Perry and I were talking the other night, while we were talking about everything on earth.....he said he still wants to do a road course. It's on his bucket list.
Well, I've had enough of doing that. When I made that extremely accelerated video of Red running Road Atlanta and saw in fast motion how many times I was getting passed....That's just not safe. It's hard to realize at the time when all the adrenaline is pumping, you really can't accept what's going on. If you went 120 or 130 mph on the highway, you sure wouldn't have to be concerned about who's behind you.
But at a race track, you DO. Driving in the mirror as much as through the windshield. At Daytona, I was running with a line of cars and we came out of the Bus Stop into Turn3. There was a car up front that was just puttering along about 100 mph, not exactly on the apron. I was going to have to move up closer to the wall to pass him but there was a car behind me coming up like a rocket. I'm looking at the windshield, the mirror, the windshield, the mirror, I've got to make a decision or wreck a whole bunch of us.
The guy behind, he let off just enough to let me move up, he saw what was going on, he had that much vision and forethought. That was polite. So I let him by when we both got clear of the really "slow" car that was only going about 100 mph.
No, not any more for me. It's just not safe being an obstacle on a race track. I got away with it, enough times. More than enough times.
Well, I've had enough of doing that. When I made that extremely accelerated video of Red running Road Atlanta and saw in fast motion how many times I was getting passed....That's just not safe. It's hard to realize at the time when all the adrenaline is pumping, you really can't accept what's going on. If you went 120 or 130 mph on the highway, you sure wouldn't have to be concerned about who's behind you.
But at a race track, you DO. Driving in the mirror as much as through the windshield. At Daytona, I was running with a line of cars and we came out of the Bus Stop into Turn3. There was a car up front that was just puttering along about 100 mph, not exactly on the apron. I was going to have to move up closer to the wall to pass him but there was a car behind me coming up like a rocket. I'm looking at the windshield, the mirror, the windshield, the mirror, I've got to make a decision or wreck a whole bunch of us.
The guy behind, he let off just enough to let me move up, he saw what was going on, he had that much vision and forethought. That was polite. So I let him by when we both got clear of the really "slow" car that was only going about 100 mph.
No, not any more for me. It's just not safe being an obstacle on a race track. I got away with it, enough times. More than enough times.
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