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You did great with a bad situation. Instinct kicked in, and your hands and feet knew what to do.

Roebling road is a fun and easy track, Just down the straight, and make a right and then is it just sweeper, after sweeper, and back the front straight. There is basically zero elevation change.

On my first session I had an instructor, mostly to show the the visual cues to aim for the apexes. And I came around the last corner to get on the straight, I drifted across the track in a nice 4 well drift, and got two wheels off track. I just carefully and slowly turned enough to get back on track and my instructor said well done. He let me run the rest of the day by myself and in the next faster group.

It was HOT that day. The heat index got to 135. I drank a case of water and managed to pee once just a little. I was really happy to be done and get in my air conditioned car and go back to the hotel.

If you ever get the urge to try a really super fun track go to Missouri International track. It is basically a 4 mile long track through the forest, with 1,200 feet of elevation change. Constant up and downs and endless curves. There is no real straight. The roller coaster is a blast, down a steep hill and my old 3.2 screams up to redline in third like it has a turbo, hit the bottom of the hill, and back up the next hill in 4th. Lift at the top of the hill to keep it planted on the ground, over the crest and wind it up.



I liked it more than Laquna Seca.
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