Thanks, Kary! I've been waiting for that..............
Can you believe the size of that M s/s class?! Good stuff!
You know, now that I think back from my corner working stint......
The "drive" that really got my attention, while passing through my section of the course( "coner" worker #4, top of the hill, fast right sweeper into the 2nd gear right hander, then immediately into a left increasing radius...) was HERB MEEDER's. # 161? orange 914.
Let me tell you......There were some
efficient passes through my section of the track, BUT, If I could make the car that I was driving DO what I envisioned I needed to make it do, THAT was it! He just absolutely nailed it right.
He came in hot; fast enough so that you thought he had over cooked it. Went to trail braking into the turn...so beautiful...it looked as if he stood the car up on only the left front tire. No lock up. Perfect turn in point for his car, perfect rotation of the chassis, perfect apex, perfect throttle up to stop the rotation, perfect placement for the next turn, and there he went. The first part of this 2 part sequence was so GOOD I cheered and clapped!
Now, the funny thing was..........Herb heard me, looked over at me, and gave a thumbs up out through the open roof of his 914..... and sped off!
I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT.
I try
so hard to feel that I've just nailed
every turn, like that. So when I see another driver do it, it's just exhilarating.....
You guys know what I mean.
That's one of the reasons I keep coming back, and coming back again. The AX challenge. In February, it'll be 20 years worth. If it was boring in the least, you'd think I would have realized it by now.
Thanks for the memories PCASDR, and thanks to Bill Myrick for getting me to join.....
TC