I met Gary and Joel last year when I was at Sears Point for 4 days last fall. The 1st 2 days were Audi events (though Audi Club let me bring my WRX). Gary was on the track during the Audi instructors run groups, practicing for the last USTCC race. (The Audi club was really cool about letting some of the racers on the track, usually it is reserved for the club.) So, I was on the track at the same time (passenger in an instructor's car), so I got a chance to see him go flying by in the passing zones - it was incredible to see the jump in speed between how fast our instructors drove, and how fast he was.
On Thursday his transmission broke, and so they were scrambling to find a replacement. I told Joel I'd offer to let them use mine if they couldn't find another in time for the race. Luckily the Subaru dealership came through with another. But that would have been awesome if they ended up actually having to swap mine into a racecar.
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