Re: Saying good bye to a faithful friend
Kind of wish someone here had bought the car so we can still see it buzzing around on track now and then. In my experience, there's literally no exotic that in stock form that has matched it in terms of taking hotlap after hotlap in this climate, trackday after trackday, without a hiccup. And I say it completely without bias.. not 430, not Scuderia, not SV, not 458. It's kind of like GT3 reliability. Maybe the latest generation Gallardos are the same or do even better. I've heard of other local SLs having problems so maybe they got lemons, or yours was a plum? hahah
I remember being a trackday along in someone else's car and thinking to myself.. ok.. this guy is going pretty good through this section here... then suddenly this SL appears alongside before T9, awesome decals on
...and with a crack and a shriek disappears over the T10 crest. The panning effect watching from the passenger seat was just great and I wish we had been running video then. Damn I'm gonna miss that car, but consolation is what's coming is purer.
And of course congrats on the twin top 2s in the time attack finals - beating the workshop GTR that in the previous round had beat you. The other SL at the competition was 8 - 9 seconds slower than you hahah.... plus graveled. It's always different under limited-lap pressure, plus the thought of risking an expensive car, and dealing with traffic. Talk is cheap.