No point beating around the bush, today’s Question of the Day is directly due to Brad Keselowski’s reverse-entry pit stop that he performed at Talladega recently. While coming into the pits, he managed to upset the rear of his Mustang racer and slid just about perfectly into his pit stall, facing the wrong way but otherwise right where he needed to be. If there was any kind of pre-meditation to the move, it is difficult to see it, because from where we are sitting we’re betting that he was just as surprised as everyone else was. That’ll be an episode of Radioactive that we can’t wait to hear. You know some killer commentary…the kind that will never be shown during the actual race event on TV…was spoken over the radios when he slid into his pit stall like that. Maybe next race someone can re-wrap his car to look like the General Lee just one time for a laugh.
So, with that, what we want to know is the moment you had the epiphany that your driving skills were unparalleled. It could be a race victory, the first time you lit the tires off and signed your name in molten rubber on some backroad, or the day you put a sharp pleat in the driver’s seat after something went very, very wrong, yet you managed to keep the shiny side up and every occupant in the car out of the meat wagon. I know my moment: when I learned how to whip a Rockford spin at speed in a Mercury Comet. To credit, the car had more to do with the stunt than anything that 14-year-old McTag had to offer, but that little Mercury was a dancer and in the right hands, would do some absolutely unreal maneuvers. Wait…was that really the moment? What about the time I drifted my Monte Carlo around a roundabout one night? What about the time I stood an LMTV nearly on it’s nose while off-roading? Maybe it was…
I have had a few moments myself..I pulled down from the water box for the next round of drag racing and the 7 other cars still in all followed me in my lane! No one wanted to run me and got a bye! (other guy got DQ’d) I lapped the field at a Rusty Wallace driving experience @ Michigan International and did donuts on a frozen lake Erie at 70 mph in a 4 speed Torino when I was a teen but the best? I got pulled over by an attractive, blonde Michigan State Trooper after getting popped doing 110 on I-75 and she eventually let me off with a warning!
Doing a track day/race school at Brands Hatch in the early 2000’s and setting fastest lap time in the MG Saloons and the second fastest in the Formula Audis. Never driven a RHD car before, or a Formula car, and my first visit to Brands.
Driving my 2004 GTO one day leaving the DMV (only owned the car about a month). Got stuck behind grandpa doing 40 in a 55 zone, so I dumped it into 2nd, punched it and managed to get the car sideways. I was looking at the driver in the other car thru my windshield and never forgot the expression on his face as I slid past him. Managed to straighten out the car and kept driving, shaking like a leaf but still driving! Looked behind and saw no car was in sight for a few hundred feet.
Winning the East Coast Mini autocross in the stock division and only missing 1st overall by a few 10th\’s. Sevierville 1997.
Winning the East Coast Mini autocross in the stock division and only missing 1st overall by a few 10th’s. Sevierville 1997.
67 impala sideways @ 90 mph