After all my track excitement and issues this weekend I almost forgot to mention I had a near tragedy the day before I went to the track on my way home from work.

A really nice blacked out s-line audi pops out of nowhere on me, flexed and took off from me while I was cruising across one of our long bridges in top gear doing somewhere in the 80s.

I meant to do a direct 6-4 downshift and for the first time in decades I FUBARd a downshift and went into second instead.

I was in a rush but thank god I quickly reversed my clutch foot direction when I started feeling a bit too much increase in revs and stopped the clutch engagement before it was solid.

While the audi took off down the road I let her drop to idle while checking vaccuum numbers and then checking boost reaction and listening carefully to make sure I didn't do anything dreadful like tweak the valves.

By the time I got home I was curious how bad I screwed up and remembered that my ScanGauge records all kinds of peak values for recall so I decided to see just how badly I screwed the pooch.

Not good, but it sure could have been worse. By my calculations I think the revs would have gotten over 8K if I hadn't caught it in time.