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1. [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:46:59 -0500
Well I've pondered this question quite a bit and wanted to bring it up simply as a topic of discussion. We all assume we are gods at driving race cars... simply cause we're guys ( for the most part )
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00230.html (8,490 bytes)

2. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Sparky" <sparky.2211@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:54:13 -0700
Try driving on slick wet dirt--not gravel--roads or on ice and snow--this is sorta tounge in cheek-- Sparky AA/_ L 2211 -- Original Message -- From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net> To: <land-speed@autox
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00231.html (9,369 bytes)

3. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:54:49 EDT
I quit driving in the late fifties. Even youth was no substitute for skill. I spun at the drags, the lakes and Bonneville. Not only that but other drivers were invariably at least five miles an hour
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00232.html (8,236 bytes)

4. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: dan warner <dwarner230@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
Yeah, Jim Miller and I have been discussing the subject of drivers recently. Jim had experiences at Speedweek with new drivers, specifically, older and heavier drivers who are rookies. He had several
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00235.html (10,974 bytes)

5. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:43:20 -0700
In my twenties I roadraced. Now in my fifties, I realized that I'd lost a lot of my "edge", and I don't just mean reaction times (which apparently start to fade as we leave our teens). My solution? A
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00236.html (9,902 bytes)

6. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:57:32 -0400
--==0817980366== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a couple of rather specific thoughts.. First the guy with the O2 bottle is a no go sorry.. Thi
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00238.html (10,329 bytes)

7. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:28:21 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Although, I agree that it would be fun to take some driving courses where you get to drive the road course and such, I don't believe that that type of experience is all that useful for what we do. H
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00239.html (10,306 bytes)

8. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:40:07 -0700
Well, good to see Tonya has you figured out, old man... Interesting topic. If you are talking about driving skills for street application, the unfortunate part here is that the other 99% of us really
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00243.html (10,544 bytes)

9. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:44:48 -0600
My wife tells me the AARP has some driving courses. Wes _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00245.html (9,410 bytes)

10. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:58:16 -0400
I'm not sure what kind of skills you're thinking about developing or what kind of driving school experience you would expect. I recently did the one-day Chrysler SRT driving school that's run by Rich
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00246.html (10,955 bytes)

11. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:11:08 -0400
Here in western PA we've learned to steer clear of old codgers who wear hats when driving, especially if his wife is wearing a babushka. Lance (codger emeritus) ______________________________________
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00247.html (9,979 bytes)

12. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Robert J. Denton" <rjdenton479@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:29:52 -0400
Driver's School is a blast and if you get Hot Rod Magazine to pay for it, it's even better. David can assign someone to write an article. Bob Denton running the race of my life; lung cancer. But I'm
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00248.html (10,406 bytes)

13. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Rick Byrnes" <Rick@RBMotorsports.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:16:03 -0400
nononono Turk She signed YOU up. _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00251.html (10,611 bytes)

14. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Freiburger, David" <David.Freiburger@primedia.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:49:12 -0500
I'll disagree with you there. Both the street courses and the road-race classes can be valuable. I've been to the San Bernadino County Sheriff's school once, to Fast Time once, to Sprint Car school o
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00253.html (11,536 bytes)

15. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: Flowbench@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:12:21 EDT
Also, to Dan's point, the SCTA is the only sanctioning body I know of that does not require a physical exam. NHRA requires it for a 9-second license (130ish mph) and SCCA demands it for anything othe
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00254.html (9,889 bytes)

16. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "J.D. Tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:22:41 -0700
You can sign up at any age for AARP. ( not all of us want to admit that-Tonya signed us up for AARP this _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00256.html (8,675 bytes)

17. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Dale H Pulju" <d.pulju@pahrump.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:00:36 -0700
been there done that in pahrump, and my car insurance went down back from mt Charleston and the cold _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mail
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00257.html (9,445 bytes)

18. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: "Wm. T. Smith" <wmtsmith@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:25:58 -0700
Mike you are right--I dropped 20+ lbs. in '01 when I was going to drive Skips car--just so I could bailout better--I was so concerened I spent hours--I was so nervous--once I had done it and got sign
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00258.html (8,581 bytes)

19. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: BWANA343@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:31:04 EDT
All of these and more should be addressed by a doctor's release for drivers over 60 maybe. Other suggestions? I see it as a common practice by guys on this list to drive hundreds of miles just to tec
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00259.html (9,563 bytes)

20. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
Author: BWANA343@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:51:05 EDT
For those of you NOT subscribed to Hot Rod magazine, ( shame on you) there coincidentally are a slew of articles in the latest issue on driver safety. Also some great "Barn Finds" stories. And an old
/html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00260.html (8,372 bytes)


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