My day at the track
By Rev. Alonzo Graham Taylor III esq. etc.
First thing today I woke up. Then I went over to VIR to instruct for Track Daze. Even though I am officially retired from instructing I bought a $140 communicator as I figured I would have a novice student. My student was an intermediate with a Porsche 928S. When preparing to head out for the first session I noticed his 2 front street tires were worn to steel belts…hmm, both tires to steel belts from the inside to halfway across the tread. upon inquiring as to how this came to be I was told that the tires looked great when he left Sterling VA, 200 miles away, last night. Well, I figured it may be a short day as he was running on Hoosiers, that should burn up in about 3 laps if his street tires were an indication of how the alignment was. The Hoosiers did fine but a front lower control arm ball joint only made 5 laps.
Anyone want an “almost new” chatter box? $100 delivered.
After hearing from every joe-bob about how lucky we were I recovered enough to take some track sessions myself. In our first session after lunch I went out behind a Sentra-SER that had a student (or girlfriend) riding shotgun. This person had a “Hello Kitty” sticker covering the back of her helmet. Now, I like cats…but “Hello Kitty” is some kind of subversive commie-pinko cartoon that warps the minds of our young folks. Anyway, this guy decides to swerve to warm his tires on a green flag track…well some of yall know how I feel about that. I withstood the urge to “wake him up” and even waited until oak tree turn to stuff it under him without a point (he had backed up 10 or so cars). I think it made him mad as he thought the track was yellow, even though he had passed 8 flag stations without a flag displayed. The combination of the Sentra, Hello Kitty, and the swerving just about sent me over the edge so I pulled in.
Anyway, the weather is great and Skeen is signing lots of autographs.
Oh, be sure to replace those lower control arms, no matter what they look like if they are over a season old!!!
Al
to the 17 year old Hello Kitty girl? He’s got a thing for the underage apparently. We find out more this week.