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To: epicure who wrote (59035)	2/26/2001 8:48:00 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Jumping out of planes isn't big around here. That leaves the rest of the list. Though, for the most part, the people I know who are very into their cars don't drink or do drugs too much. It interferes. On the small tracks here, people mostly just wreck a lot. I haven't heard of a death. But the speeds are not the same. Mostly, they really love machinery, and are good with it. When you think of what someone who can take a stripped-down car and build it into such a fine piece of machinery, capable of what those cars are, I do wonder what they could do with the education for and direction into another field. Working on cars and racing is part of the fabric here. A father may never read a book to his kids, but he'll teach them how to rebuild a carberatur, and how to optomize it. For a place that is otherwise so slooooow in it's ways and life, the speed of racing is an odd contrast. One fan was quoted that if one more racer died, she'd never watch again. And she is probably among many. 4 deaths in less than a year is making a lot of people think. But it's much more than a sport here, in a way that even football doesn't reach. It'd take a lot to change it.