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Thursday, July 23,1992
Page 3
A&M Sports Car Club gives
Aggies chance to burn rubber
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
Stacy Pendergrass from Austin gives his car a fi- Sports Car Club look on. Pendergrass built his
nal checkover before a day of driving at the Texas car, a replica of an ERA 427, from a kit, which can
World Speedway, while members of the TAMU go from 0 to 100 and back to 0 in 12.5 seconds.
By Kim McGuire
The Battalion
Racing a car is like being on
stage, LeAne Culp said. You pull
up up to the line, rev your motor
and wait for the flag. You feel ner
vous, yet at the same time excited.
Everyone watching you is a
stranger. When the flag drops, ev
erything disappears except the
course in front of you.
Culp is just one of 60 members
in the A&M Sports Car Club, a
group of sports car enthusiasts
|who share a common interest in
sports cars and racing. Like some
| of the other members, Culp says
I she gets a "high" from racing.
"I get a sense of satisfaction
from racing," Culp said. "It's le
gal and it's fun and I get any kind
of urge to speed out of my sys
tem."
Larry Brown, the former advis
er of the club, said the organiza
tion has been around since 1967.
Ever since, the club has been meet
ing and racing throughout the
year.
"We usually meet out at the
Riverside annex," Brown said. "It
used to be an old airport.
"We set up cones on the run
aways and use that as our au
tocross set up," he said.
Brown said that in the au
tocross the drivers race their cars a
path marked with cones for about
six tenths of a mile, traveling at
moderate speeds of 50 to 60 miles
per hour.
"About the only real risk you
run is damage to your tires,"
Brown said. "It's a pretty safe
deal."
Gary Hood who has been a
member of the A&M Sports Car
Club since 1985 said however that
he has been to autocrosses where
the cars raced at much higher
speeds.
"Some of the cars go over 100
miles per hour," Hood said. "At a
lapping session at Texas World
Speedway last weekend, the
straight-a-ways they were running
about 75 miles per hour."
Besides the autocrosses, the
club participates in rallies. Brown
said. In rallies the drivers are giv
en instructions that direct them
from one given point to another.
At points unknown to the driver,
their time is taken and then deter
mined at the end to decide the
winner.
"What's neat about the rallies
is no one knows where the point is
or where they're going," Brown
said. "You get points added for
the time that your over so obvi
ously you want to get as close to
zero as possible."
Brown said that the club will
be busy in the fall with future
meets.
"The summer is kind of slow
because most of the members are
gone," Brown said. "We've gotten
together for autocrosses in Austin
and Houston but that's about it.
"We have a lot of-stuff planned
for the fall though," he said.
"Eventually we want to set up an
autocross in Zachary parking lot
and make it into a festival kind of
like Aquafest."
Culp said she thought that the
biggest event the club participates
in is the Aggiecross at Texas
World Speedway September 26-
27.
"We have about one hundred
to one hundred and fifty people
that come from all over for that
weekend," Culp said.
Culp said that since she has
joined the club three years ago she
has learned to appreciate cars.
"You really learn a lot about
cars," Culp said. "If you find
yourself in a trouble situation in
just in normal traffic you know
how your car is going to react.
"At least you learn how to
make quick decisions," she said.
Hood agreed with Culp that
racing has improved his driving
skills.
"I've avoided a lot of major car
accidents," Hood said. "When
you race you learn how to make
evasive maneuvers."
Brown said that the club will
get back into full swing in the fall.
He said anyone with an enthusi
asm for racing can join.
"A lot of the people in the club
don't even have car," Brown said.
"Some of the people are in it
for the excitement, others for the
cars themselves and others for the
friendships.
"And then others are in it be
cause we throw pretty good par
ties."
Spielberg spins tale of fantasy
Williams, Hoffman journey to never-never land
By Kim McGuire
The Battalion
"Hook"
Starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia
Roberts and Bob Hoskins
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Rated PG
"There's only one rule in this house," Wendy
Darling tells Peter Pan. "No growing up.
"Ever."
But in "Hook" Steven Spielberg's remake of the
classic fairy tale, growing up is exactly what Peter
Pan does.
"Hook" picks up where the fairy tale left off. Pe
ter Pan grew up, forgot who he was, married Wendy
Darling's granddaughter and became a corporate
lawyer in the United States.
The story begins as Peter, his wife and their two
children travel to London to visit Wendy (now an el
derly woman). The adventure begins when Captain
Hook, played to the hilt by Dustin Hoffman, kid
naps Peter's children and takes them to never-never
land. In order to save them, he must turn back into
the mythical boy he was.
For a director to make Peter Pan believable
seems an almost impossibledask. However, by cast
ing Robin Williams as Peter, Spielberg comes pretty
close to pulling it off. Williams is superb as the cold
and calloused Peter Banning and later as the eternal
child Peter Pan. Williams doesn't do the "off the
wall" role like in the "The Fisher King" and "Good
Morning Vietnam." Instead, does the "straight
man" and does it quite well.
Dustin Hoffman is also spectacular as the menac
ing pirate Hook. Hoffman has perhaps the best lines
in the movie and delivers them with a surprising
comedic flair.
Other notable performances are Maggie Smith as
Wendy Darling and Bob Hoskins as Smee, Hook's
flunkie.
The only real disappointment in "Hook" is Julia
Roberts as Tinkerbell. As an actress, she seems
forceful and stiff. She makes the viewers strain to
believe she's a three inch fairy, floating around scat
tering fairy dust.
•In all, however, "Hook" is a delightful fantasy
film that is fun to watch. Never-never land is a cine-
matographical spectacular that is a wonder to be
hold. The set is about as close as reality as to how
children imagine the magical place to be. Also,
"Hook" addresses the importance of the family
which is refreshing to see in movies.
"Hook" doesn't add anything new to the age old
classic, nor does it take anything way. It does, how
ever, make you want to never grow up.
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