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People say, you can afford it, why don't you race cars? Well it's a bit like sex, we all think we are good at it but I wouldn't try to make a living being a porno actor!
One year I was invited to drive in the Toyota Pro Celebrity race at Long Beach, which was great. But soon I realised that one or two of the drivers were taking it more seriously than the rest of us. Like any good driver, I wandered round checking the pressure in the tyres. But next to me there was Parnelli Jones, down on his knees filing the tread on the tyres to get more grip.
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| Jay and Danny Glover in 1989 |
So the race starts. I reckon all the cars have brake lights, right. So I decide to slip in behind Dan Gurney, another one of the greats. As his brake lights come on, so I brake. It all seems to be going well. And then, by the third lap I find Dan is behind me.
A few years ago, I was asked to drive the pace car at the Indy 500. They said would I like to come down a month before and do 50 or 100 practice laps. Would I? Of course!
Now Indianapolis is one of the widest tracks in the world. At 70 miles an hour I was marvelling at how big it seemed. Then, as I got up to 100 it started to feel a bit skinnier, narrower. By the time I got up to 140 it was very narrow indeed.
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