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Originally Posted by Joyride86
However, I still enjoyed myself. I remember leaving and thinking, my car doesn't feel anything like the go cart. Lol.
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Ha ha, you have to be very careful after you raced, I tend to do weird things with the car even though I don't want too. It's just my brain retunes to high steering effort, high lateral Gs and always-full-throttle-when-not-braking, and tries to do the same thing in the car ;-).
Two more good stories from Jessup.
I once took an individual racing clinic there, and that was a great thing. I got three races with my instructor either following me to comment later or allowing me to follow him to learn from him. We discussed where I could improve, walked around the track talking strategy for particular corners. My laptimes went down consistently by 0.5 - 1 seconds.
Story 2: I am not interested very much in sports, especially in traditional American sports. So I was really surprised when I went to Jessup one Sunday evening, expecting crowds (that's another drawback of Jessup, it's crowded on weekends), and there was literally no one there except the employees.. Only then I realized that it was Superbowl night...
Now racing with people who are slow and have no idea what they are doing is bad, but racing completely alone is boring (for me). I whined a little about that, and the guys who work there were so kind that they raced with me once or twice before a few other people came. These guys are good, I lost to them, but my times were really good.
Then in the last race of my 8-pack on that day I had to race with some very slow people who kept blocking me, and seeing that the track guys gave me another race for free, again with them.