Perhaps you guys should write a book.
"The Zen of Autocross"
--- Carl Merritt <CMerritt@luminous.com> wrote:
> Do people walk into Buddhist Temples, sit down,
> "meditate" and become
> enlightened in a quick and painless half day program
> for $395?
>
> No. First much discipline and patient learning is
> required, often including
> countless hours of seemingly irrelevant manual
> labor.
>
> Such is the same with Autocross. You must first
> learn, before you can
> unlearn, and transcend the mortal distance between
> cones.
>
> -Carl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:58 PM
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: RE: Not Thinking
> >
> >
> > Scot Zediker writes...
> >
> > >Yup. Don't think. Just drive.
> >
> > Okay, now there's the rub.
> >
> > Scenario A: You're brand new, you have a sea of
> cones, and
> > someone tells you, "Just drive." So, you follow
> that mantra,
> > and you just drive. And you see that you are
> twenty seconds
> > behind your competition.
> >
> > So tell me what to do next.
> >
> > Scenario B: You're an instructor at the Jim
> Russell School of
> > Performance Driving. You have fifteen students
> with varying
> > degrees of experience. You put them in open
> wheeled racecars
> > on Sears Point International Raceway, and you tell
> them, "Just drive."
> >
> > What happens next?
> >
> > Answer each question separately. There will be no
> grades.
> >
> > Katie
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