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this is when it finally hit me this morning I'm walking around going we're
actually going to run One Lap of America if you don't know about this deal it's a
legendary event 34 years and before that it was the famous Cannonball Run if you
saw one of those movies back in the 70s that's what this is Brok Yates invented
this thing and it's got so much legacy to it and so much torture I'm going to
have my numbers wrong here but I think we're doing something like 19 events at
10 or 11 different tracks over the next eight days and we're going to drive 3500
miles so this is going to be really beyond roadkill levels of punishing but
we're about to take off now and do the wet in that event which is right here at
Thai Rak on their test track they have a whole facility here where they test
tires all the time and I think we're up
this
here's what I want you to do yeah when you get back out there I want you to hit
the paint a car hit the pace car you hit everything out of Iraq I want you to be
perfect okay there's a guy out of there just spun out yeah do the opposite of
that been in right got it we're good be fine sure it'll all go
well I've never gotten to drive my car fast Tony's about to drive through rain
on purpose sure this will go okay I'll get my car please don't kill my car
toning the Firebird is immediately behind me
I think that's David in the Hellcat right now I'm not sure but let's set
this up David's got a Hellcat with Hellcat power Hellcat brakes help get
steering suspension all that stuff traction control stability he's about to
go through the wet skid pad and then Tony is in my car
with none of that stuff and probably only 2/3 of the horsepower maybe even
less they're not even half the horsepower
which probably doesn't matter on the skid pad but I think Tony can hang I do
or he'll spin out and end up in the infield there was that drainage pipe oh
wow please don't kill my car Doosan around right
all right here goes fry burger he's a pretty conscious guy I don't really see
him spinning out with all that technology
good luck
using the wipers Oh sliding distance
lighting
let's say it's going pretty fast
all right so you go to the sprinklers one direction and you make a right you
go back the other direction
okay I wasn't too bad I have a lot of concentration I've never done a West
skidpad before and a little understeer little over here but I don't know better
safe than sorry and putting the thing out I want to watch Tony though
all right I've been in pin 69 Firebird that we just threw together somehow I'm
the first driver and we're going to see how this thing goes was born a little
bit of oil smoked out I think earlier this morning when we hammered on it but
excited it doesn't get this thing going I do not want to be the guy that blows
this thing off at the first event because I will be the guy helping fix it
bro all right here we go all right go Tony
you have wipers you stupid please don't drip the car I don't think
that's the fastest way around
nothing rip what
lot of restraint here by mr. Angela Wow hasn't drifted in one amazing
get laughter do
all right turn the wipers on
Viper's broke immediately
way outside you get involved here now
come on
all right been out free thank God and look the car didn't touch a wall yeah
it's really my goal for this is finished with the car looking mostly the same as
it looks today okay so that's what skidpad we've officially wrapped our
very first event of one lap of america and now we have to pack up and go to
another location for an autocross today and once we finish that we have to drive
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