-----Original Message-----
From: Kat Bryce <katbryce@earthlink.net>
To: Rocky Entriken <rocky@tri.net>
Cc: Jeff Cashmore <cashmo@hotmail.com>; autox@autox.team.net
<autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: No skirts in this email
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>This is the stuff I subscribed to team.net for...
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Other things I tell newbies:
Learning to autocross is like taking a drink from a fire hose. I will
probably tell you a dozen different things. If you can make two of them work
today, you're doing fine. You don't have to get everything down this time.
Don't worry about the rest. It'll come in time, with more seat time, or just
by someone else saying the same thing a different way so it clicks with you.
Also:
Don't worry about the top guys in your class. Just beat yourself. Your goal
is to go faster on the third run than you did on the first. What someone
else did is irrelevant. Early on, what you are after is personal
improvement.
And:
Don't throw a lot of money into the car right off. If you want to spend
money, spend it on the driver. Do a school. Go to other events. Travel. Get
seat time. But drive what you've got, run the street tires, until you begin
to see your improvement level off. THEN start to do things to the car. (By
then you may decide you want a different car, or want to go Prepared, etc.)
Rocky Entriken
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