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Patiently waiting their turn to get back out on the track with these ne vehicles
The PEC track was designed to simulate spirited country roads. And if that was not enough, they threw in a skid pad, autocross, launch pad, and an alpine mountain pass for the Cayenne.
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ways, but then hard to catch. A much different story with the basic 911, as I’ve got some time with my 993 and I found it pretty easy to keep sideways or cor- rect. I gure that the instructor thought I would enjoy the track more than the “low traction” course, so we didn’t venture there. While I would have liked to have tried it – I simply trust the instructors to maximize my personal experience, which they did perfectly in my opinion. I heard some of the experienced drivers in our group had a good time on it!
About that Miami Blue C4S – what a machine. Carbon Ceramic brakes and all. My instructor was none other than Shannon McIntosh. If you haven’t heard of her, you will soon enough – the only actual “paid professional race car driv-
er” as an instructor there. Yep, here is a 60-year old wondering what this young woman can teach me after all my driving events. After the rst lap in the basic 911 – I shut my mouth and opened my mind and ears even wider. She was insightful, pushing, teaching, kind, etc. I enjoyed it so much, that I kept getting better and better in the C4S and found that the car is so much more capable than me. To the point that Shannon said I could go deeper into the corner and I simply re- plied – you and the car might, but not me. It was simply beyond what I felt was MY limit which she was ne with. I think I was concentrating so much, that I had to take a water break earlier than the time allotted. No worries – it gave us a chance to digest what was going on