If God drives he has a Porsche 911 Turbo, the apostles have a Cayman S and the angels have Mazda MX5s (bought in the US). Having just spent three days racing an MX5 around Carolina Motorsports Park I can tell you, that based on my intense-o-meter readings, the angels are having the most fun.
My youngest son Tom and I came to the scene of the bloodiest battle in the revolutionary war to teach Skip Barber and his instructors the finer points of the Australian way of driving fast. We paid about $4,500 each for the privilege. Skip runs the most professional racing schools in the US, which probably means the world. We didn’t have a lot to teach him.
For the price of a used Alfa you get a serious amount of track time at some legendary US tracks, some legendary used ex racers as instructors, very used racing suits, new helmets and your very own race prepped MX5 and typical American lunches (which means a diet when you get home). But wait there’s more. At Bathurst, down Conrod straight, the most you can hit, apart from another car, is a kangaroo. In America so far I’ve had near misses with three deer, a raccoon, two hunting dogs and a man with a gun. Bathurst you need to lift your game.
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