Dragon Events Tail of the Dragon (Highway US129) 318 curves in 11 miles, is America’s number one motorcycle and sports car road.

At the dragon this weekend

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Old 10-29-2006 | 09:49 PM
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AH DAMN! that sucks man!

I remember you smoking me good on 28! Its a damn shame you got bitten by the Dragon. i hope you get it all taken care of.
Old 10-30-2006 | 07:00 AM
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that could have been alot worse brother.....glad you made it out ok and it was still driveable to carve the road up some more.

so what happened? did you actually spin around or just get side ways into the cliff?
Old 10-30-2006 | 01:08 PM
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Sorry about your owwie - at least you weren't this asshat:

http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/OrderPage....1669&po=1670&c=


Old 10-31-2006 | 03:15 AM
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That asshat is in about the same position that corvette was when I came around the previous turn. But yes, luckily I was able to keep it on my half of the road.

I just braked late, and ended up trail-braking the rear end loose and into the side of the mountain. The car stayed pointing basically the right direction, just about 5 feet right of where the car should've been.
Old 10-31-2006 | 09:25 AM
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Nothing worse than another car in your lane while playing on the Dragon.

A little rubbing compound and some $$ and she'll look just like new.

Hope everythig works out for the Best Andy.
Old 11-01-2006 | 07:03 AM
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Here's a rough copy of the video my friend in the STi was running. About 24:30 is where the action starts.

http://media.putfile.com/Dragon-Run-1

At 22:41 you can see me hugging the very inside of the turn because the black C5 was in my lane (when he appears on video he's crossed back over).

At 22:48 I've already stopped and I come back into frame. Then you can see my happy attitude about the situation as the camera rolls for another minute or two.
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