Blasts From the Past: A Speedy Stroll Down Memory Lane

At Best Driver's Car, A Blink or Two Can Tell an Eye-Opening Story
One of my favorite parts of Best Driver's Car—apart from driving the dizzying array of sexy sheetmetal up and down Highway 198, arguing with Jonny Lieberman about whether the Caddy CTS-V is superior to the Bentley GT3-R (it is), and sipping Brian Vance's freshly brewed coffee at 6 a.m. in a fogged-in garage at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca—is standing next to pit wall, iPhone stopwatch in hand, timing each contender as it whizzes by at triple-digit clips down the front straight. Over the years, I've gotten so adept—my fingertip in near harmony with the data gleaned from Kim Reynolds' VBox GPS machine—that Scott Evans has nicknamed my iPhone RonBox. Within moments of my tapping the screen and reading aloud the time, my fellow editors race to their smartphones to find comparable times from previous years' contenders. Oohs and aahs ensue over the separation of a couple tenths or a few hundredths—essentially blinks of an eye. But what an eye-opening story a blink or two can tell.

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