Quote: I've attended that race several times and have navigated for a driver.
It takes balls to run that kind ov speed for sure, but it'd take more balls to be the navigator... I couldn't do it. I'm pretty comfy at illegal speed on highways... but to have to sit there with NO control... Heh... i couldn't do it. I dont even like 70-80mph from the passenger seat...
Quote: Let me tell you, that is a scary course at high speeds, especially on a crowned two lane blacktop in the hilly areas doted with roadside trees. It is NOT an easy course! For a guy to show up in a new car, for the first time on the course, and with no navigator in the 160 class, then to win it within 2 seconds of the goal time? That is phenomenal!
There is nothing not phenomenal about that entire effort. Thats why it stuck in my head all these years...
I couldn't be a navigator either!