the events, the records. Right?  So just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another element of this saga, I come along to tell the other side of the story. I am Estrogen and as any sane person knows, Estrogen likes to think she rules!

Home base for Wolfcreekracingdotcom is called Chateaunegativecashflow.  This is my domaine, one I share, sometimes reluctantly, with the car, the trailer, the tools, the equipment, the paraphernalia and all the sounds, both human and mechanical, that are a function of this sport of racing.  Since it is obviously too late to put my foot down, all animate and inanimate objects residing at the chateau do so in a state of détente, tested by the inevitable border skirmish.

When estrogen is in charge at the chateau, flowers bloom, vegetables grow, the grass is green and lush, the shrubs are trimmed and neat, the neighbors smile.  When estrogen is in charge, spare tires are stacked neatly out of sight, tools are returned to their assigned storage location, spent oil is taken to the recycling center, storage cabinets are organized and things can actually be found. When estrogen is in charge, things that no longer have any logical or practical use are thrown out.  More about that later.

While it is fairly obvious that estrogen rules professional race car teams, as one can literally eat off the floor of their shops, it is equally clear that between the months of April and October, estrogen disappears from the chateau and fights for recognition the other 6 months of the year.  Despite all that, the role of estrogen in the grand scheme of things cannot be understated.  My primary purpose is to keep things in balance, logical, reasonable and neat so we don't completely irritate the neighbors.  Bottom line,...estrogen's primary functions are to fetch or hold this or that tool in a crisis situation and bleed the brakes. (She's very good at that, up...down...up...down, ed.).  While this is not always easy, there are those moments when estrogen is rewarded for the effort.

The comic George Carlin used to talk about people stuff! - that inventory of items that is absolutely mandatory for the average joe to get through a portion of any given day.  Wolfcreekracingdotcom is loaded with stuff.  We have tool stuff, supply stuff, fluid stuff, mechanical stuff, equipment stuff, rubber stuff, metal stuff, plastic stuff, paper stuff, stuff with names I can't spell and stuff who's very shape confuses me.  We have green stuff, bluish stuff, brown stuff, red stuff, foamy stuff.  We have stuff that plugs in and stuff that functions on batteries.  We have stuff that carries other stuff and stuff that makes other stuff work.  We are stuff heaven and according to the team driver and chief mechanic, every bit of it is absolutely mandatory to get through any given day.  As Carlin explained it, the success or failure of an event or series of events on any given day hinges on the selection of stuff that must be readily accessible and appropriate to that event.  Wolfcreekracingdotcom has neatly solved this dilemma by taking everything...........everywhere.

Packing everything is an art form and an unappreciated one at that. There is only one basic requirement to succeed and that is a sufficiently supply of "containers".  wolfcreekracingdotcom probably holds the world record for its supply of containers.  This is because the team driver and chief mechanic believes that every item on the planet has the potential to be reclassified as a container after its initial purpose has been completed.  Estrogen begs to differ and her argument is compelling.  Had God wanted old coffee cans to be used as a holding bin for an obscenely large collection of every nut, bolt, washer and screw ever devised, she would not have provided the concept of recycling!

Getting back to the art form, Wolfcreekracingdotcoms ultimate container is a 24 foot trailer lovingly handcrafted by the teams "gran pere".  As containers go, its pretty impressive so of course it had to be named. The USS Nimitz seemed appropriate and the moniker has remained without the benefit of blessing by the Navy, who may not be amused.  The original plan for the Nimitz was to carefully partition off the interior to create dedicated areas for automotive stuff and household stuff.  Something got lost in the translation and the creation to date has resulted in a serious encroachment of automotive stuff into household space. Be assured, the negotiations continue to resolve this problem but estrogen is not optimistic about any significant improvement before the 2000 season.

As this web site develops estrogen will be back to discuss the myriad of issues that require her attention prior to departing the chateau for a race weekend. One of these is the proper containerization of a racers four basic food groups: potatos, hops, sugar and carbonation.  Another is how to make the track dining experience at least a step above that offered at White Castle while still having enough money for that set of spare tires.

After all, there ARE priorities here!