A RACING LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND

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A RACING LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND

He fashions himself as the country’s best bet in the razzle-dazzle world of the fast lane, even claiming to be the first Philippine driver to know every twist and turn of the Le Mans circuit after having had a successful stint last year (or so he claims). Actually, those races are novelty races wherein participants pay to race.

In every motoring event that he attends, he throws his weight around, and being the show off that he is, even regales his audience with his racing stints in Europe and Macao. When asked one time by a well-known society gal whether racer boy is in town for a brief rest from his oh-so busy schedule, boy wonder could only utter: “I am here to improve local motorsports,” as he downed a glass of light beer.

On the contrary, racer boy’s real reason for being here is that he is actually hiding from his team in Europe. Being a pay-before-race event, all of his teammates had their duties paid. Being best at what he does, he never looked back upon hearing of the required $15,000 entrance fee to race in the Le Mans, high tailed out of Europe and into the open arms of innocent Pinoy racing fans. Not quite the graceful exit to a supposedly budding career in Europe.

Racer boy recently earned the ire of an owner of a racetrack by not fulfilling the promises of an agreement. Having been paid a hefty six-figure by the racetrack owner before the actual opening of the track, the normally good-natured track owner could scratch his head in frustration and remark, ‘I already paid him and he has yet to fulfill his contractual obligations to me. He is doing nothing.’

Patrons of the racetrack know fully well of racer boy’s scams, as he is currently the talk of the town. This and another scam involving a high-end bike shop owned by a landed family from the South, often accumulating debts of over a hundred thousand pesos, racer boy kept promising payment in due time. Only when the lawyers of the bike shop owner threatened to sue did he racer boy pay up, after a year and two months of empty promises.

Such are the travails of racer boy. He gained prominence when he became the image model of a hi-tech firm and reportedly bagged an amount worthy of a BIR investigation. Sources say the firm is now regretting the day it hired racer boy. Considered as a joke in the local motorsports industry, racer boy should instead consider a career in