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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>Well
said Bill</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>First,
my deepest symapathies go out to go out to Dr. Hermons' family and friends. We
have lost another of our own regardless</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>of
what he drove and how hard he was pushing it. We all have our own measure of "
winning " and I can only hope the good doctor </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>was
leading in his own way when he went off.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>By the
by, I got my HANS two weeks after we lost Uncle Jack. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=482472203-23092008>Jim
Gray</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Bill Babcock<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 22, 2008 8:57
PM<BR><B>To:</B> WILLIAM TOBIN<BR><B>Cc:</B> fot@autox.team.net;
susank@141.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fot] Sad news from Road
America<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Nextly, as far as I know, nobody has gone
from vintage to F1. Are we getting too serioius about winning? Just
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<DIV>Geez, so my planned career path is probably a bust?</DIV>
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<DIV>I know it doesn't make sense, but when you get behind a wheel you race.
End of story. I honestly never have really understood this eight tenths stuff.
Sure, we don't jam our cars into a chicane five across and get all chesty, and
we back off rather than make that low-percentage pass that would be just part
of the game even in your basic SCCA regional race, but we still all push it,
and try to pick up a little more mid corner speed in that long sweeper, event
though the car is bucking a little and the back end is stepping
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<DIV>I'm KNOW there's some people out there that don't think of winning, they
think about their car's history, and they just enjoy being on the track.
I know because I usually lap them, sometimes several times. It's not
a parade. I don't drive it that way, and neither do the vast majority of the
people I know. </DIV>
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