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drop down to second gear and work my way back up to fourth gear without ever having issues. One thing I did have issues with was weight transfer. Going into a corner too fast made the car push wide or even kick the rear end out on power. I was amazed that my Dad and I could drive the GT4 in back-to- back sessions and the car didn’t care. It had no issues over the entire weekend. I’d heard that you could pound Porsches on the track, but didn’t fully understand how much until that weekend. After all, there was no way my daily driver could have survived that track without breaking something. One of my best experiences that weekend was when I rode with one of the instructors during their session. When we got up to the blend line while getting out on the track in his GT3RS, I realized that this was going to be fast! The instructor’s driving was very smooth, easily doing twenty to thirty miles per hour faster than I had been at all times, but with none of the chassis upset. That was the fastest I have ever gone in a car in my life. There is nothing like the wind roaring through the open windows, gripping the door panel for my life, and praying that there would still be track beneath the car when we crested the blind turn alpha zero. That was one of the greatest weekends of my life; even now, days after as I write this, it’s almost all I can think about. - Emma Meanwhile, back in the pits, Jeremy Butcher was in need of the engine expert Dr. Karl. Fortunately the diagnosis was an easy one. Jeremy then gave the good Dr. the one finger salute. ~ Editor 60 Der Sportwagen