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"Last week a cop stopped me in my car. He asked me if I had a police record. I said, no, but I have the new Dr Dre cd and told him to get with the times. Cops have no sense of humor."
Originally posted by Klostrophobic
"If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?"
"The chief qualities of a racing driver are concentration, determination and anticipation. A 1929 Austin without brakes develops all three - anticipation rather more than the first two, perhaps."
"Every winter, you would reckon on three or four big spills - and I'm talking about being thrown on to the ice at 100 mph. Those things [snowmobiles] used to slide a lot, which taught me a great deal about control. And the visibility was terrible! Unless you were leading, you could see nothing, with all the snow blowing about. Good for the reactions - and it stopped me having any worries about racing in the rain."
"... at about 240 mph the joints in the concrete road surface are felt like blows, setting up a corresponding resonance through the car, but this disappears at a greater speed. Passing under bridges the driver receives a terrific blow to the chest, because the car is pushing air aside, which is trapped by the bridge. When you go under a bridge, for a split second the engine noise completely disappears and then returns like a thunderclap when you are through.
"The road seemed like a narrow white band, the bridges like tiny black holes ahead. It was a matter of threading the car through them..."