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I want one. Sure don't need one. Bought new, they're a bit over a hundred thousand. But a production car that will absolutely ....gyaddamighty. It's got a ginzillion horsepower and all-wheel drive and paddle shifters and 6-piston front brakes. Stock from the factory. "Stock," I said.
There's a guy named Mark West. He's co-king of Tracks Unlimited, one of the outfits that rents tracks for a weekend and sells tickets for track-day weekends for all the wannabes like me. And there's a market for it. He took me for a ride in his GT-R at Atlanta Motorsports Park, my first road course outing ever. I hate to ride with anybody, but that was so thrilling, there was no time to be scared. DAY-um. He was passing cars when he got to them, in curves, on the straights, stuff was going by so fast, he was eating everybody else alive. That was a ride I'll never forget.
So, here's a guy in a GT-R setting a record at Road Atlanta. My best lap time in Red at Road Atlanta was a 2:16 in the rain. And I was lapping folks. That was HUGE fun. Life fun. I was going slow a whole lot faster than the other rookies were. Watch this cat turn a 1:24. Ungodly. As the text says, into Turn 12, falling straight downhill....if you f-up right there, you're gonna hit the wall on the left and then the wall on the right and then the wall on the left again...watch this guy go. Having been there (and I'm going back), this is just breathtaking.
There's a guy named Mark West. He's co-king of Tracks Unlimited, one of the outfits that rents tracks for a weekend and sells tickets for track-day weekends for all the wannabes like me. And there's a market for it. He took me for a ride in his GT-R at Atlanta Motorsports Park, my first road course outing ever. I hate to ride with anybody, but that was so thrilling, there was no time to be scared. DAY-um. He was passing cars when he got to them, in curves, on the straights, stuff was going by so fast, he was eating everybody else alive. That was a ride I'll never forget.
So, here's a guy in a GT-R setting a record at Road Atlanta. My best lap time in Red at Road Atlanta was a 2:16 in the rain. And I was lapping folks. That was HUGE fun. Life fun. I was going slow a whole lot faster than the other rookies were. Watch this cat turn a 1:24. Ungodly. As the text says, into Turn 12, falling straight downhill....if you f-up right there, you're gonna hit the wall on the left and then the wall on the right and then the wall on the left again...watch this guy go. Having been there (and I'm going back), this is just breathtaking.
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