Thursday, June 30, 2005
Vintage Vic Mackey and the Fabulous Car Racers
Who is Vic Mackey? Why does he own a racing team? Do racing teams really have adventures?Those are all fine questions. Gramatically speaking, I mean. They're pretty stupid content-wise. But I'll answer them anyway. Vic Mackey - who you have probably heard of if you've seen the TV show The Shield (http://theshieldfans.com/) on FX - isn't good cop or bad cop. He's a different kind of cop. He even said so in the pilot episode. As you can see, he's a pretty angry kind of guy. Like a fat Stone Cold. He doesn't use the stunner on bad guys, sadly, but that would be pretty cool.
One day, Mackey decided he wanted to start a racing team. So he did. That's just the kind of guy Vic Mackey is. When some other nancy-boy is sitting around thinking about whether or not he should go to the store to buy the newly released serious Jim Carrey movie on DVD, Vic Mackey is out taking down gangs and starting racing teams. He doesn't give two shits about Jim Carrey movies. He probably doesn't even have a DVD player, since he's too busy kicking guys asses to care about watching the middle third of his TV screen.
Vic bounced around ideas of what to call his racing team during drug raids. Mackey Motorsports? Vintage Vic Mackey and the Fabulous Car Racers? Vic Mackey Presents A Racing Team? In the end - right around the time he was kicking in someone's skull - Mackey decided to take the direct approach and name it VicMackeyRacing.
Mackey wanted to win right off the bat, so he hired veteran driver Joe Walsh. Joe was immediately killed by some of Mackey's enemies. Perhaps a victim of the Armenian mob, or Antwan Mitchell, or maybe even Police Captain David Aceveda. Fearing that if he hired successful drivers, they would just keep getting killed, Mackey told his Strike Team to just go find a guy. And that guy was REDACTED. And boy could he ever drive. He even had a license.
Currently, VMR as I like to call it, fields a GTP car for REDACTED in the Pits Touring Car Championship (http://www.tptcc.com/) and a truck in the Utes Road Racing Series (http://www.wr-racing.co.uk/). REDACTED also drives for the WR Racing team in the WOSEC Endurance Racing series (http://www.wosec.co.uk/), which Mackey doesn't know about. If he did, he would probably kick in someone's door and burn their face on a stove.
So, there you have it. I don't remember all of the questions from the beginning of this, but I think they're as answered as they're gonna get.