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The same things occurred during the second event I assisted with. We were able to get the Veterans involved in motor sports activities, and we had five participants at the ready this time around. This time around I approached VetMotorsports instead of them approaching me. I just volunteered and they were glad to have me. It ended up working out really well. We had five individuals, including one female, and I did the same things that I did for the Veterans during the San Diego event. This time they had a little four-cylinder Mazda or Ford...something like that. They all got to drive it, they all had a good time, and they all learned a lot about driving. A few of them even decided to take their own personal cars out and then come back at a later date. This is because we hold events, or rather competitions, throughout the year. So I shared my email and my Facebook page with several of them and told them to let me know when they were going to ‘go out’ and that I’d come out and ride with them and help them get really good at the sport.
The way I look to instruct is I try to teach folks by working on the positives. Everybody makes mistakes at this, and if this sport was really easy we’d have more people doing it. I always tell folks to go into a corner slow and come out fast, and if
you go in fast you’re usually going to come out backwards. They tested that out a little bit and they found out I was right. But, as I said, I try to work on the positives.
If they make a mistake we deal with it, laugh about it, and then try and correct whatever it was that needs correcting. Autocross is a really safe sport. It is one car on the course at a time, it’s kind of like downhill Slalom skiing. They start at the top and then they follow the course and whomever gets down to the bottom the fastest wins.
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