Cobra Driving Takes Skill

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I let my 18 year old son drive mine. He started driving my Austin Healey at age 10. Go karts to, along the way, dirt bikes, all things mechanical. He's driven the Cobra on the road course race track up to 130 mph, doubles clutches into first for the hair pin at the end of the straight, to save the synchros on the trans. He's been sideways a number of times, drifted a few corners. Currently enrolled in a commercial pilot license college course, four year program. He was saying how the driving/biking mechanical knowledge he's gained before college is really paying off with his flight training. He has a very healthy 'fear' of the Cobra and what it can do! He was comparing 'pre flight' inspection of a plane to the way we 'pre flight' the Cobra at the race track.