...as defined by Merriam-Webster is "violent and uncontrolled anger". Such was the theme of the remainder of our drive from Iowa to Indiana this morning. To preface, I can understand how irksome poor driving ettiquette can be........we have all experienced the offenders; left lane lingerers, tailgaters, agressive drivers, lack of consideration is rampant. We also all seem to take these experiences in stride as there's really little to do and in all reality getting somewhere a few minutes earlier is hardly worth the angst of road rage.
Oddly enough, my lovely co-driver Sebastian, as collected he may be in everyday life, turns into a road-rager of epic proportion. Suffice it to say..........I may have to insist on driving the public legs of the remainder of the race to keep sanity intact for us both.
With all that said, we did eventually make it to South Bend where we re-united with our Evergreen nemeses Ric & Loye in their Porsche Boxster and Nick & Farhid in their BMW M3. The sheer amount of crazy machinery was something to see.........everything from old school Porsche 930's to high tech Cadillac CTS-V's & Nissan GTR's with the most unique possibly being a 1948 Plymouth Coupe with the gnarliest exhaust note I've heard in some time. (You can see all the cars at Motor Trend's site dedicated to the race at motortrend.com/onelap)
Some good natured jabs were batted back and forth over lunch with our buddies after we went through registration, tech inspection, and receiving our packet of car stickers that makes our car even more conspicuous. Hopefully we can duck the local constabularies, but my hopes are pretty low on that one.
Tomorrow the event officially starts with the Wet Skid Pad Challenge here in South Bend. We've decided that with Sebastian's superior driving skills (note the emphasis on driving and driving only:) he'll be in the saddle for this event. Shortly after our run, we'll be on the open road, backtracking a bit to Joliet, IL (Autobahn Country Club) for our first road course event later in the dat at which point we'll turn around and be on our way to Kentucky for the following day's autocross event. So the race starts in earnest tomorrow and there's much to anticipate........we're giddy like school girls.........without the pigtails.
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