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August 19, 2007: For one session, I took out a photographer.
Bill tucked in right behind my wife Janel in her little turbo Miata, and I planted myself on his tail. The poor photographer was having a bit of trouble hanging on to the camera!
After he was done with the pictures, he asked me to get the car sideways. Well, all right. So I booted the throttle coming out of a tight corner and the tail went wide...and the car snapped into a spin. We stopped parked backwards on the track with the engine stalled. That's odd, I had the clutch in. I looked down, and discovered the photographer had been using the only handle he could find to brace himself - the handbrake. When the car had started to slide, he tensed up and locked the back wheels on me! Thank goodness it happened on one of the slowest corners on the track. Everyone in the pits made sure I knew that they'd seen me spin the car, of course.

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