Sh*t Your Pants Behind The Wheel?

[Goodspeed]

I think my scariest moment behind the wheel was when I was almost hit by what I believe to be a drunk driver. I was in my old Supra coming back to Hburg from a track weekend at VIR, and I remember it was raining heavily. I was on the highway, in the right lane, when a red Ford Ranger literally came flying off of the highway on-ramp - he was probably going 80mph+ and basically cut the merge section by simply jumping the grass gulley between his lane and the highway, and proceeded to slam onto the road nearly on top of me before swerving all over the place. I saw him in my peripheral vision as he was about to make this jump to occupy the space I was traveling in, and was like "he's not going t---" before slamming on my brakes and swerving out of the way. I very nearly lost control as it wasn't hard to get that car way out of shape, especially in the rain.

He took off once he got straightened out and I ended up chasing him for a few miles (probably a dumb idea given I had to well exceed the speed limit in the rain to catch him). I never called in his plates but I probably should have - I did give him the one-finger salute however. There may be some other MM'ers who saw this as I think we were rolling together but I can't quite remember.

Another puckering moment occured in the Miata, on Beulah Rd in Vienna when I was making my way to the toll road. I came around a downhill left hander at about 40mph only to come upon a deer wildly scrambling to get up the embankment to cross the road in front of me. There was a car coming the other way at the same speed in the other lane, and sure enough the deer sprinted across both of us as we closed the gap between us - neither of us hit it. I slammed on the brakes for a millisecond it seemed, and I'm sure the other driver did too, but we both probably grazed the last micrometers of its hair with our bumpers before carrying on with our drives.