The "Where did he go?" thread

by Electric Wolf Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:13 pm

I've been following TMMC since 2008 at Milan and I've noticed quite a few drivers come and go. This is a thread for any drivers from TMMC, ARLA, TMJS, RROL or any other canon league that you're not sure where they went, even when you felt like they were in the series yesterday.

Dalton Johnson - His 2008 car didn't seem so bad, but I don't know where he went off to. For some reason, I think he's Rutana's driver.
Rodney Frye-Carter - I think he was a character of some user who doesn't come on here anymore, so there's an easy reason. Same goes for Leon Keniston and all of his drivers.
Ryan Hearne - I think this is Cooper's driver, but I'm not sure if he retired or not.
Jon Broughton - He wasn't so bad, even when he seemed to be a midfielder at times. I think Joel Rodriguez's #86 had Broughton's #75 number font at one point.

I'll add more as I think of them.

by racingfreak1999 Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:17 pm

Casey Lester wrote:Jon Broughton - He wasn't so bad, even when he seemed to be a midfielder at times. I think Joel Rodriguez's #86 had Broughton's #75 number font at one point.

Broughton I think was one of the original admins on EFR. Don't know what became of him.

by navycook75 Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:30 pm

Dalton Johnson was Rutana's, and it always failed to qualify for every race he attempted.

by **SnakePlissken** Mon Mar 11, 2013 8:54 pm

racingfreak1999 wrote:
Casey Lester wrote:Jon Broughton - He wasn't so bad, even when he seemed to be a midfielder at times. I think Joel Rodriguez's #86 had Broughton's #75 number font at one point.
Broughton I think was one of the original admins on EFR. Don't know what became of him.

Last time I saw Jon he was over at the Outlaw Paint Shop site, but I think it has since shut down.

by Electric Wolf Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:03 pm

Kathy Clemons - Loose cannon, if I read correct on TMPedia. Once the RapidTech team closed down, I haven't seen anything from either her or Tom Wetmore.
James Lombardi - Almost won the '07 title with Kingston. Then he vanished...
Jerry Luther - I saw in one of the threads on the old forum that the real life Jerry was a member who got cancer or very sick or something and stopped coming on here. If he's still with us, I wish him the best with his battle.
Craig Cross - I have a feeling he was a former user's driver as well. If he wasn't, then it's a shame because he looked strong in a few races, but he was in the back most of the time.
Austin Magnussen - I really liked this guy for some reason and I thought he was going to end up with a large team like JCR or National, but he ended up being Ocean STS' third driver, then falling off the earth.
Tom Levin - Lost his ride after '08 or '09 and Kingston didn't really change without him.
Leroy Brittain - I heard somewhere that his team got banned. I'm guessing his user wasn't complying to the rules...

by **Cynon** Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:31 pm

Hearne - Not my driver. Was entered by someone else who vanished from the forum after 2007 and ... that was that. I've heard the name crop up in iRacing circles though, so I'd imagine it was the same person.

Clemons and Wetmore - The RapidTec team vanished after that user vanished. Despite the awesome team name and decent paintjobs these cars never had any results.

Lombardi - Entered by my real life friend Ryan. Named after James McCloud and Falco Lombardi. Lombardi poofed from the canon because Ryan is a much bigger Zelda fan than a Starfox fan.

Magnussen - Entered by another internet friend. Named after his then-roommate.

Levin - Entry for a guy I know in real life that I haven't talked to in years. Needless to say he had very strong personal connections in Ireland.

Cross - One of Johnnie Ada's drivers. Former admin. He does iRacing paintschemes these days.

Luther - Whopperboy59's entry. Former admin of the forum. He did actually pop up on the forum awhile back.

Brittain - Another one of the N1 contingent that I lent out to Hetzel (Brittain was in N1 because they couldn't get the rights to Morgan Shepherd's name). The team and Brittain poofed after Hetzel got banned.

Jonathan Flournoy - Another guy who entered a driver named after himself that vanished from the forum. I saw him at an NR2003 league I ran in as a one-off (I think it was when I just got my wheel and wanted more time to get used to it), and I recall seeing him in practice but I think he didn't take the start for some reason.

by Electric Wolf Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:59 pm

Cynon wrote:Hearne - Not my driver. Was entered by someone else who vanished from the forum after 2007 and ... that was that. I've heard the name crop up in iRacing circles though, so I'd imagine it was the same person.

Clemons and Wetmore - The RapidTec team vanished after that user vanished. Despite the awesome team name and decent paintjobs these cars never had any results.

Lombardi - Entered by my real life friend Ryan. Named after James McCloud and Falco Lombardi. Lombardi poofed from the canon because Ryan is a much bigger Zelda fan than a Starfox fan.

Magnussen - Entered by another internet friend. Named after his then-roommate.

Levin - Entry for a guy I know in real life that I haven't talked to in years. Needless to say he had very strong personal connections in Ireland.

Cross - One of Johnnie Ada's drivers. Former admin. He does iRacing paintschemes these days.

Luther - Whopperboy59's entry. Former admin of the forum. He did actually pop up on the forum awhile back.

Brittain - Another one of the N1 contingent that I lent out to Hetzel (Brittain was in N1 because they couldn't get the rights to Morgan Shepherd's name). The team and Brittain poofed after Hetzel got banned.

Jonathan Flournoy - Another guy who entered a driver named after himself that vanished from the forum. I saw him at an NR2003 league I ran in as a one-off (I think it was when I just got my wheel and wanted more time to get used to it), and I recall seeing him in practice but I think he didn't take the start for some reason.

I should have guessed Lombardi was a StarFox reference. I mean, Zelda Ashby isn't an obviousreference to anything at all...

Pyo Konoroz(?) - Attempted (and failed) to make Russia in '08 for Cesnik.

Stan Rosenstreter - Didn't do so bad in the series. I think he's running TM Lights now, but I can't remember.

Connor Maloney - Saw his scheme in the 2008 promo video that Lewis made, but I only recall seeing Mosco in the Karjala Junior Race video.

Dillon Mosco - See Maloney.

Kyle Schmulewitz - Replaced Brooks in the #12 at Spa in '09, ran for Team Saar USA in TM Lights in 2010 or 2011 and haven't seen him again.

Chris Branham - I remember he ran the Whittaker #80 in the 2009 Daytona Qualifying Race #1. (You also said Kurt Walker was a rookie in that race, even when I'm pretty sure he ran the full 2008 season...)

Pretty much half of the drivers from TM Cup in 2006 - Let's name some: Wesley Ellis, Todd Bell, Scott Head, Matt "Bad Luck" Shinoski, Mario Marquez, Jake Natali(?), etc...

by Alta Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:16 pm

Casey Lester wrote:

Connor Maloney - Saw his scheme in the 2008 promo video that Lewis made, but I only recall seeing Mosco in the Karjala Junior Race video.

Dillon Mosco - See Maloney.

I knew these two (they used their IRL names for their drivers) from another forum i used to admin at. Maloney fell of the face of the earth after like 2009 and Mosco and i talk to every so often on Facebook.

by Rykia Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:26 pm

Casey Lester wrote:
Pretty much half of the drivers from TM Cup in 2006 - Let's name some: Wesley Ellis, Todd Bell, Scott Head, Matt "Bad Luck" Shinoski, Mario Marquez, Jake Natali(?), etc...

These could be wrong, so someone correct me if they are.

Wesley Ellis - I think he belonged to Justin Brooks, who no longer comes around EFR.

Todd Bell - Pretty sure Cooper had him retire from racing.

Mario Marquez - Belonged to the same guy Ashby and Lombardi belong to. Never moved him to Master Cup.

I think Rosenstretter still hovers around here and there.

by Alpineopossum Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:13 pm

Todd Stanton
Paul Gartley
James Rand
Esmé Rousseau
Andrew Craig Racing - Was this a referance to the CART exec?
Austin Howard

by Electric Wolf Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:24 pm

Read on TMPedia that Stanton had personal issues with the #45 team in 2009 and left racing for some other occupation. I think Rosseau has a managerial position at the Lynxe team nowadays and Rand was an RROL driver for a little while.

by racingfreak1999 Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:15 pm

Casey Lester wrote:Kyle Schmulewitz - Replaced Brooks in the #12 at Spa in '09, ran for Team Saar USA in TM Lights in 2010 or 2011 and haven't seen him again.

I think that was DK's (David Krikorian) character. I think he still comes around here from time to time.

by Alta Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:29 pm

Rykia_RKXK wrote:are.

Wesley Ellis - I think he belonged to Justin Brooks, who no longer comes around EFR.

Yes. Brooks got shitcanned for acting like a douche i believe.

Todd Stanton

Owned the NASCOM Nr03 league. Did a money league near the end of that league's existence and took the cash for himself.

by **SnakePlissken** Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:46 pm

Todd Bell - Pretty sure Cooper had him retire from racing.

Todd Bell was the name from one of the original fictional Papyrus cars-- Phossil car I think.

by Rykia Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:51 pm

SnakePlissken wrote:
Todd Bell - Pretty sure Cooper had him retire from racing.

Todd Bell was the name from one of the original fictional Papyrus cars-- Phossil car I think.

Would make sense, Todd Bell ran a Phossil sponsored car in Master Cup in 07 and 08 part time.

by f1fan12 Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:30 am

Taylor Silverman- Got a Fortner ride for the IT in TMMC, but after Fortner disbanded, where did he go?

by Electric Wolf Wed Mar 13, 2013 5:51 pm

f1fan12 wrote:Taylor Silverman- Got a Fortner ride for the IT in TMMC, but after Fortner disbanded, where did he go?

More like ragequit... I thought Silverman ran a few races in TM Lights in 2011 for one of either JMac or a different user's team. Not sure after that.

by JMac525 Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:08 pm

Casey Lester wrote:
f1fan12 wrote:Taylor Silverman- Got a Fortner ride for the IT in TMMC, but after Fortner disbanded, where did he go?

More like ragequit... I thought Silverman ran a few races in TM Lights in 2011 for one of either JMac or a different user's team. Not sure after that.

While Silverman was not mine, I do remember this driver too.

by Alpineopossum Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:32 pm

JMac525 wrote:
Casey Lester wrote:
f1fan12 wrote:Taylor Silverman- Got a Fortner ride for the IT in TMMC, but after Fortner disbanded, where did he go?

More like ragequit... I thought Silverman ran a few races in TM Lights in 2011 for one of either JMac or a different user's team. Not sure after that.

While Silverman was not mine, I do remember this driver too.

Wasn't he Ryan Griffin's driver?

by RyanB06 Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:20 pm

I believe he was...I even painted Silverman's TM Lights car for him.

by **Cynon** Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:13 pm

Todd Stanton -- Money league shenanigans took him out of the series.
Paul Gartley -- Didn't think anyone cared about him.
James Rand -- Ditto.
Esmé Rousseau -- Ditto.
Austin Howard -- Ditto.
Andrew Craig Racing - Was this a reference to the CART exec? -- No, not on purpose, even though I grew up with him as the CART CEO and thus would have heard the name on TV broadcasts. The team died once I started actually paying attention to CART political figures from the time when I was too young to notice them. You can call it my way of saying; "Uh, oops".

by Nascar9fan Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:20 am

Jack Cronin - If I remember correctly, his last attempted race was Decatur of 2009, where he wrecked John Parker Jr out of the pre-qualifying race

by Alpineopossum Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:59 pm

As for Gartley my Lime Rock Enduro team would be interested in his services...

by Rykia Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:36 pm

Nascar9fan wrote:Jack Cronin - If I remember correctly, his last attempted race was Decatur of 2009, where he wrecked John Parker Jr out of the pre-qualifying race

He owns the ASCC team that Ike Durbin and Seth Anderson drove for in 2012.

by Alta Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:38 am

Nascar9fan wrote:Jack Cronin - If I remember correctly, his last attempted race was Decatur of 2009, where he wrecked John Parker Jr out of the pre-qualifying race

I might be thinking of someone else, but i swear i saw that name in Nr1999

by Alpineopossum Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:40 pm

What ever happened to Avery Holtzman (as in plans for 2013)?

by **Syzygy** Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:11 pm

Alpineopossum wrote:What ever happened to Avery Holtzman (as in plans for 2013)?

He's running for my WSCEC team at Limerock.

by **Ben Atkins** Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:46 am

I believe Cooper was thinking of putting Holtzmann in the second TH Racing Dash Cup car, or the second Simonet car, but Dorian got the TH ride, and Bouvier went to Simonet.

by day500champ1 Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:23 am

Alpineopossum wrote:
JMac525 wrote:
Casey Lester wrote:
f1fan12 wrote:Taylor Silverman- Got a Fortner ride for the IT in TMMC, but after Fortner disbanded, where did he go?

More like ragequit... I thought Silverman ran a few races in TM Lights in 2011 for one of either JMac or a different user's team. Not sure after that.

While Silverman was not mine, I do remember this driver too.

Wasn't he Ryan Griffin's driver?

Yeah, he was mine. I dropped him from the Lights team and just didn't decide to put him anywhere else.

by **SnakePlissken** Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:16 pm

Where did "Patrick HENDERSON!" go?!

Just realized that Reid "Silver" Bullet was able to use #11 this year and got to wondering where "Patrick HENDERSON!" went?

And although I thought it was pretty awesome/funny, I don't think I ever understood why Patrick Henderson was pronounced as "Patrick HENDERSON!"

by **Ben Atkins** Sat Mar 23, 2013 6:07 pm

Patrick HENDERSON will be making some Dash Cup starts this year.

by Mother of Invention Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:58 pm

Rykia_RKXK wrote:
Wesley Ellis - I think he belonged to Justin Brooks, who no longer comes around EFR.

I think he was Ryan Nawrocki's relative in real-life.

by RetrogradeRenegade Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:01 pm

SnakePlissken wrote:Where did "Patrick HENDERSON!" go?!

Just realized that Reid "Silver" Bullet was able to use #11 this year and got to wondering where "Patrick HENDERSON!" went?

And although I thought it was pretty awesome/funny, I don't think I ever understood why Patrick Henderson was pronounced as "Patrick HENDERSON!"

I think that was just because his name was actually spelt with all caps.

by navycook75 Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:08 pm

SnakePlissken wrote:Where did "Patrick HENDERSON!" go?!

Just realized that Reid "Silver" Bullet was able to use #11 this year and got to wondering where "Patrick HENDERSON!" went?

And although I thought it was pretty awesome/funny, I don't think I ever understood why Patrick Henderson was pronounced as "Patrick HENDERSON!"

I think the HENDERSON thing came from a hockey announcer, I'm not sure though.

by Kornography Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:49 pm

Rykia_RKXK wrote:
SnakePlissken wrote:
Todd Bell - Pretty sure Cooper had him retire from racing.

Todd Bell was the name from one of the original fictional Papyrus cars-- Phossil car I think.

Would make sense, Todd Bell ran a Phossil sponsored car in Master Cup in 07 and 08 part time.

Mine! He got injured late in the season, I replaced him the last few races, and I think after 07 he kinda disappeared.

Casey Lester wrote:Same goes for Leon Keniston and all of his drivers.

Leon ragequit cause Flyingturns lost his ARLA team/ride for 2012, so as a result he did too. When I got the team/car, he tried to make political implications and decided to cry about it and leave.

by flyingturns89 Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:55 pm

Kornography wrote:
Rykia_RKXK wrote:
SnakePlissken wrote:
Todd Bell - Pretty sure Cooper had him retire from racing.

Todd Bell was the name from one of the original fictional Papyrus cars-- Phossil car I think.

Would make sense, Todd Bell ran a Phossil sponsored car in Master Cup in 07 and 08 part time.

Mine! He got injured late in the season, I replaced him the last few races, and I think after 07 he kinda disappeared.

Casey Lester wrote:Same goes for Leon Keniston and all of his drivers.

Leon ragequit cause Flyingturns lost his ARLA team/ride for 2012, so as a result he did too. When I got the team/car, he tried to make political implications and decided to cry about it and leave.

Actually he lost his team about a month before I did. We had had a team up planned, but I lost my spot because of a suspension of disbelief character and my own personal actions. I don't really know why Leon lost his though.

by Michael Sykes Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:11 am

SykesOnRedAlert: Seeing as everyone is jumping on the #FormulaOverdrive bandwagon, I mayaswell congratulate them aswell for all driving in the right direction. Congraulations, you're all better than cody keaton. #BackHandedCompliment

by Magus978 Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:16 am

Michael Sykes wrote:SykesOnRedAlert: Seeing as everyone is jumping on the #FormulaOverdrive bandwagon, I mayaswell congratulate them aswell for all driving in the right direction. Congraulations, you're all better than cody keaton. #BackHandedCompliment

You did it again Sykesy, wrong thread Razz

by Michael Sykes Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:16 am

#Senile

OOC: Yep, early here, but thats no excuse here, I could easily cover this rubbish up like a coward, and try to fit it into the actual topic, however I have no questions about former TM Canon drivers.

by Pyrozooka0 Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:04 pm

I wonder what happened to Manuel Ortiz from the 2008 ARLA season?

by **Ceej** Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:11 pm

His owner disappeared off the face of the Earth.

by BWard Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:29 pm

A few more guys who I wonder went there ways a while back:

Jared Andersen
Matt Scarano
Will Schweig
Shawn Donnelly
Toby Armstrong
Kelly Dawson
Morgan Hamburg
Bruno Battaglia
Milano Rossini
Damien Snyder
Jozef Nowicki
Hamilton West
Franz Redlich
CJ Cameron
Ricky Flush
Mumba Kumangu
Raibeart Scott
Amy Patti
Jeremy West
Bruce Wilkinson

by **Ben Atkins** Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:53 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:A few more guys who I wonder went there ways a while back:

Morgan Hamburg
Milano Rossini
Damien Snyder
CJ Cameron
Ricky Flush
Mumba Kumangu
Amy Patti
Bruce Wilkinson

Morgan Hamburg did the Independent's Trophy in 2012 with TDR.
Milano Rossini is the same person as Alessandro Rossini who's in Master Cup full time next year.
Damien Snyder raced in Decatur in 2012.
CJ Cameron and Ricky Flush's owners got banned IIRC.
Mumba Kumangu died after hect came back just to kill him off then leave again.
Amy Patti was taken out of canon by Tom for some reason.
Bruce Wilkinson failed a drug test after some personal issues between the characters owners and some league owners, so he was shafted out of canon.

by Milan655 Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:06 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:A few more guys who I wonder went there ways a while back:

Milano Rossini

Hi.

by Magus978 Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:22 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:A few more guys who I wonder went there ways a while back:

Amy Patti

A friend of mine in real life, we had a bit of a falling out so I sent her off to non-racing ventures.

by navycook75 Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:36 pm

what ever happened to Scott Mora-

oh yeah... I forgot...

by Backmarker Thu Apr 04, 2013 2:53 pm

BWardboy88 wrote:A few more guys who I wonder went there ways a while back:

Jared Andersen
Toby Armstrong
Bruno Battaglia
Franz Redlich
Raibeart Scott
Jeremy West

-Ceej decided to stop using him for some reason.
-Ditto.
-His creator was banned at the time and the character got written out.
-Attempted Karjala last year.
-Antknee didn't file an entry for ARLA this year.
-Creator stopped posting.

by navycook75 Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:09 pm

NeverNeutral wrote:
BWardboy88 wrote:
Bruno Battaglia

-His creator was banned at the time and the character got written out.

Jrod is unbanned, but Bruno Battaglia is from a football game, and Ceej doesn't allow people from tv shows or video games anymore.

though he might be back...

by Mother of Invention Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:48 pm

Kelly Dawson!

I wish Cy would bring her back!

by BWard Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:16 am

A few more I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Phineas Marshall
Alex Graff
Kristan Jefferies
Sean Suzuka
Derek Jones
Olivier Martinez

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