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Originally posted by CRE
"Buddy I've bet you've never seen that trick before! (CRE)
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Done that too on the Escort and Firehawk races. At Mid Ohio, my guy in the pits got on the radio... "The stewards of the meet want to know if you're having problems with your lights. If so, they want you to pit and fix the lights."
"Naww, I'm not having any problems, I'm just giving the alternator a rest."
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Another fun distraction was to aim the rear view mirror in a manner as to shine the following car's lights back at his eyes.
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Many course workers during the night races reported in seeing a red glow inside my car around my helmet during my stints. Stewards make their visit to my pit once again.to ask if there was a problem. "No problem. He's smoking a cigarette.".
I got really good at figuring out how the airflow routes around my car. I would break the concentration of a competitor following me by flicking the butt out the window so it would bounce off the following driver's windshield dead nuts in his line of sight.
At Portland ESCORT some folks didn't find the humor in this. Stewards visit my pit once again. Steward: "Tell your driver to STOP SMOKING!!!". I recited back to my crew member the GCR section that only required no smoking in the hot pit area, that there was no provision for such a rule while driving. I doubt that my response was relayed to the stewards, but one crew member fell out of our timing stand he was laughing so hard.
Just my version of multitasking in a race car.