How did we get on this tangent, again? ....

I'm not embarrassed to talk about my near misses / battle scars. 100% of mine can all be attributed to one reason: Driver error. I even repeated a few. (Doh!).

My track game is very similar to my golf game. I tend to shoot better scores when I leave my woods in the bag.

Uh... you asked me to?

Actually I thought you wanted to hear about the times that skills I learned on track and in autocrosses (and even sillycrosses) saved our lives? The driver errors are a lot funnier and decidely more numerous of course, but thanks to race training they've never done any real harm.

I think the autocross/DE training and how it helped save your butt a few times is a really good thread. It has high value....and it might encourage a few other drivers out there to learn to mitigate some of the risks in performance driving.

(Many of the new drivers unknowingly rely on the electronic technogadetry which keeps the rear end of the car behind the driver).

I wish I picked up those skills earlier in life. It probably would have saved me some heart-ache!

I'll start a thread on "how autocrosse skills saved my butt...and...near misses"

-RJ