[Vintage-race] drivers wearing watches

[Brett Johnson]

My 1951 356 has the original wind up clock (which is around 5 minutes  
off over 24 hours), so I don't need a watch.  I use the clock, which  
is next to and the same size of the tach, to determine when the timed  
practice sessions are about to be over -- is that why Michael wears one?

Brett Johnson

On May 27, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Roger Sieling wrote:

> I wholeheartedly agree. I've never understood this either. I also  
> remember
> them interviewing former winners and they always have their big  
> winning rings
> on too. Not me.
>
> Roger
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> Thompson
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> Subject: [Vintage-race] drivers wearing watches
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> Was just watching the Indy 500 driver intros. Michael Andretti, and  
> others,
> wear a large chronograph watch. I've seen a number of other drivers  
> in other
> forms of racing do the same.
>
>
>
> I always take my watch off before going out for a session. My  
> thinking is a
> don't want a large lump of metal strapped on my wrist. Sure, my  
> fire suit is
> designed to keep heat and flame away from skin. But, should I find  
> myself
> near a heat source during a racing incident, I don't want something  
> that
> will retain heat next to me like that.
>
>
>
> What do you think? Agree? Disagree?
>
>
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>
> Wm. Severin Thompson
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