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From: Kelly, Katie <kkelly@spss.com>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>; ba-autox@autox.team.net
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 03, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: Ace Report: Atwater Pro
>As Esra, in his first ProSolo ever, prematurely basked in his glory, White
>powered his way up to the left hand course starting line, in an attempt to
>win the race by forcing Esra to miss the start of it.
Huh?
>"Pull up to the line, Phil! Hurry!" the crowd screamed, but Esra
>misunderstood this as more accolades. Finally, as he saw the clock ticking
>through the seconds, Esra's eyes grew large as he realized he only had a
few
>seconds left.
>
>He made it in time! The light turned green for Esra, and again, ten seconds
>later, White made his second attempt.
Was it only 10 seconds?!? It seemed like a LOT longer! I thought the
lights were broken! After sittin there a while watchin the Honda dissappear
into the distance, I got out of the car and walked back into the timing
trailer and told Howard, * Hey Godammit, when is MY light gonna turn
green!?!?* To which Howard replied, *Just go get in your car and wait, it'l
turn green in a little bit! Remember, this is ST you're racin against and he
gets a head start!* Geeeze those lights were far apart ;-)
White appeared to be giving it all he
>had,
Uhuh ;-)
while Esra looked like he was standing still, like it was all a bad
>dream. The crowd could barely stand it. "Go, Phil!" they chanted and
wailed,
>feeling as though their whole existence on this planet depended on Phil
Esra
>winning this race.
>
>They arrived nearly dead-even at the final turn, and again, Esra did his
>magic, and narrowly defeated the Corvette.
Phil repeated himself run after run without mistakes and is to be
congratulated for that! I wish I could say the same for myself ;-(
>Tears of joy abounded as a once pipe dream became reality. A 1986 Street
>Touring Honda Civic Si on street tires BEAT Scotty B. White. Would the
world
>ever be the same?
Ace, while I always appreciate the warm addoration for my skills the
Kelly family has always shown me in print and in person, I think you are
making a bit much of this, aren't you? Thanx anyway though ;-)
>Sadly, in the next round, Phil was defeated by an Acura Integra Type R.
>Still, it was a good day for Esra, who explained his eventual demise
thusly:
>"Well, I just ran out of Corvettes."
I guess that's better than running out of skill right near the finish ;-)
sbw
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