[Mark in Baltimore]

Stellar weekend. I had a terrific blue student, fellow Dorki Darren aka fasterthanscott, who drove very well, learned some better lines and steering techniques exceptionally quickly, as in immediately, and inspired enough confidence in me to want to promote him to white. The region was short-handed on this busy weekend, so Darren's day will come at his next event.

It was nice to meet Mike Herman and Larry Herman. Mike is funny; after looking over his car, we started talking, whereupon he told me that he doesn't want to turn his car into a track car. I looked at him like he was kidding, then looked back at the race seats, roll bar and six-point harnesses and just started laughing, saying "Dude, what the hell are you talking about? You're already there!"

I tried to keep up with Eric Stratton, but his car is very fast in the straights and he is driving it really well in the corners. Ralf and Charlie made me work hard out there, too, and made the runs exhilarating. BTW, who had the white 928 in the white group? I wanted to run even harder, but was there with my student. I came by to tell you that you were driving great for a white group driver, but you had left for the day.

Oh, Jim Evans, TD, Bob Mulligan and I all had epiphanies of various sorts with Chris Cervelli, but that's for another thread and another time.

Thanks, Potomac, for another fantastic DE, and for allowing us to take our learning to another level.