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Howard Jones · 10-17-05, 05:58 PM

Don I would love to have you show me around that place. It is a pretty hard track to learn. Three blind turns and a couple of long double apex corners. I really was loseing a lot of time thru three. I never did figure it out. I ended up just holding the bottomline all the way around so if I lost it I would stay on the track.

And the damn Cyclone thing. Jeeze! If I wanted to design a difficult turn I would do THAT. I finally gave up trying to go quickly there. Then theirs that thing in the back, must be 10 or 11, that is so blind that if you go down the inside to where you would think the apex should be you end up in the dirt at about 80mph or so.

I do have a lot to learn. Looking forward to the next time. I don't want anyone to think I could keep up with the fast guys. I ran in the yellow group, slowest, and it took all day before I was going quickly enought not to be in everyones way. Thats another thing. GT40s are very hard to wave anyone by in. I can't get my hand out of the side window like everyone else and they are looking for you to do that. Next time I'm taking off the drivers side window just for that reason.

Anyway had fun met more cool people.

10-17-05, 05:58 PM	#6 (permalink)
Howard Jones 10 tenths Join Date: Jun 2002 GT40: San Francisco Bay Area California USA Posts: 1,911 Rep Power: 26	Re: Betty\'s first real date. Don I would love to have you show me around that place. It is a pretty hard track to learn. Three blind turns and a couple of long double apex corners. I really was loseing a lot of time thru three. I never did figure it out. I ended up just holding the bottomline all the way around so if I lost it I would stay on the track. And the damn Cyclone thing. Jeeze! If I wanted to design a difficult turn I would do THAT. I finally gave up trying to go quickly there. Then theirs that thing in the back, must be 10 or 11, that is so blind that if you go down the inside to where you would think the apex should be you end up in the dirt at about 80mph or so. I do have a lot to learn. Looking forward to the next time. I don't want anyone to think I could keep up with the fast guys. I ran in the yellow group, slowest, and it took all day before I was going quickly enought not to be in everyones way. Thats another thing. GT40s are very hard to wave anyone by in. I can't get my hand out of the side window like everyone else and they are looking for you to do that. Next time I'm taking off the drivers side window just for that reason. Anyway had fun met more cool people.