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Originally Posted by pylon
Keep em comin, I don't care. Some funny stuff actually.
I was just making relative comparisons. I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to experience some driving and riding clinics that 99% of people will never get a chance to do, by default of where I have worked, and it was certainly an eye opener. Being in a Porsche GT3, flat out, with a professional driver on an international race track certainly changes your perspective on driving "skill". There isn't a scary ride scarier than what those guys are capable of doing with a performance car.
The neat thing is, when you go to combined events put on my a manufacturer, where the drivers give you track and street demo's, These guys are some of the most mundane obedient drivers the second they hit a public roadway.
I don't for a second think I am the worlds greatest driver, but I certainly have learned a ton of performance driving techniques that most people would never learn, simply by being in the right place at the right time and investing a few bucks. At one point in time motor sports was one of my first loves, so much so I saved for a year to spend 5 days at the Skip Barber open wheel clinic. Make fun of me all you want, but the stuff you learn there, isn't the stuff they teach you at the AMA, and a ton of it can carry over to improve your everyday driving skills.
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So the rest of the world isn't allowed to have an opinion on driving until they've sat in a porche with Skip Barber (a professional driver I assume)? I guess all our hockey opinions are worthless as well, unless we've played shinny with Iggy?
When I was a kid I took five piano lessons from a pro. I guess that makes me the best piano player in the CP community?
Anyway, here's a new rant for a new day... People that refuse to put down their #$%@#$&^&$%$#%^ cell phones to perform a maneuver like a left turn or exiting a parking lot. You're stuck behind this a-hole, watching their haed go back and forth, hand plastered to the ear, big giant space a-coming.....wait for it.....GO! GO!....... Then they'll lurch forward three inches and hit the brakes because the opportunity dried up.
