When I started racing cars just out of High School there was monster on the top of the hill at Laguna Seca. It was called Turn 4 and it was the key to a fast lap. Scrub too much speed and you lost that lap to gravity, too much speed at the armco barrier was rifgr against the edge of the track...over which the next place you would land was at the foot of a great long drop. I used to call it "The Salinas Off Ramp".
Racers being who they are a common sense of humor was in view in each car. It was on the hub of each steering wheel, resplendent in plastic dymo labels. It usually had one message...
"Don't lift"
In Vees to do turn 4 right you had to do it it with you foot buried, a leap of faith if there ever was one.
I started out with the same message on the hub of my wheel, "Don't Lift" and I tried my damndest to follow the instructions. Eventually though that sticker dried up and fell off and I replaced it with a different one. It said
"...straight on until morning..."
I always have been a bit odd.
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