[Land-speed] Driving skills

[BWANA343 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/25/2007 1:32:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
dwarner230 at yahoo.com writes:

All of  these and more should be addressed by a doctor's release for  drivers 
 over 60 maybe. Other suggestions?




I see it as a common practice by guys on this list to drive hundreds of  
miles just to tech the cars. If someone had to find out they failed tech because  
they could not exit the car in an emergency situation, they didn't put enough  
time into the preparation of their project. We have rulebooks that spell out  
both the safety and tech requirements to race. We have other venues to 
tune-up  for The Salt. I've been practicing for Bonneville for seven years, and find 
it  hard to sympathize with those who don't read the rulebook, to the point 
of  practically memorizing the thing, to know what they need. 99% of my 
concerns are  passing tech, safety first, any other car stuff a distant second. I 
made  a  few trips out there for SW in 05 and 04, and witnessed a  few of these 
tech  nightmares. In some cases the money and time put into the performance of 
the car  as opposed to the safety was just stupid. Dan and the tech crew can 
elaborate on  the best of the worst stories.
If you are over 50, overweight, and out of shape, driving a straight line  
can still be the most physically strenuous task one might encounter, contrary to 
 hopefully wishful thinking.
Bob, will probaly fail tech now ,W






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