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Re: Nationals to October in Texas

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Subject: Re: Nationals to October in Texas
From: mikelowe@pop.pointecom.net
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 02:27:55 +0000
> From:          "Hollis, Andy" <ahollis@origin.ea.com>

> I echo all the positive (and negative) comments so far with respect to the
> TMS site.  But I did want to offer a different opinion of the "smoothness"
> of the site.  This past year's course avoided the bad areas nicely.  Roger
> is great at doing that.  But the previous year's course went over so pretty
> awful bumps, much worse than I've ever seen at Nats.  I bottomed out the MX6
> severely on that course, and its got pretty good suspension travel.  I
> actually had to slow down in that one section to avoid breaking the car on
> subsequent runs.


     I can second Andy's remarks.  I did that cool arrive and drive 
kart thing for the 1999 Tour.  Somehow, I even stole a trophy!
     At least one of the bumpy areas made me airborne in the kart 
(awful understeer!  :-) ).  I'm a big guy so it takes a big bump to 
knock up ~350 lbs of kart/driver.
     Of course, I still support having Nationals only 5 hours from 
home (Houston) but I'm just a bit biased.  :-)  My map program says 
it's ~2170 miles from Seattle to TMS.  



Mike Lowe    mikelowe@pointecom.net    http://www.pointecom.net/~mikelowe
'96 Miata R (Go go gerbil power!)
'94 Miata FM2 Turbo (Gerbils on crack!)

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