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RE: Not Thinking

To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Not Thinking
From: Carson Black <cfbjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:53:28 -0800 (PST)
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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