Wouldn't that be considered assistance from outside the car? You should
have been DSQed. ;>)
Nice story.
Jon Rush
RHendr6343@aol.com wrote:
>
> At the Detroit region driver's school a couple years back, I was working on
> my best (and last) run of the day in my tail-happy DSP Mustang. As it
> crossed the lights, the car spun, and I wound up sitting in the exit
> sideways. Having resigned myself to ruining my best run of the day, I was
> ready to pull away before the next car came through when I noticed everyone
> standing around was frantically waving and yelling at me to back up. I
> remember thinking, "What does it matter which way I go as long as I get out
> of the way....Unless I'm sitting on a cone!" I backed up, and the crowd
> cheered. As I picked up my timeslip, the worker incredulously told me how I
> had a cone wedged under my nose at an extreme angle, and how backing up
> righted the cone.
>
> Rick Hendricks
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