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9 and 3? 10 and 2????
I use my lucky 8-ball suicide knob. Makes tight quick turns a breeze!!! 
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Or how about the Al Unser Jr. steering wheel technique. First, drink a lot. Then let your girlfriend drive you home. Then, grab a hold of the steering wheel (3 o'clock position with your left hand). Wait for your girlfriend to punch you for trying to drive while she's driving. Then, punch her back. Then, make her pull over and leave her by the side of the road. Drive home (using proper 9/3 o'clock technique). Wait for an hour or so until the police arrive and start to ask questions. Then, forget that you have a girlfriend until they get really pushy. Remember that you did have a girlfriend until she got out of the car.
That's the Al Unser Jr. steering wheel technique. It's usually followed by 30 days of treatment before you're allowed to touch a steering wheel again.
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Yea, perhaps a bit rough but I liked that guy. He had a great career and drove Porsches as well as he drove open wheel cars.
He goes to a strip club, gets drunk, ends up leaving his girlfriend on the side of the road and then claims he does not know her? All of this from his motorhome at the Indianapolis Speedway. Come on Al, you can do better than that. Sorry if I it seems a bit harsh and I probably would not care if I did not respect him so much as a driver. Get yourself together, own up to the mistake and I'll be a Little Al fan again.
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Bruce, little Al has been on a downward slide for some time.
Not sure of all the details but family problems with maybe a handicapped child and hiding in a bottle. Possibly the reason he no longer drivers for Roger P. I liked the guy as well. Still remember when he won the Indy 500 with the milk mustache and tears running down his face. |
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That's true Don, he has had health problems in his family.
I just like to see drivers go out in style, he's got more years of driving in him if he choses, I just hope he turns the corner and proves that he can get back to his old self. We never know what's behind a story. For some reason this incident just bugged me- he's a good guy doing stupid things. I've done a couple stupid things as well.
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I wanna go quietly, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car...
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Me too, Thom.
My assistant drove up behind a brand new Corvette the other evening, waiting the the traffice light to turn. When it did and the Corvette did not move, she got suspicious. She got out of her car to go up and check and sure enough, the driver, a gentleman in his 70's, was sound asleep. Slightly embarassed, he sped off without a word. Looks like I've taken a perfectly good topic on driving fundamentals and run it into the ground. Sorry for the off-topic excursions.
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1973 Porsche 911S 2.4S 
