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[inaki]

Was driving home tonight and going down very windy road called Bear Creek Rd. Started to come around a corner going moderately fast but not recklessly so, when a black mitsubishi ricemobile comes around the corner the other direction..

..and drifts into my lane..

I'm thankful for my instinctual driving.. I avoided hitting him at all.. It meant going around him on the outside, spinning out and hitting a tree, but I didn't have a headon at high speed on a mountain road with no cell signal.. =P

So a broken headlight, smashed bumper, front fender, bent hood, rear fender, and one guard rail later, I managed to drive myself home..

I also got a pulled muscle in my leg from it, but am otherwise alright.. no whiplash or anything, and not TOO major damage to the car..

The amusing part was, I got home to find my roommates (who're fire fighters) were out on a fire call.. to go rescue me.. =P

I could really have done without this, but at least I have the weekend off..

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Re: Judging from Inaki's description...

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I'll have to poke you the next time a good open track day comes up. They don't restrict what kind of vehicle you can drive on the track usually. Every track day I go to not only provides instructor time in your vehicle, but some of them won't even let you on the track without an instructor. They'll show you the limits of your car and I guarantee you will skid out of control at least a few times. The upside to that is it teaches you how to react aside from just freaking out. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shaking the first time I 180ed off a track at speed. I had to head back to the pits and walk around for a while to catch my breath on that one. Most track days are only about $200 but you get about an hour of seat time with it and tons of useful instruction.

That's not even getting into the fact it's just a hell of a lot of fun. ;)