A thank you letter from Colin to his Fan Club: April 18th, 2005

For Colin's 37th Birthday (August 2004) his Fan Club got him a "One Day High Performance Driving" experience at the Fast Lane Racing School

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Below is Colin's thank you letter to his fan club.

To all of the CC FANS.

Awesome.
Outrageous.
Absolutely brilliant.

After numerous reschedules over the last 8 months, I finally took part in my wonderful birthday gift that you all presented me with last year. A day of speed and instruction from Danny McKeevers Racing School out at the Willowsprings Raceway.

And it was, truly... one hell of a day.

Started the night before when my good buddy Rob Stilson and I decided to drive up early (2 hour drive from LA) and grab a Motel to get a better start on everything the next morning. Michelle Munro met Rob at the premier of Elektra in Las Vegas and convinced him to go with me and 'document' the whole experience (which basically consists of smart ass comments and slanderous critique coming through loud and clear, while I'm alone in my car trying to stay alive.)

Anyway, we checked into the local Motel, snuck Piper into the room and soon my thoughts were drifting off into the worlds of Michael Shumaker, AJ Foyt and Jackie Stewart. I wasn't scared, but I suppose I was a little nervous. ('Scared' was seeing Rob in his cotton briefs, but I digress.)

The morning came, alarms went off, we hopped into the truck and headed for the track which was about ten minutes away.

 We were met by Danny himself. He introduced his staff and immediately both Rob and I were taken by how incredibly cool and warm the people were. (By coincidence Rob had actually met and driven with Danny way back when.) Danny was more than happy that Rob 'hang out' with the cameras, and so after a little bit of book learning and theory, all of us 'students' were allocated cars (me gettum yellow one) and we all headed off for the track.

Hard to describe the day after that. There was just so much happening from then on. I mean, your brain shuts everything else down except for the mechanics of how to stay on the road at an accelerated speed. In that half second of downshifting from 4th to 3rd coming into the second turn at 70 miles an hour, you're really not thinking, "Hmmm. What words might be best in articulating this particular experience?"

But at the end of the day, I 'can' say that I was exhausted. Eight straight hours of rpm's, adrenalin, sunshine and Rob Stilson giving me the 'you suck' signal every time I passed the race tower. It was awesome. And I was absolutely blown away by the whole experience.

Within the next few hours, both the adrenaline and sunshine had passed. It would be yet another exceptional memory provided to me by a group of people who have been so incredibly kind to me. People I barely even know. And so, the adrenaline was replaced with gratitude, humility and appreciation for such an amazing day. An amazing gift.

Thank you all again, from the bottom of my heart.
Just incredible.

Sincerely,

Colin Cunningham

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