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hey explain to me this...........richy rich buys ferrari, takes to PIR, has snazzy ferrarri emblazoned fire suit and co-driver(instructor) has ferrari team suit. on 2nd lap turn 1 @ PIR, idiot does 2 360's in front of me.......IT WAS A NASCAR MOMENT ie. where the hell is he NOT GOING to be????? i was very damn close to nailing his sorry A$$, at great pain and suffering to my self,instructor and my car! after that stunt and cleaning out my pants, my instructor stated" you sure as hell dont need me, you know what your doing". i thanked him for the positive comment,despite wanting to ring richy riches neck for being a total jerk.
now if i had hit him and survived,could i have sued him for being a poor driver?
NO ! LITTLE CLAUSE ON BOTTOM OF DRIVERS FORM!!!! RACING IS AN INHERENTLY DANGEROUS SPORT! sh%* happens racing pure and simple and it happens alot more than you hear about. getting my qualifications back after 29 years since i raced my SCCA datsoon 280-Z, has been fun, but not without some real hairy moments. in SCORE/HDRA racing anybody can show up in anything as long as it passes tech inspection. no training, no nothing. starting order is the luck of the draw and you can get some real idiots that do not know the first clue of driving and really screw things up for others on say the goat trail and other infamous places in baja. we call this anomoly "more money than brains"!!! and that can and has been a deadly combination. try getting a dead body out of mexico !
bottom line is no matter how good you may be, there is always someone worse and they somehow manage to screw up your day. the only thing that saved me from center punching that ferrari, was i have spent alot of time behind the stick off road, and KNOW how to handle a car with its A$$ END LOOSE. thats just how you drive off road due to traction, kinda like rally cars powering thru corners and never lifting off the pedal. had i not done alot of this type of driving in my past, i may not be writing this now!!!
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