Old Apr 10, 2006 | 02:27 PM
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Azrael
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Fagin one of thsoe instructors made me enter small rally last year and as the stages were pretty short he commented on every single corner and there was sequence of blind corners through which he told me to go flat out, and said something like this "If you cut for the tree you see over the crest you will make it, otherwise you're goina crash very badly" The worst part was that he did all that sitting in a cafe with me and not driving my car... was pretty hard to belive him. I did but keep foot to the metal required superhuman strain of will for me. I was pretty sure I was going to die very badly


Another short story of this kind. After some repirs to my Esocs I went out with my mate and mechanic for testing - he was driving. He has some champion titles in rallying here in POland but in lower fclasses with slower cars, still he has driven many many 4x4 rallycars and street version of them. We went for some corners, a lot of sideways stuff and then comes the sequense - 100m straight, chicane (it was some pedestrian corssing made such way or something) in which we brake fro 160km/h to 120km/h and then straight from the chicane we are thrown into main dual carriage way - he drifts it through all the lanes to furthest one and straightens and says something like this "Damn, this car handles like shit".



Gap between pro rallydriver and us ordinary humans is just unimaginable, they are bloody Jedi Masters like Yoda
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