[Spridgets] this is damn funny

[Wm. Severin Thompson]

A few years back, I was a driving instructor at the VSCDA's Spring Brake
race at Gingerman. Standard routine is you take your students out to the
track after the first classroom session for "station wagon runs". You pile
them into your street vehicle, and drive the track, showing them the line,
braking points, corner worker locations, entry and exit points on the track.
I had my 1 ton turbo diesel dually extended cab pick up. 3 students in the
back seat, and my wife in the front seat. The track was damp, as it was
misting, sometimes light rain. She could never look out the windshield.
Later at lunch, I took just her out on the track... raining a little harder.
I had the truck sideways out of every corner, and ran some laps that would
have placed me about mid pack in group 2. ;)

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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] this is damn funny

Strap them into a passenger seat for track touring at lunch, with no
passing, and a 70mph speed limit, and most of them sprain their sphincters.

I remember the first time my wife was riding with me at 143 MPH in my 68
Corvette. She was curling up in her seat and retracting her legs. I told her
that it would go faster and she just said that we were going fast enough!
She did not want to top it out at 160 so we slowed down a bit... She never
raised her voice at all!!!

Best I ever saw was 174 MPH in a 275GTB longnose V-12 Ferrari.

Kent
1960 Bugeye