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- From: alan@lancaster.nsc.com (The Hepburn)
- Subject: Re: Get your kicks on Route 166
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.164356.22150@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Sender: alan@lancaster (The Hepburn)
- Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
- References: <1992Nov17.222620.21921@spock.retix.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:43:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.222620.21921@spock.retix.com>, dspencer@spock.retix.com (David Spencer) writes:
- |>
- |> More good news for me is that once again I keep my clean record.
- |>
- |> Hey, this is just a FYI kind of a posting...Oh, but hey, while
- |> I'm at it, those of you who go on speed runs, which deserted
- |> highways do you prefer?
- |>
-
- Well, Dave, up here in the SF Bay area there's 2 areas that are ideal for
- testing a vehicle's top end. One area is outside Monterey and the other is
- is the North Bay: Laguna Seca and Sears Point. In SoCal, you can try
- Riverside.
-
- My point: to drive as fast as you can as safely as you can, with no worries
- about keeping your record clean, you can't beat tracks! Ovals or road courses
- are much better designed for high speed driving than most highways. Of
- course you can argue that highways were originally designed for high speed, but
- that speed was on the order of 75 mph, not 175 mph, and without proper
- maintenance, most roads degrade over time (especially here in Ca). Tracks,
- on the other hand, have been designed for one thing: to allow race cars to go
- as fast as possible and most tracks are well-maintained for just that purpose.
-
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- Alan Hepburn "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know
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