Sunday's AX at Mineral Wells, Kudos to Travis Howard Options

[ClayPerrine]

Sunday at Mineral Wells saw 15 914s running for the AX there. This was NOT planned in any way, they all just showed up.

So much for the Cali contingent who have to plan to get 6 guys to show up in their 914s for an AX. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)


And Kudos to Travis Howard. We had an engineering casualty. JR's neighbor (Mike?) had his motor let go in his 74 2.0 on his first run. Travis had trailered his 914 to the event. He let Mike drive his car home, and he put Mike's 914 on the trailer and took to all the way to Wes Hildreth's shop in Plano for him.

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[Betty]

Instructing was my pleasure! I am always glad to help introduce a new person to the joys of autocrossing! Mike did spectacularly for his very first autocross! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Mike also rode along with me for two runs (I was just happy somebody wanted to ride with me, my car is sooo slow compared to the other guys). I think I may have freaked him out when I started taking a hand off the wheel during the runs to point out important cones and gates, telling him what I was doing the whole time, telling him "watch my feet as I'm downshifting for this corner"... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I could tell he was HOOKED when I heard him say afterwards "I don't care about what it costs to fix the engine, I just want to race now!". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Don't let Wes hear that though.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)