For Christmas I gave Mark the gift of taking a race car driving course at Firebird International Raceway. Unfortunatly the class wasn't until this last weekend so he had to wait a little while to be able to enjoy it. On Saturday we headed out to watch him drive a formula one race car around the track. They gave him a little class on how to handle the vehicle and some safety information and then they were off driving!
Mark said the cars are really tight to get into and then once your in they put the seat belt on super tight and then go back around again and tighten it one more time. He said he couldn't move at all, even his legs were tight together and the car is driven with the pedals in front of you with your legs out straight.
This is them getting ready to take the laps around the course. Mark was a natural of course, he sped off right away. He ended up passing all the other cars that left before him. At one point he skid out the car when he was going around the curve. It happened to be the curve that was right in front of where we could watch from so we watched the whole thing happen. It was like watching slow motion...I hear the wheels trying to grip, see the car start to go sideways, then the complete opposite other way and eventually stop. My heart was racing! But he held it together great, never got off the track and no one passed him. He just started it up and was off again! Maybe he was born to be a race car driver!! :)
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