Test Driving is NOT Race Driving: Tales of the Testing Director
Understanding Vehicle Testing: From Slaloms to Figure-Eights I’ve told this story before, but it effectively illustrates the point I want to make. A couple of decades ago, I was at Riverside Raceway for an instrumented test of a Porsche 917 owned by Otis Chandler, the then publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Since a skidpad…