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Re: Driver reprogramming

To: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Driver reprogramming
From: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:41:47 -0500
Well said.  Welcome to never never land.  Want to take a wack at some
windmills.  Don Q.

Jim Hayes wrote:

> What I think is really needed is Stewards that will talk to drivers that
> are obviously in need of attitude modification, more training, a slower
> car or a return to golf.
> The Stewards should be the intermediaries between drivers and flaggers
> who complain and those who are the subjects of the complaints. They
> should be firm - and we all know it's hard to tell a "Walter Mitty" that
> he belongs in a slower car or should go spend the week with Bondurant or
> Skip Barber or should be racing beat-up stock cars on his local track.
> Or should become friendly with Eli instead or Reeves Callaway!
> Most of us know a bunch of drivers who need this kind of talking-to;
> they are the ones we know not to pass except on the long straights.
> Waiting until one of them causes an incident to slap their wrists is a
> crime!
> I know some organizations have a driver's committee, but since a member
> of one of them deliberately ran me off the road a couple of years ago I
> can't say I have a high opinion of the idea....
> Face it guys - this in not a "sport" that should be egalitarian.
> J
>
> --
> Jim Hayes  Winchester, MA, USA
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> All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false!




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