Car Rallies are Won with the Mind

Read it online at Autonet.

Sometimes a rally isn’t just speed-based, it’s a thinking race, where teams compete for points.

Favourite line:

A trick I learned that you can use too: the word “right” has two meanings, “do I turn left here?” Instead of responding with “right”, say “check.”

Above is Keith Townsend, the gentleman in the article, and co-owner of  Vehicle Dynamics Group, the company behind the Mazda Adventure Rally. He won the modern division of Targa’s Modern Division in 2006, and in 1996 placed 3rd in the Canada CRC Canadian Rally Championship.

Below is the co-owner, Jud Buchanan, who has 6 podium Targa finishes, and is the former lead instructor at the Porsche Advanced Driving School.

Both are great guys with big brains, and who you should hire to design your rally.

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Maximum Minimal Living

Friday morning I left home to attend a VW test event. It concluded at 1:30pm, and I had no plans after that, and all my deadlines were done. So I flitted around, from couch to couch, no master plan, and didn’t return home until late last night.

I lived for 3 days with just this:

Message is: you need much less than you think.

It’s easy as long as you’re a little prepared (toothbrush and small essentials are always kept in my glovebox), and have an imagination for solving mundane chores. It’s so refreshing to live like this. Try it.

 

 

Shutting Down till Monday

All’s okay, just overloaded with work, am out-of-country next week, and feeling a little burned out.  Haven’t yet missed a day updating this year, so now we know – I can make it half a year like that.  Second half I think I’ll schedule in a few more long-weekends, look at me learning.

Have a great weekend xo

 

 

I Sneak Away from Parties Always

sneaking away party animated

To go sit quietly, by myself.

I’m not anxious about socializing or speaking to people,
I just run out of things to say.

I speak so little in real life, my default is silent. I can make it entire dinners without speaking. One time, I didn’t talk to anyone for 5 days.

So a party or event is a lot of talking for me. This blog is a ton of talking.

This is a known. Here’s the email that came with an exclusive PR invite last month.

Remember that recent weekend I spent at the track? Apparently there was a bet going on, to see how long I’d last, before having to leave to be alone.

I’ve got it down to a science… don a cloak of invisibility…

… and I’m gone.