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Cars would sometimes do end over ends in mid-air, one, two and one-time we even saw a car do three end over ends, by bouncing off its front and rear. This was the worst and the driver's seat belts broke, so that the driver was in a comma for 6 weeks. He was never the same again becoming something of a simpleton.
But we came to watch that wheel. Just hitting the throttle, the torque and twist of the engine would cause the chassis to flex and by some secret set-up of suspension, the wheel to lift. Around the track, coming down the straight faster and faster out of the curver the wheel would rise high, higher and higher still, until it was near two feet off the ground. Letting off coming into the corner, the cars would crack and backfire and flames would shoot from the pipes like fire dragons, and the wheel would come down.
The Mouse goes into the controlled slide, as did all the cars on the slick mud track. That was part of the beauty of the racing --- watching the controlled sideways slides with the front wheels turned in the opposite direction, and the control of the throttle controlling the slide --- too much and spin out, too little and hit the wall. The slide was controlled by feathering the gas, hitting the throttle which straightened the car and keeping it from spinning out.
You could hear his throttle control by the sound of the engine whoom, whoomm ! But with the Mouse you could also see it, with the rise and fall of the wheel.
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