Hey Guys,
Odd topic for a forum post, but maybe you can help me out.
There is an employee at my office (Bob), involved in the rally racing scene. The story is that Bob raced when he was younger, and then at some point around 18 had to decide if he wanted to race professionally or not. He opted to not race professionally, and decided to start a school to teach up-and-coming rally drivers. IIRC the school is somewhere 2 hours north-west of Calgary.
Fast forward a few years (Bob is now mid-twenties), and his rally school brings him 2.5 million personally, teaches the best racers in the world, and is expanding into Europe. He works at our office during the day "to keep himself grounded", and teaches at night.
My reaction upon hearing the story when I started here was that it sounded suspicious. The details didn't add up (at least in my mind), something in his non-verbals always seemed strange when he told his stories, and he seemed to brag a lot more than your average uber-successful mid-twenties dude; but maybe he's just a strange guy. Either way I really, really didn't care. I come to work, do my job, and have very little interest in whether a co-worker is embellishing the details of his life.
Unfortunately, I'm now working in very close quarters with Bob, and am bombarded with various stories on the daily. Knowing absolutely nothing about the rally scene, I can't tell if I'm getting truths, half-truths, or just outstandingly blatant lies.
I'm hoping someone here is connected to the local/national/global rally scene well enough to know this guy, or know that a guy like this does not exist. If not, maybe you guys can help educate me on the rally scene so that I have a better sense of whether I'm being fed BS or not.