{"id":460294,"date":"2004-09-01T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=97805"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:31:30","slug":"historical-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/historical-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can you hear that creaking sound? That\u2019s the sound of me opening Pandora\u2019s Box once again. At the risk of alienating oh, maybe 95% of our readership\u2014I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and state that, in my opinion, Formula Ford drivers are among the best drivers in historic racing today. Now, before you start organizing your local editorial recall campaign, let me explain my rationale why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of June, I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to race one of Sabina Precision Preparation\u2019s 1976 LeGrand Mk21 Formula Fords at the HSR-West Historic Festival at California Speedway. Since it\u2019s been over five years since I raced Formula Ford in my Lotus, I came into this race with pretty low expectations and a fair bit of trepidation as the Historic Festival utilizes all of California Speedway\u2019s Long Course\u2014including 75% of the high-banked oval. For those of you who have raced at Daytona or California Speedway, you know what I mean by trepidation. Having never raced on a super-speedway before, my mind was filled with images of any one of a million speedway crashes that resulted in the car going backward (or worse\u2014forward!) into the wall, with the hapless driver having an early Monday morning appointment with the tailor to have all his pant cuffs shortened by a couple of inches. In fact, for the entire first day of the event, every time I entered the Turn 1 banking\u2014flat out in fourth gear\u2014I found myself reciting a new mantra, \u201cPlease don\u2019t break. Please don\u2019t break. Please don\u2019t break\u2026\u201d However, once I realized that the car wasn\u2019t going to break, and that I wouldn\u2019t need that appointment with Terry Trammel after all, I was able to get my head around actually racing the car. 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