What I love about NASCAR, and some other racing series (mostly broadcast on
Speedvision) is when the car is totally lost, perhaps airborne but
certainly sideways, backwards, spinning more than once, and the thing
finally gets stable and happens, through sheer chance, to be facing
frontwards and still rolling, and the driver puts it in gear and bumps the
engine to get it going and drives off, listening to the announcers wax
rhapsodic about the incredible exhibition of driving skill they've just
witnessed. Just brings tears to my eyes...
Brian
At 02:42 PM 3/30/01 -0500, Derek Harling wrote:
>JWoesvra@aol.com wrote:
>
> > 10/10ths to me is 0.1/10 before I wreck. Some pros can drive nearly
> 10/10ths
> > lap after lap. Some guys manage to wreck at their 7/10s. 9/10ths is a
> > competitive race pace. Yours may be faster than mine, but when either of us
> > exceeds our own 10/10ths, it is called a wreck. It is possible to exceed
> > 10/10ths and not crash. That is a "save" and usually the result of more
> luck
> > than skill.
>
>Jack - do you do psychoanalysis as well?
>Derek
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