Yeah. I always think Peyote is fast until I get on the track with the
USRRC group. Nothing like having a McLaren blow by you to get your
head on straight. Of course it IS the best seat in the house to watch
that kind of thing.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Barr, Scott wrote:
> << throwing them out there with the vintage cars just goes against
> my sense of what's right >>
>
> Reminds me of the time our club (Midwestern Council) threw a quite
> recent Formula 1 car and Indycar in with the vintage group at a race
> at Road America. I, um, had missed the drivers' meeting, where I'm
> sure they warned everyone about this, because I was, er, still
> unloading my car. I made it to the grid after the first cars had
> pulled out, or I would have seen them. The first I knew of it was
> when I looked in my mirrors near the end of the front straight and
> saw a tiny speck of a car waaaaaaay back there and thought to myself
> "hey....does that car have...wings??" By the time I finished that
> thought, the tiny speck of a car had grown large and loud and
> screamed past and through turn 1.
>
> There's a bit of a difference between a Spitfire and an F1 car.
> Especially at the end of the Road America front straight.
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