"Here Dad, you drive this bear", comes to mind.
Reminds me of a driver we'd hire on occasion. "Gear me low, the groove is inside and tight". Yeah, for quals and heats. Come feature time, he'd be rim riding in the marbles. The over-rev that came with that usually drove the pushrods through...
🤣 Took him 3 races to get scared? 🤣 Only took me one. And heck I was just warming up the oil in the prelims for our driver's qual run.
Went back to wrenching full time after that. Only time I ever drove a sprinter again was after repairing the steering box/rack once. Driver would not get...
Crewed a sprinter back in the '70s. B-feature dirt track car. 327 cu in hilborn injected small block chev. Car ran the Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas bull rings. Best education an aspiring race car mechanic can get.
Go get 'em, biggman. . .