Your "Professional" Mercedes driving instructor...

[ifly16v at yahoo.com (David Harris)]

lol, so you are selling your 16v to get one of these
then, Neal?

--- Neal Tovsen <nealtovsen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A couple weeks ago, my autocross region was asked if
> any of us would like to be driving instrctors for an
> event put on by the AMG performance car division of
> Mercedes. They even offered to give us a hotel room
> and pay us! I got to drive all the different AMG
> Mercedes, but I spent most of my time running around
> the Daytona speedway in one of these:
> 
>
http://www.caranddriver.com/article.asp?section_id=19&article_id=1844
> 
> (BTW, according to the information I was given, the
> car has about 30 more horsepower for 2004)
> 
> All I can say is, "Will anyone borrow me $114,000?"
> 
> I let about 75 millionaires take me around the
> autocross course and tried to teach them how to
> drive
> fast. I got a lucky assignment, as only about three
> of
> us instructors were given the opportunity to beat
> the
> heck out of the SL ourselves and take the customers
> for a good ride. 500hp is a lot of fun on a tight
> autocross course, and the cars handle amazingly
> well,
> despite weighing over 4000 lbs!
> 
> Though some of my friends did, I never got to go up
> onto the big NASCAR oval track. We also got to meet
> "real" pro drivers from various race series. Seeing
> the huge, full-size S55 AMG sedan rocket around the
> track at 160mph was amazing. It looked very
> comfortable at that speed.
> 
> Neal
> 
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