[DAVID GAGNARD]

Perry;

I've seen both sides of that equation.... At one open track event there were 6 or 8 Porsches,most were less than 2 years old and very beautiful and fast,seems they always had a 30 something year old Ivy League looking guy driving them. At the drivers meeting each morning and at noon they stood together a distance from the "regular guys",they would not associate or talk to anyone that was not driving a Porsche....

Next open track,one 911,I ran with him three times,he was 2 seconds faster than me,but if he started behind me he could not pass me,I would run off and leave him on the two straights and after 2 or 3 turns he be back up to me but did not have enough to go around me,when I started behind him,he would run off and leave me a 1/4 lap by the end of the session.....

After one long session behind me,(he started there on purpose)he came to talk to me and asked about my car,said he never say an old Fastback handle as well as mine,very nice down to earth guy.....He had been racing for a number of years and is a lot better driver than I am (I'm just getting into road racing),he told me I drove a good line thru all but three turns and if we went out on the track together and I drove the line he told me,he thought I could knock about 2 seconds off my lap times.... Well, I told him for two seconds he could have my next born,went out and followed his advice and lead and sure enough knocked two seconds off my lap times.....

Not all these guys are snobs,some are real nice,you just have to look a little harder to find them.....There are snobs in every walk of life,they are a fact of life,something I can not do a dam thing about,so I just do not let them bother me,very simple.......

David