Joe is normal... at least in my mind!!!
I had an experience at a PDX earlier this year when I drove a Cobra Replica around NHIS. The student was great, but it took him about 2 hours to settle down from the ride I gave him!!! I will never forget when I first got into the car, the student talked for a while how unique the car was and that I should take my time learning it and not rush into things, I guess spinning the tires through third gear on the first lap out of turn 3 wasn't taking my time!!! lol I even took him out in one of our team cars after that session to show him how much faster I could have gone with his car, but that I was actually being gentle in his car. At the end of the day though that student had improved a million %, he learned A LOT that day and appreciated the earlier ride.
As for crazy, what defines that? Taking unessesary risks, living on the edge, learning the boundries? I have not come close to spinning in every turn at NHIS and Lime Rock, and I certainly have not gone off track in every turn as well... ok maybe most of them... crap what turn havn't I gone off in... Ah ha, NHIS NASCAR turn 1 & 2 (not counting the chicane)!!! At Mid Ohio I only have been off in Madness and entering Thundervally so I guess I am not as crazy as Joe at that track!!!
Ok I voted...
Raymond
A short time later, as we're flying off into the infield section of Pocono's North Course at triple-digit speed I'm now thinking "holy s#!t, I didn't know this thing would corner like this!" All the while Joe is talking to me about something, but I swear I didn't hear a word he was saying. All I can think is this guy must be friggin' crazy to get into a strange car, when he had no idea how well it was put together, and start flogging it around the track like it was his daily driver. All said and done, it was a great learning experience; I learned what the car was capable of, and that it would hold up under hard use (or is it ab-use?). But as to the original question...I'll take a number one, with fries, please.
