All I can say is this: us spectators were watching the Florida green Bugeye
all day on Saturday. We all remarked how the car looked and sounded great
but the driver was behaving himself. Then, in the second half of the enduro
some transformation took place and suddenly the Florida green Bugeye was
going around corners on two wheels, hitting the rumble strips and kicking up
sand everywhere.......
Now I know why!
Daniel Thompson (no relation)
BTW, I got to meet the famous WST; super nice guy, nice car, great driver.
Didn't want to get in the way during Saturday's head scratching session so
I'll say hi the next time around.
"cut" Saturday I had the pleasure of co-driving Roger Garnett's
freshly
> painted, newly reassembled, Florida green, right hand drive, 948 Bugeye
> in the 1 hour enduro. What a delighful car to drive. Goes where you
> point, never surprises you... and with the addition of a better
> breathing head and some higher compression, would be seriously fast.
> When you rarely drive a right hand drive unfamiliar racecar, you find
> yourself looking right instead of left for your rearview mirror. Left
> hand shifts weren't a problem, (well...maybe 3 or 4 times), but I did
> find myself crowding the apex rumble strips on some of the left-handers.
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