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Re: passing, passing, and passing

To: Richard Urschel <osp13@mybluelight.com>, lomike@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: passing, passing, and passing
From: "Donald R McKenna" <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:31:31 -0800
Rich writes, as he describes it, "half way between birth and senility" about
the early days.

>Youngsters: Rindt was posthumous world champion in '70.

Don't know what year it was but, the memory of watching Rindt on TV "flying"
the Monaco course in a high-winged (Lotus, I think) F1 vehicle will still be
with me for a while.

For those with more recent memories, of dramatic moves, Zanardi's last lap,
turn 8/8A race-winning pass of Herta at Laguna in a CART race, just a few
years back, was the equal of Rindt'd dramatics but, for only one corner.
(Zanardi took the outside going into turn 7 then "out-braked" Herta, on the
inside, going into 8, only to be in so-hot he "shot" past Herta
straight-ahead and over the berm on the outside of 8. Herta, only slightly
off line, negotiated 8/8A on the road while Zanardi negotiated the same
direction changes in the dirt and came out ahead of, a probably incredulous,
Herta with s--- flying everwhere.)

        Don, (way more than half way)

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