[427sharpe]

STG: Have you ever read Brock Yate's book about the Cannonball?? VERY interesting reading...and entertaining , too! I especially like the part about Rick Kopec (SAAC primo) getting tossed in jail for impersonating an officer...he tried to flash a 'borrowed' badge to get out of a ticket in the hinterland...didn't go over too well...Yates talks a lot about his co-driver (a certain Daniel Sexton Gurney) and the difference between driver's who race and racing drivers. The only better description I can recall is from Levine in The Dust And The Glory, where Levine was driving 'flat out, really hanging it out' and Gurney just blew by him..and waved! On top of it all, Gurney seems like a he// of a guy--got to chat with him for a few moments at a SAAC convention.