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Old Mar 2, 2004 | 04:10 PM
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The course map is confusing. What is supposed to happen after the second slalom?
Uh, the true 2nd slalom or the second slalom-ish series? O.K., start -> little meaningless wiggles (at least to our size cars) --> tap brakes for moderately open "Chicago Box" ---> on gas for long, increasing distance optional slalom, brake hard ----> 90 degree right into a 3(6, actually) cone optional slalom, brake a little -----> 90 degree left ------> pretty open straight with a little lane left/right/left change and hard braking at the end, while trying to stay right ------> 90+ degree left (stay out of the drink) into the left sweeper --------> decide if you want to take a slalom that's as tight as legal with every spare cone in the truck waiting to get whacked, OR take the line you're in through the benign chicane --------> brake into another 90 degree left, and into that same 3 (6) cone slalom, but you're entering and exiting differently both times through (if you want to), brake--------------> same ole' 90 deg. left, but you're coming into it on a faster and earlier apexing line ------------------> same ole' straight with a little left/right/left lane change, but when you brake this time through you'll be braking straight-----------------------> a DIFFERENT! 90+ degree right, into the long right sweeper-----------------------------> another meaningless wiggle to keep you on your toes while shifting to 2nd-----------------> a few gates to keep you from cheating on the "?" (what do you call that thing) well, you'll have to brake into it unless you're in a skinny little Datsun 2000 or a kart--------------------------------------> back standing on the gas and through ANOTHER absolutely meaningless wiggly 1/2 lane change and through the "hallway"/"alley"/"chute" (some would call it overusage of old blackened pylons)----------------------------------> oops, cook those brakes again and hope you have ABS on that 10ae <did you find the modulator?> and into another nameless slowdown quick jog thing-a-ma-jigger-----------------------> gas brake gas into the 90+ (maybe 115*) right and through a long left sweeper, apexing early and sliding your (insert RWD car's name here) across the finish and not into the drink.

If it rains, again, I'm going agnostic.
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