Note: Do not ride in BBII if you get motion sick!
 

:D :D ;) :p

Poor Chris (84porsche). He enthusiastically went for a ride in BBII last month at Willow Springs on the big track...

He made it a couple of laps before he....decided...he...wasn't...feeling...so ...good...

Chris, you earned it, buddy. Enjoy!:D

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He's a good sport about it though (as always) and a great friend, which is why I'm ribbing him over it.

I can't believe it. A thread all about me. I am honored. To ride in BBII with Jack is the thrill of a lifetime. The onboard videos that Jack has don't even come close to describing the experience. It's truly gut-wrenching. :D

I don´t blame you. I get motion sickness from just watching the videos. Any videos involving moving objects.

I need to cut down on coffee and snuff..

Note to self: must get some onboard footage of me,my944,and the rally roads in my home town for Livi...


mooohahahahahah mooooahahahaHHAHAHA MOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH......

isn't it dangerous to stop on the track like that?

I'd be horrified at the thought of someone smashing behind me.

inside of a long, slow turn, Jack probably had both his wheels wel in the dirt... i'm sure it was safer then a windshield full of barf

:D

Jack was my instructor last year at Willow, the speed he carries through turn 2 and 8 was breathtaking, and it was understeering that day.
Awesome car and driver.

hehe scott chris and i went to breakfast last week.... scott mentioned he was gonna post that clip... i wasnt sure if he was gonna post it.... i came across this today.....

chris........ chris, chris. :)

well i guess posting my salsa clip wasnt such a good idea after all..... karma?..... hehe... im kidding brotha!..... wow! must be pretty intense getting into bb2

:)

nice one scott!

I rode in the car next. I am glad Chris made it out the door. I was not looking forward to a squishy/smelly ride around Willow! I'm sure motion was glad Chris borrowed the open face helmet as well :)

hehehe boy chris... i dont really see and end to this one brotha.....

at least my oil leak problem had a solution to it..... i took a beating from all you guys for a while..... no one wanted to drive behind me, ever! hehehe...

You shoulda heard Patrick (who was standing next to me when I had the camera rolling). When we finally figured out what was going on, Patrick busted up laughing! :D

Chris, we love ya, buddy! (but still...):rolleyes: ;)

ooohhh patrick has a quick wit... he ribbed quite a bit on the oil thing.

good luck chris..... patrick wont we easy on you! hehe

like scott said..... well..... at least we LIKE ya..... i dont know about the L word thing.... dont even use that with the girls i date much less when talking about a guy.... :)

...metaphorically speaking, of course. :)

:)

In return I´ll send you some in-toilet footage of me.. :D

That aint nothin, at least he did it on the track. You shoulda seen the back seat of my Outback Wagon at the bottom of the Dragon last August after pulling over 4 times for my 5 and 2 year old.

Chris you have ny sympathies brotha. I rode with Tyson in Scruffy on Mullhulland and came close to losing it myself. When we finally stopped honestly it took two minutes before I could get my legs back under me to stand up. I didn't lose my cookies but came closer to it than I ever have in my life.

Who is this "Jack" everyone is talking about? He has not posted on Pelican in a long time. Maybe he is penning his next masterpiece. Great guy.......


David

The look on Jacks face
 

Well, it is tough to ride in a car on a track as a passenger, particularly after lunch. I know of several people that have ridden with instructors at DE's who have at least gotten nauseous. It's not the same as when you're behind the wheel.

Re: The look on Jacks face
 

and still he's not far off from his usual pose
except the helmethairdo, and the smirk :D

:D

"It looks like he threw somethin' " Yeah......."up".

Classic!

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And I have a Espresso maker...

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That picture will come in handy in case I ever start to take myself too seriously.

As context:

My first-ever DE was at Streets of Willow with the PCA. Klaus Holthaus was one of the instructors. He's been involved in professionall racing since the sixties, I believe, so he certainly had the stomach for going fast on a track. But that day one of his students made him sick. As he explained it, it wasn't even that the driving was particularly bad. Sometimes it's just the right amount of movement combined with the right environmental (and gastronomical) factors.

My brother introduced me to racing karts when I was a kid. He was always faster than me, and has come out a few times to co-drive BB2 with me. He runs very respectable times (although he's not faster than his kid brother anymore), but as a passenger at Thunderhill, he got sick after less than two laps. He had good puking skills -- he got it all out the window very cleanly.

When I took Chris out, we deliberately went to the back of the pack (I'm not sure if it was a blue or red run group) and I made a point of passing pretty much the entire field (so it was probably blue) before his stomach started to have trouble. So, for starters, you had a show-off driver throwing the car around a lot. And in Chris's defense, he told me we needed to go in -- and I misunderstood what he'd said. (I hadn't given him my usual 'tug at my sleeve if you're feeling like you're going to get sick' talk.) If I'd heard him correctly, we would have been in the paddock before the Rosamond-gourmet lunch made its return.

As it was, he gave me lots of warning, and we were able to get off line and into the dirt for all three of the stops to, uh, 'toss out an apple' (as they describe it on the tape).

We're all vulnerable to it -- I usually won't go out with a student in the first session after lunch for that exact reason. But Chris handled it very well, not leaving anything behind in BB2. He's on par with my own brother in puking skills.