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	June 19, 2001
	Morning Session: Skid pad, braking, classroom
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Matthew attended the 1-day Skip Barber Driving School program held at the Laguna Seca race
track, near Monterey, CA. The day started at 8 am with check-in; at 8:30 am the morning
session began. The students were divided into 3 teams: A, B, and C. Matthew was on Team A.
Team A went first to the Skid Pad, where they drove a Dodge truck over water-slicked pavement
around a cone-defined loop. They learned how to perform CPR to control a skid: Correct, Pause, Recover.
The next exercise was on braking: straight and while in a turn. After this, they went to the classroom
for a lecture on the physics of the forces they just experienced on the track. The morning session
ended around 11:30. Lunch lasted until noon.

Side note: All the vehicles except for one replacement Neon had manual transmissions. Robert taught
Matthew how to drive a stick shift. Matthew had only been out 5 or 6 times, but he had no trouble
driving the manual shift cars at Skip Barber's.

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On the drive into Laguna Seca	Skip Barber School	In the classroom	One of the two trucks used (for rear-wheel drive)	The Neons (for front-wheel drive)
	They also run a Racing School	The garage	Getting their starting instructions
On the Skid pad		Matthew's first time driving the truck.		High speed approach to turn; starting to skid
Turn #2 with different instructor	CPR: Correct, Pause, Recover		Matthew in Neon, about to start out for braking exercise track	This was Matthew's first solo with a manual transmission.
Five Neons on the Braking track; we were too far to see much of this exercise	Taking a break in the shade.