Subject: Close call

[chris.miller at infofoundry.com (Miller, Chris)]

John:  glad you've got good reflexes.  Love those 200q20vs; been to many
a track event in them (they're pretty popular even now).
Consider joining us with the Audi club at the track (NHIS) on May 15-16;
right up in Epping NH.  One of the main things you learn is car control.

http://www.naaclub.org/

Heck, you should have gone to our winter driving school last weekend up
in the Littleton area at Tim O'Neil's rally school.  2 days practicing
understeer, oversteer, countersteer and recovery.  Sounds like your
reflexes worked out OK.

A Scirocco would also be a good car at that track; it's pretty tight.
I'm hopeful to bring my big Audi coupe, but that's probably too soon to
finish the turbo conversion (with my motor from a '91 200q20v).

Chris
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Chris Miller, Bolton, MA  c1j1miller@aol.com 
'97 Audi A4tq, '91 coupe q, '85 4ksq, '81 VW Scirocco
'91 200q20v site ==> http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/welcome.html 

-----Original Message-----
<Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:20:15 -0500
<From: "John S. Lagnese" <jlagnese@massed.net>
<Subject: Close call

<Hi,
<While casually driving home today on I 95 just south of the Hampton 
<tolls in NH I got a major scare. It was extremely windy, 65 mph gusts, 
<I was speaking to my wife with the using my cell phone with the
headset. 
<I saw a tractor trailer about an inch from my car, a 
<91 Audi 200 Turbo Quattro. It was still moving into my lane. 
<I yelled Holy F#$k, then I jerked the wheel about 120'. 
<The Audi jumped into the other lane. I was sliding at a 45 ' angle at 
<about 80 mph. I straightened the wheel. The car did a  couple of 
<fishtails and snapped straight.
<I really would not have thought that the car could do that. I have
never 
<been so happy to be wrong.  I'm still thinking I was lucky to be 
<writing this now!
<BTW I bought a couple of lottery tickets considering that this must be
my 
<lucky day!
<John
<87 16v
<91 200TQ20V daily driver 
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