Re: 91 200q Rally Car!

[Michael Zamikhovsky <MikeZ755@sprintmail.com>]

Dave Puterbaugh wrote:

> I was a partner in a production gt rally car one year.  It is amazing how
> well these people drive!  There were very few crashes, although many times
> the cars strayed a bit from the road.  By the way, it is scary to be the
> co-piolot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Dave Puterbaugh
> 1991 200 tq
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hussey, Dan <husseyd@rayovac.com>
> To: 'Brett Dikeman' <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>
> Cc: 'quattro@coimbra.ans.net' <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 9:39 AM
> Subject: RE: 91 200q Rally Car!
>
> >There are plenty of mishaps, but those guys plain have tallent.
> >
> >I think you are wrong.  1 out of 5 DON"T crash, becuase they are good.  I
> >would, you would, but that is the difference.
> >
> >Later,
> >Dan
> >
> >> ----------
> >> From: Brett Dikeman[SMTP:brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 9:45 AM
> >> To: Paul C. Waterloo
> >> Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> >> Subject: Re: 91 200q Rally Car!
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Oh, the fun of new tires, a little slippery weather, a quattro and
> >> > imagination! I thought I was on ESPN2 in a Subaru rally car for a
> >> minute!
> >> > Those guys have BALLS!
> >>
> >> I once watched a TV special of "world's worst rally crashes."   30
> >> minutes of nothing but cars, crashing into things, flipping, etc.
> >>
> >> For every rally car you see go whipping around a corner sideways,
> >> engine roaring...there's about 5 guys out there who smashed into the
> >> wall, a pedestrian, etc.
> >>
> >> Brett
> >> ------
> >> Brett Dikeman
> >> brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net
> >> ~)-|
> >> "Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making
> >> them happy to be on their way." - Mark Twain
> >>
> >> "Oh no.  Not again." - The bowl of Petunias
> >>
> >> "... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a
> >> big enough hammer." -- Sun System & Network Admin manual
> >>
> >> Statler: "Hey, this one sounds cute."
> >> Waldorf: "You old fool, that's not the personals, it's the obituaries!"
> >> ------
> >>
> >They need to be able to drive well. This terrible class limits suspention
> mods so that if you drive fast you almost surely go off or bend your
> inadequatly prepared car which most of them are do to class limitation. This
> makes ProdGT cars disposable. Prod GT drivers that manage to run with open
> class cars either cheat or destroy their cars in 2 seasons, but win the
> class or do well in points.

  Mike Z