{"id":13860,"date":"2025-06-17T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13860"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T19:39:58","slug":"getting-into-pro-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13860","title":{"rendered":"Getting into pro racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SRO Motorsports<\/a> is a Twitch channel showing off semi-pro racing. What makes it all interesting is that it shows off what just a few people can do. What would have taken a huge TV crew is being done by just a few folks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was exceptionally fun because the 2 commentators respond to the chat questions live while narrating the race. You could ask just about anything about rules, ages, etc and they would just respond on-air. One of them even ran off between heats to grab them both some food from the on-track food carts<\/a>. People in the stands watching were commenting live on chat. The racers range from 17 year olds all the way up to 40+ and they use cars that are not that different than ones you might have as a daily driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People asked about getting started in racing and they even answered those question (you get a driving certificate for racing via schools like Skip Barber driving school<\/a>) as well as lots of interesting tidbits about rules and behinds the scenes knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SRO Motorsports is a Twitch channel showing off semi-pro racing. What makes it all interesting is that it shows off what just a few people can do. What would have taken a huge TV crew is being done by just a few folks. It was exceptionally fun because the 2 commentators respond to the chat questions live while narrating the race. You could ask just about anything about rules, ages, etc and they would just respond on-air. One of them…<\/p>\n

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