We have a really nice road course facility to the northwest of Pittsburgh. It opened as Beaver Run and is now called Pittsburgh Race Complex, or something like that. Anyway, there is also an excellent Kart track there. One year they had the CART Stars of Tomorrow in for an event and they had a celebrity event, and I use that term very loosely because I was invited to take part.
They put me on the pole and the woman who designed the track, also a professional driver in Europe, was in the #2 spot. She smoked me off the line like I stalled it. It took a few laps for me to get rolling, and I did improve each lap. I was racing myself, not her or anyone else. I was proud that I didn’t go off and my times kept improving.
When we go to France each summer we spend a few afternoons Karting outside of St. Tropez. It is a hoot. Great fun.
The CART Stars of Tomorrow event was awesome. Little kids in full racing suits, Juan Pablo’s little brother was there as was Graham Rahal. They were all so serious, which was really funny because the kids were so small.
It’s a great sport and they ought not fuck it up.
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