It was lots of fun!
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Originally Posted by husker boxster
Do you drive 'safer' with a passenger or does that thought go away when the red mist kicks in? She must have a cast iron stomach. I can't ride along on the track - I get motion sickness. Funny that it doesn't bother me driving.
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I try to dial it back a little when I have a passenger (which is somewhat rare as I mostly run with PCA and they don't allow passengers). And also I am not exactly on the edge either so I am kind of dialed back all the time anyway unfortunately...
For this event they assigned me to the Yellow (middle) run group but when I checked in at the track I moved myself down to the lowest run group as I figured the pace might be a little easier and more comfortable for taking passengers.
My conservative/passenger mindset does go away a little when I am chasing someone like in these videos, but I still take it relatively easy. For example in my last session in the video above where I pass the yellow/black race car, once I got around all the cars, that first lap was really sloppy and I was feeling the pressure from the cars behind me since I was barely pulling away and so I decided to cool it down for a lap and let everybody back by. And then my fuel light came on so I came in.
I had 3 passengers that day: my son James (1 session with me and one in an Exocet with someone else, he likes it the 2nd most), Kathryn (stepdaughter, 2 sessions, she loves it the most out of all of them), Jordan (stepson, 2 sessions, he likes it somewhat). My wife Sheri stayed home, she doesn't hate riding along, but... well she kind of hates it. Last time my son James went with me he could only ride one session and then he was too queasy and spent the rest of the day sleeping on a tarp on the ground.
When I ride with an instructor in their car I am usually ok for 20 minutes, then it gets to be too much.
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Originally Posted by husker boxster
Boy that Mustang was sure lucky! A few more feet further down the track and he'd be eating Armco.
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Yes he was! It was pretty scary for me because that lighter colored challenger was right back on me due to being held up by the darker blue challenger and then we all had to majorly slow down, it isn't in the video but the lighter blue challenger shot to my right during the slowdown.
That mustang spun out a 2nd time later in the day (or maybe this was earlier, I'm not sure). Must have thought there were some pedestrians there
Here, starting at 45 seconds in:
https://youtu.be/dO6oYArPY9E?t=45s