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Laurie has always wanted
to go fast, very fast, in a car. Of course she wanted to do it under
controlled conditions at a race track and she wanted to drive a car
that looked like a race car and was really fast.
Last year
for her birthday Bob arranged for her to take a high speed driving
course that was offered at the Portland Speedway. The course
included two hours of classroom work that included physiology of the
racecar and the physics involved in making the car go fast and
handle well. When the classroom work was over, Laurie and the other
students in the class then donned racing coveralls and were able to
drive sixty laps around the track in a souped up car that looked
like a Winston Cup racer.
 Needless to say, it took several days
to wipe the smile off her face. Laurie is content now to drive her
bright red Pontiac Grand Prix and just remember the day she blew the
doors off other cars on the track.
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