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RE: Riding in cars with girls (was: RE: In Car Footage)

To: <aceontour@yahoo.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Riding in cars with girls (was: RE: In Car Footage)
From: <CMerritt@luminous.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:49:05 -0800
I just have way too much old stuff cluttering up my web site...

>From May 16th 1999 at Mclellan AFB, probably my 10th autocross ever, I let my 
>good friend Lee Darzycki drive my Z after he smoked his clutch earlier that 
>week.  We aren't driving nearly to the caliber of Andy or Teresa, in fact 
>later in the day Ben took his big red tow vehicle (F150?) and came within a 
>second of us much to our shock and dismay, but it's a great example of how 
>totally different styles can turn nearly identical times:  
>http://www.zfilms.org/stories/AVArchive/1999/Style.zip

-c

-----Original Message-----
From: Ms Katie Kelly [mailto:aceontour@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:25 PM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Riding in cars with girls (was: RE: In Car Footage)


Peter wrote:

>  The one thing I can find
> in common is a very high level of committment that
> comes from not being surprised by anything (looking
> ahead, thinking ahead) and a refusal to relax,
> coast, or give up speed anywhere on course if there
> is no reason to.

That's the toughest part. 

I remember riding with Andy and Teresa at a Sacramento
event, but I can't remember what car it was. Teresa's
968, maybe? I know they were turning pretty identical
times, but that's where the similarity ended. Teresa
seemed a lot more smooth, if I recall, but don't
misunderstand that as slow. She just took really smart
lines and was on the gas really early. She also never
takes her hands of the wheel, like she can completely
rotate her arms around 360 degrees. Andy would do this
shuffle steer thing at a twenty shuffles per second.
Also, I recall a lot of laughing, and I think that was
me, because I'm pretty sure he was scaring me to
death. Those are two really great drivers.

-Katie



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