The driver of the Jetta next to us at the red light revved his engine in a “you wanna go?” sort of way.
But when Sarah Fisher is driving your car, and your car is an Indy race car, you look at the driver and give him a “you don’t wanna go” smile.
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During lunchtime Wednesday, she was kind enough to give a 10-minute tour of downtown Fort Worth in a street-legal Indy car complete with brake lights and an Indiana license plate.
Marking this down as an educational assignment, learned three things:
(1) Downtown streets are a lot bumpier when you sit closer to them.
Those Indy cars are low to the ground, and hit one bump going around the convention center that was going to rearrange some of internal organs.
(2) An Indy car does not handle well on streets.
“It doesn’t turn real sharp,” Sarah said. She said it has something to do with the wheel base and the geometry up front. I didn’t do well in geometry, so we’ll move along to the third thing I learned.
(3) People are fast with their cellphone cameras.
People were almost doing a double-take to make sure they really were seeing a race car mixed in with the regular traffic.
At one light, Sarah even pulled out her iPhone and took a picture for Twitter.
Then there was the time Sarah gave rides in New York City.
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Compared to New York City cabbies, a thrill-seeking Jetta driver isn’t much of a threat.
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