I arrived at Riverside with two definite advantages - a fast car, and a lot of prior experience gained, as the desert was being redeveloped. This meant after only 2 laps, the race had already turned to my advantage.
But alas, a small hiccup lay in my path . . .
Fastest on lap 2, my Eagle suddenly gained a careless clip, round the inner wall at turn 1. This caused two things to happen: 1/ We left the track to admire the scenery. 2/ My steering wheel did the same thing, at the same time! The sliding drawer it was attached to, decided to jump off it's track, as I slid off mine. "Grumble!"
My Eagle somehow managed to leave the track on both sides, before Artiglietti rolled up in 3rd, to survey the damage. The drawer mirrored this option. He wisely tucked in behind, while I recovered, and tried to tuck in my drawers . . . umm, my drawer while continuing to ess, though the esses.
Our two cars took a rather inventive guess, at the following ess, as I attempted to negotiate 4 sliding wheels, and 2 sliding rollers, without rolling, or bailing out - and the car behind followed, to watch all of this! . . . "Grumble!"
Somehow, I managed to hook up my sliders, and my slides, regain all 3 tracks, and pinned down the following hairpin without stopping, or loosing position. My thanks to Artiglietti for showing caution, and not laughing too much! Sorry we were not able to do, more serious battle. After that It became a lonely, but a glorious run.
