Can an amateur in an Evo X take on Infineon Raceway?
Wayne Cunningham at CNet’s Car Tech Blog poses this loaded question and takes us for a spin in a Mitsubishi Evo X MR at the Jim Russell Lancer Evolution Experience:
It takes a pro driver to send a car into a drift or tackle a highly technical racetrack like Infineon. Or does it?
I spent a Friday attending the Jim Russell Lancer Evolution Experience with a diverse group of amateurs. There was the father and son team from Arizona taking their annual outing. There was the businessman from Peru ditching a day of meetings. One man had already taken the course once, but had to go back for more, and one couple seemed to look at it as the perfect romantic outing.
The car–the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X–plays a big part in this day of high-speed instruction. Possibly no other car would let a group of people with mostly no previous track experience accomplish the Jim Russell program. Of course, the instructors, all being active race car drivers, contribute more than a little, too.
