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Re: Time Trial at Thunderhill

To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Time Trial at Thunderhill
From: Smokerbros@aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 14:31:31 EST
In a message dated 12/8/01 10:14:30 AM Pacific Standard Time,
76067.1750@compuserve.com writes:


>
>         At a previous similar event for Porsche owners the track manager
> requested the chance to drive a Porsche GT3R, a legendary German Cup car,
> and crashed it in the chicane between Turns 12 and 13. The generous car
> owner, who was riding as a passenger, was out one Porsche and the track
> manager spent the next several weeks in a Chico hospital recovering from
> bruises and a punctured lung, etc.
>
>    Moral: Don't let anybody else drive your car, especially the track
>manager.

And I'll add my own.  Don't go for rides at 135 in a car without a full cage
and competition restraints...  :-)

Charlie

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