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HYPER
RACER CHARGED WITH POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS
Concerns
may halt Middle East Peace Process
A
vocal minority of motorsport participants have
called for Hyper Racer's publicity of it's various
race success and promotion to be investigated,
claiming it's ruining it for everybody else.
According
to one key member of the aggreved group, publishing
anything suggesting that Hyper karts or drivers
are good in some way is "an insult to other makes
and drivers who aren't as good. And it's not very
nice".

Angy
racers are fed up with Hyper's publicity,
claming it prevents them from picking up chicks |
One
source, who wished to remain anonymous, possibly
on account of having the social skills of
a flatulent Star Trek junkie, went on to say
"It's like Geelong: So they won the AFL Grand
Final. But then what do they do? They go on
and on about it. Everywhere was like...'Mighty
Cats' and 'Cats Win'. That's so insulting.
It's clearly insinuating that all other teams
are rubbish and should be shot. And what's
more..." said the aggrieved party before we
could shut them up "Geelong really weren't
that good. The only reason they beat Port
was they kicked more goals, possesed the ball
more and didn't stand around doing nothing".
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This
provoked a chorus of dissent, with other angry competitors even suggesting Hyper
exaggerated their race success. In one event, some alleged that Hyper's heavy
driver Mark Wicks had an unfair advantage because he turned up when they didn't.
Another
person insisted; "...he only won because
he drove faster, lead more laps and didn't
spin. Big deal. Next thing we know Hyper's
PR machine are going on about how good they
are. Like the rest of us should all just
die or something. I mean, yeah, maybe I
should kill myself. That's obviously what
they want. Would that make Hyper Racer happy?
Huh??! Would it?? " he carried on like this
for some time until it got really disturbing
and we had to creep away discreetly.
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Wicks:
turned up
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Leeroy
Hemptoke in the 60's, yesterday |
While
some floated the idea of suing Hyper Racer
for loss of self-esteem, the disgruntled racers
have an unlikely ally in members of the music
industry, who have joined in the fight against
Hyper's promotional doings. "We have the same
problem" says Leeroy Hemptoke, of LSD Studios
in Murray Bridge, S.A. "I was in the industry
all through the 60's and 70's. All we heard
about was Rolling Stones this, Led Zeppelin
that. Big deal. My local band, Spleen of Satan,
were just as good. And we would have been
just as famous too if we'd sold as many records.
Where's the justice in that?". |
There
were suggestions within the sport that these issues
could best be solved by the complainants embarking
on their very own promotional and information
campaigns extolling their own virtues. However,
a spokeswhinger for the group said: "It's not
up to us to learn how to do all these things.
It's up to Hyper Racer to stop. Our category is
meant to be a control formula. That means everyone
is supposed to be the same. Besides.." he added
"We don't know how to use the internet and
carnt spell good".
Suggestions
put forward to help force sameness on the field
were; control chassis, control kart, control driver
or everybody taking turns driving the same kart,
on
a handicapping system. Another idea was to all
play with a Rubiks' Cube where all sides are the
same colour.
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