Euro Series 3000

Most of us that are parents today will remember being asked “what do you want to be when you grow up” by our elders and the typical answers would range from astronaut to fireman to rock star or even software genius, depending on one’s mood and personal equation with the query poser. However, few of us would remember NASCAR racing being mentioned as a career when vocational guidance was being given during career counseling sessions in school or college, but thankfully, for kids in modern times, this has changed.

Now, with the excitement, fame and money surrounding NASCAR racing, parents have changed their take on how dangerous or competitive and unreliable it can be as a chosen career and actually getting interested in finding out how their child can become a NASCAR cup race driver. Well, if you too are one such parent, this article contains the basic overview of what you need to know (and explain to your child) about the scope –and nurturing the hope – of being a NASCAR cup racecar enthusiast.

Remember, an early start could actually be a good thing as most professional car racing drivers you see on the telly have started out pretty young (some as young as under 6 years), even if that means they began practicing on go karts and local race tracks; the point here is that they took the challenge early in life and kept to it, no matter what type of car they got to drive. It is thus the spirit of the car racing challenge that needs to spur your child on to his or her dream of developing the ability to keep time, improve lap time and continue to work at moving up the ranks at every stage.

After this sustained action, the next step would logically fall in place – that is, catching the attention of a reputed car owner and then it is NASCAR cup, here I come.

Your child can begin on a dirt or even asphalt track, whichever is locally available, as an affordable start to NASCAR dreams and start practicing in earnest by purchasing a pit pass if this is possible. While there, you chat up crew members, drivers or even officials and possibly crew members, all of who are great resources who can give you their own perspectives and knowledgeable inputs about how to get started on the professional racing car track. Just keep in mind that you catch these busy people at a good time and not when they have a lot on their mind; remember to be courteous so they are encouraged to give you useful tips about getting in to the pro car racing business.

You can find out about minimum age requirements and other eligibility criterion that could help your child train well and qualify in a particular state since some state tracks allow for lower driving age limits as compared to others. Also, for kids too young to qualify, an informed person could guide you to a karting association that is available for local talent, so it pays to enquire at the right places.

Of course, nothing compensates for natural talent for car racing, hard work, practice, and luck to become a NASCAR driver, but building up to driving 500 miles on a 120 degree track temperature is not for the faint at heart. So counsel your child that he or she has to be mentally and physically prepared to rough it out initially through a disciplined exercise program and develop the necessary stamina to stay in the running and that a slim, toned physique will work over a heavier body as in pro car racing the driver’s weight as well as that of the race car contributes to the win.

While most casual bettors spend time focusing on picking winners of a NASCAR race, the real handicappers are busy working away on finding the best value in the match-up bets. In NASCAR betting you’ll find two types of match-up bets, one which features two racers and another that features a group of 4-6 racers generally. The odds are obviously better when you bet on the match-up bets with more racers, but then it also becomes more difficult to pick the winner of the group.I like to stick with the match-up bets with only two racers since you have a 50% chance of winning. If you put in a bit of work you should be able to win anywhere from 60-75% of your bets on a consistent basis which would mean you’d make lots of money. Most online sportsbooks set-up their own match-up bets with racers that they think will finish close to each other, but often times there will be a couple match-ups that scream out to you.

When the NASCAR match-up screams out to you there are a couple things that you need to check. You first need to find out why the line screams out to you. Maybe one of the racers is struggling as of late and therefore the books are trying to suck you into betting on the racer. You should also try to find out how each of the racers did during the test runs and qualifying runs as these are an important look into how the racer is going to perform on race day.

A lot of the time bettors will focus on the match-ups on the best racers in the race, but this isn’t always a good idea. In NASCAR odds, the top racers are always swapping places on the leaderboard every race and it can be difficult placing one racer above the other in any given race. If you look at the middle group of racers finding value becomes a lot easier as the competition is more thinned out. Most sportsbooks will also set-up the match-up bets based on the qualifying positions.

So if one racer has an extremely good qualifying run when they generally start near the back they might be involved in some match-up bets that they wouldn’t otherwise be involved in. If you find racers that usually finish near the back in match-up bets because they finished good in the qualifying round you should look at betting against them.

When you bet on the match-up bets with 3+ racers you’re going to need to rely more on luck. When you have 3-6 racers grouped together in a match-up bet almost any of them can win the group and therefore finding an edge or value in the bet is nearly impossible. One of the racers in the group might not stand a chance, but that doesn’t narrow the bet down enough for you. If you’re up some money and you want to have a bit more excitement on race week then you can throw down some small wagers on the larger group bets, but try sticking to the match-up bets with two racers when possible.

While betting on actual football games can be quite fun, it is also a blast to place prop bets on football players and football teams. A fan of football can bet on the amount of games their favorite team will win or they can bet on events surrounding their favorite football player’s life.

In order to place a prop bet on football teams or football players, one must set up a betting account at an Internet sports book. Once the account is established, the football betting account must be funded through the use of a credit card, debit card, e-wallet or wire transfer. After funding the account, one can prop bet at will.

There are many different types of prop bets. In football, a prop bet can be placed on events of a player’s life. For example, Ben Roethlesberger has made headlines recently with his off field antics. A prop bet regarding Big Ben’s life might look like the following:

Which will happen to Ben Roethlesberger first (Prop bet has action until February 12, 2012)?

Get Married 20 to 1

Father a Child 20 to 1

Win the Super bowl with the Pittsburgh Steelers 12 to 1

Leave the Pittsburgh Steelers 4 to 5

Go to prison 100 to 1

In this sample prop bet; one would select which scenario is most likely to occur first. The bet has a drop dead date of February 12, 2012. This means that if none of the above happen before then, the bet does not pay. However, if Ben gets married before any of the other events occur, those betting such will be paid 20 to 1 on their wager.

In addition to betting on football player’s life events, you can bet on individual players on field performance. For example, Adam “Pacman” Jones is attempting to return to the gridiron in the 2010-2011 NFL season. Some people believe he will make a successful return, while others believe he is a bum and will be a flop. A line surrounding Pacman’s performance might look like the following:

Adam “Pacman” Jones total interceptions for the 2010 NFL Season

Over 1 (-115)

Under 1 (-115)

In both instances, one must wager $115 to win $100, as the money line is a negative number. If the money line were positive, the number would reflect how much money a $100 bet would return.

The saga of formula 1 racing has been debated for a long, long time and it has developed from the favorite of cocktail party circuits to intellectual discussions and more to emerge today as the nail-biting wonder of a phenomenon such as qualifying actually being measurable. If you too are one of the millions of Formula 1 racing circuit followers and love to follow the racing cars on Telly, even your iPhone or watch podcasts and subscribe to racing magazines focusing on winners, winning streaks and super sexy fast cars that lucked out even with their billion dollar machinery, then this article is just right for you!

Recent reports reveal that it took 5 seasons of F1 to find a winning formula for the qualifying rounds of the hour long session where all participating cars ran at the same time, requiring the stud or fastest driver to take a pole position; the next in line to the fastest driver would be granted second position and so on.

However, Formula 1 enthusiasts will appreciate here that in this one hour F1 qualifying session, the lap times and tires were all taken into consideration and so, those drivers with the fastest cars (for example Schumacher with his Italian supermodel of a car, the Ferrari, could not appear on the track till the fag end of the time limit, if he were to gain the top rank. So, this last minute wait to get on the track took away much of the spectacular draw of what F1 racing would otherwise have aspired to be.

Then came the 2002 ruling by the IAF (International Automobile Federation), which stated that drivers would go from one shoot-out round to another one in order to turn the F1 racing session from an hour long lap time one to a double session of 2 hours per each single lap shoot-out. This decision made by the leading car racing sport’s ruling body enabled the qualifying system to get established as the double 2 hour shootout single lap time that required every single racing car driver to run one single timed lap alone. Soon it was brought down to one hour – in a bid to make the F1 racing more exciting; but with even the strongest drivers making horrible mistakes, this aspiration of the rule-making authorities too was dashed unceremoniously to the ground.

It was only in the year 2006 that Formula 1 was able to come up with a complex but thrilling system to ensure the excitement of professional super-fast racing car circuit was maintained for onlookers: but this still had one flaw – that of 10 minutes of the last session spent in cars only doing turn laps to burn gas. Of course, this last minute fuel burning exercise was only followed till the time that the real contest would actually begin (at the fag end of the session), but in 2008, this flaw was recognized and rectified to changing over the last session to comprise only 10 minutes.

Now, that makes current F1 racing begin on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with teams having an hour-long qualifying session that is separated into 3 parts. In the first part, called Q1, comprising 20 minutes, all racing cars get on the track together and aim at setting their fastest time. Thereafter, the slowest among these are eliminated (those earning grid positions ranks of 16 to 20). The next round, Q2 lasts from 2:27 to 2:42 and involves qualifying 15 cars to go in for another round on the tacks as their previous lap times stand cancelled; further eliminations take place here with the 5 slowest cars placed at grid positions of 11 to 15 eliminated. In the last division, called Q3, the time duration lasts 2:50 to 3:00 in the afternoon and comprises of last 10 cars fighting for the top position (pole position), which is also referred to as the No. 1 grid spot.

At this stage, should a racing car stop, break down or get pushed into the pit lane by the track marshals or other team members, neither the driver nor the car may go to the qualifying session.

Those who are into the IAF sessions (International Automobile Federation) know the excitement and nail-biting finish recorded (and enthusiastically betted upon, too) by gaming enthusiasts as much as professional car racing lovers who were glued to their TV sets during the 2009 Euroseries 3000 season when it began last year on May 16. This session was held in Portugal’s Autódromo Internacional do Algarve with the finish venue dated 18th October being Monza, the Italy backdrop known for romance, thrills and spills of another kind, post 14 races, no less! Now, you can only begin to imagine what an exciting event that must have been.

Last year’s Euroseries 3000 organizers were Coloni Motorsport and they had made the announcement proudly enough fro the A-One Grand Prix chassis, for the Lola B05/52, to be part of the championship, as a replacement value for the earlier Lola B02/50 model. The announcement also included the news about a popular online poker website sponsoring the title series for years 2010, 2011 and 2012. Due to this deal by the sponsors, those who won the driver’s championship cup also got to feature in a free season of this year’s GP2 Series (that is, 2010 GP2 series). It also enabled the winners to take part in the GP2 Asia Series for 2009-2010 season starts, commencing on October 23rd and 24th – just a little less than a week from the official win of the prestigious title.

The first place winner was Will Bratt while the second rank went to Marco Bonanomi who had previously tied with him when both drivers had finished at same points and victory levels.

As mentioned earlier, the Euroseries 3000 from 2006 to the current times has been organized by (Coloni Motorsport whose F3000 Italia series launched in 2006 were such a hit with the growing number of car racing enthusiasts that they had to expand to 4 more nations to accommodate their championships – and this number seems to growing to integrate yet another country for Italian championship!

How’s that for pro car racing gaming advancements?

Moving on to the finer nuances of car technology advancements for the Euroseries 3000, it should be mentioned here that both versions of the Lola that were considered eligible, used Zytek 3000cc engines. But, it was only last year’s Euroseries 3000 that thought it fit to introduce the Lola B05/52, an ex-A1GP type that had a running capacity of an enviable 3400cc engine, even though the race series still stuck to using the Euroseries 3000 tag, notwithstanding the new technology. It is only this year that the series is being officially re-named as the Auto GP (in 2010).

However, those who are avid racing fans will have already scoured the net for updates on the Euroseries 3000 and found that forum posts are the best source of information about their favorite sports – since the official website too seemed to be in the process of upgrading its information portals and lacked the necessary updates when this article went into print. For the others, here are some fast facts to chew on about the Euroseries 3000:

• The newly christened Auto GP 2010 is the erstwhile Euroseries 3000
• The International GT Open will run meetings with the European F3 Open
• Huge budgets of around 380,000 euros in prize money are predicted for every round per drivers going in for the full season, with reservations made for 200,000 euros in each event and 80,000 for the winner.