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12-08-2006, 04:45 AM
Joe,
Some really good thoughts that I appreciate. And I'm looking forward to hearing later how you feel about the roll cage once it has been installed in your street car and you've had some experience with it.
But, based on your last comment, I ought to clarify the situation with my son. I didn't want to be any more long winded than I already had been in my original message, and therefore just mentioned my son to indicate another reason why safety was such a concern. I couldn't agree more with your reservations about putting a young novice in a high horsepower car (notwithstanding the fact that they're validly applicable to my own driving -- and though, alas, I'm far from young, arguably I should heed the same advice). That's why if you attended any of this past season's DE events that my son and I attended together, you would have seen him in his 2000 Toyota Solara [Camry] -- and it's even the 4 cylinder model, not the 6 cylinder (much to the chagrin, I think of a few other novice drivers, in their Porsches, that he did a fair job generally keeping up with). Anyway, although I may very well remain in green forever, I am confident that if my son continues to attend the DE events he will likely find himself in blue before very long. (At his last event his instructor said he appeared ready based on his skills; my guess is that he'll nevertheless need to have a fair number of additional courses under his belt before he's actually promoted.)
All of which is to say that if/when my son is in the blue group we'll be able to, and I'll soon want us to, share my 993, so we can travel to and from events in a single vehicle. And arguably, with his skills, reaction times, etc., he's already at the point where he can handle the horsepower better than I can.
Regards,
Larry
Some really good thoughts that I appreciate. And I'm looking forward to hearing later how you feel about the roll cage once it has been installed in your street car and you've had some experience with it.
But, based on your last comment, I ought to clarify the situation with my son. I didn't want to be any more long winded than I already had been in my original message, and therefore just mentioned my son to indicate another reason why safety was such a concern. I couldn't agree more with your reservations about putting a young novice in a high horsepower car (notwithstanding the fact that they're validly applicable to my own driving -- and though, alas, I'm far from young, arguably I should heed the same advice). That's why if you attended any of this past season's DE events that my son and I attended together, you would have seen him in his 2000 Toyota Solara [Camry] -- and it's even the 4 cylinder model, not the 6 cylinder (much to the chagrin, I think of a few other novice drivers, in their Porsches, that he did a fair job generally keeping up with). Anyway, although I may very well remain in green forever, I am confident that if my son continues to attend the DE events he will likely find himself in blue before very long. (At his last event his instructor said he appeared ready based on his skills; my guess is that he'll nevertheless need to have a fair number of additional courses under his belt before he's actually promoted.)
All of which is to say that if/when my son is in the blue group we'll be able to, and I'll soon want us to, share my 993, so we can travel to and from events in a single vehicle. And arguably, with his skills, reaction times, etc., he's already at the point where he can handle the horsepower better than I can.
Regards,
Larry
'95 993