[Shotimes] (OT) Re: NASCAR numbnuts

[Donald Mallinson]

Totally agree, WRC has to be right up there with the Baja 
runs for drivers with guts.

Don Mallinson

Paul L Fisher wrote:

> I personally think the ballsiest of drivers are WRC drivers. Their
> spectators are pretty balsie as well. You figure, driving from 30-160 MPH on
> all sorts of loose surfaces, around blind corners with livestock and humans
> running across the 'track' in front of you. Then, they flip the car over,
> put it back on its wheels and drive it out of the stage.
> 
> The drivers even have to do rudimentary repairs themselves.
> 
> Paul L Fisher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:43 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] (OT) Re: NASCAR numbnuts
> 
> James,
> 
> flying is a pretty scary thing.
> 
> So is turning left when the concrete wall is about 8 feet 
> high and you are approaching it at full throttle with 
> nothing but a little bit of car around you, also loaded with 
> fuel.  In one situation you know what the outcome usually is 
> (flying is pretty safe),  and in the other, as a novice 
> "racer" (ME) the outcome is NOT so much a known quantity.
> 
> I have done both (fly and drive an oval) and for scary the 
> oval has it hands down.
> 
> I am not a NASCAR junkie, I just know beyond any doubt that 
> what they do is real racing.  I like other forms better, but 
> that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the occasional round race 
> (indy?) or respect the drivers.
> 
> Don Mallinson
> 
> 
> James F. Ryan III wrote:
> 
>>Don, have you ever been in a commercial airliner at 30,000 feet, with
>>thousands of pounds of jet fuel under your feet, screaming along at
>>500mph in an aircraft made of Aluminum (wearing nothing more than a lap
>>belt)????  Now that's scary!!!
>>
>>Driving around in a circle is neither scary nor exciting.
> 
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