Perhaps the reason these former professional driver's flog their rides so
much is so that don't have to deal with the shame of being beat by schmucks
like us???
WST
Flounder
Team Thicko
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Drews <tmccis@revealed.net>
To: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: crack-up at the historics
> Gary, I seem to remember Phil sliding a Ferrari into the hay bales at the
> Goodwood vintage race last year too. Hurley Haywood is reputed to have
blown up
> a rare Porsche turbo with an extremely rare engine in a bid to win a race
in one
> of his guest drives - his comment "well, I was running quite a bit of
boost" (it
> was cockpit adjustable). I think that retired professional race drivers
have a
> little different driving philosophy than most of us vintage drivers. If
you
> beat me, it's not nearly as big a deal as if you beat Phil Hill... And, I
> suppose they've spent their entire driving careers driving someone else's
car so
> they (unlike me) don't take extra care to preserve the machinery. I've
got to
> remember to NOT loan my car (whenever it gets completed) to some world
famous
> driver!
>
> - Tony
>
> Gary Speckman wrote:
>
> > Whats with these guys Tony? Remember a few years ago Bob Bondurant
crashing
> > Rollie Stephenson's beautiful Cobra at Road America?
> >
> > I say we teach them how to drive in vintage races..(for a fee)(and we'll
> > make them drive their OWN cars)
> >
> > At 04:07 PM 8/29/99 -0500, Tony Drews wrote:
> > >Of course, it was none other than Phil Hill in the Maserati
>
>
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