Strangers in the Night
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 10
Strangers in the Night: 10.
Before the reader gets up in arms, a discussion between the military and David had determined that his Earth was about 70 years behind in weapons development and there was nothing David could tell them in the way of improvements.
I will admit it was a simplified junior class Rally. The juniors ran a set of stages before the pros ran them. There was a method to the madness, though. The juniors cleaned the loose gravel off the roads.
The first stage wasn't really fair because it was in our home fields and woodlots.
Rikiina won.
Of course she did; she had been driving my old rear wheel drive Volvo 122 Amazon all over the home trails and roads. Where the pros ran the stages in sets of one, two or three stages a day, the juniors ran 8 stages on Saturday including one night loop.
The pros ran times of 10 or 12 minutes. The juniors ran the same stages in 20 ... or 30.
The pros had times within seconds of each other. The juniors were within minutes. Except Rikiina; Riki's times driving the Subaru on all the stages were within 30 seconds of the pros ... except for the first stage. The pros ran times 30 seconds slower. She was instantly offered a car by Team Audi ... fifteen years old and a German team offered her one hundred thousand dollars a year to drive one of their Audi Quattros.
She turned them down.
"I like the Subaru ... its all time four wheel drive, and 300 horsepower is something I can drive while I think about what's ahead. That monster B car of yours is too fast for safety. I'm fifteen years old ... I'd like to make that 20."
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