01-16-2004, 02:56 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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 nr Edinburgh, Whisky-soaked Scotland
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Originally Posted by r34_296kw
no, i mean old grandpa's, although you are not one yet but hopefully you will be one soon  |
aha, as a car and fast car enthusiast what you're needing is time in a car on a track or road with Jackie Stewart, Derek Bell, Jean Ragnotti. Jimmy McCrae, John Surtees, Stirling Moss. Or better still, in competition with them !
With experience comes an inordinate level of skill which enables a driver to anticipate a reaction which still keeps them at a higher pace than most drivers - including some modern track jockeys !!
What is lost in reaction time is more than made up for with what can only be learned by action 
( Personal experience, we lost in a rally before Christmas to two huys in their late 50s in a Mk 1 Escort. True the MGB can't compete on power and handling but the driver was as close as I've seen enyone get in driving a la Roger Clark and was spectacularly fast. Drving the ame car for 35 years he knows EXACTLY what he and the car can achieve )
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