24 - Wednesday, July 17, 1985 - North Shore News

“RACING IS a calculated risk. Your survival is
entirely dependent on how well you control and
respond to the variables, both on and off the

track,”’

Every time North Van- 7
fhe couver’s Andy Mahood By RB. Bruce Goldsworthy
ae straps himself into a For-

cars going into a tight corner
you can’t afford to be mak-
ing errors in judgement.

“If you don’t drive on the
limit, you don't win. It's like
constantly stretching an
elastic band as far as it will

es mula racing car he expects to
push himself and his ma-

: chinery to the ragged edge.
ee He goes far beyond what the
; Sunday driver would call the
limits of safety and security.
At 140 MPH in a crowd of

the success story.

PROFILE OF A RACER

Andy Mahood--at the limit

go and then releasing it just
before it snaps. If you pull
too hard and long you get
hort.”*

The challenge, and indeed
the passion, for Mahood is
pushing that jimit further
and further. He and his crew
spend all this time searching
and testing for the minute
changes that will allow that
limit to be extended.

Experience is critical to
winning and Mahood has
dominated the top level of

photo subnitied

CREW CHIEF Rick Weaver and Andy Mahood prepare far a race at Westwood. Maliood
hus proved himself one of the top racers in Canada in the last few years and Weaver is par! of

amateur road racing, For-
mula Ford, since 1980. That
year he captured the Inter-
national Conference of
Sports Car Clubs Champi-
onship against drivers from
all over the Pacific Nor-
thwest, setting a new points
record in the process. He
was the Canadian
Automobile Sports Club
B.C, Formula Ford Cham-
pion in 1981 and again in
1984. To compliment his '84
championship he was also

named ‘Formula Driver of
the Year’ at the annual
C.A.S.C. year-end awards
banquet. Canada's top rac-
ing periodical ‘‘AutoSport"*
has twice named Mahood as
one of the top ten drivers in
Canada, capable of reaching
Formula One or In-
dianapolis car status. In
1981 and 1982 he drove in
selected races in the profes-
sional Formula Atlantic
Series.

Mahood's crew chief and

veteran racing mechanic
Rick Weaver is another
reason for Mahood's suc-
cess, Weaver's strength is in
developing a car to its
potential.

“‘l can make a car easy to
drive, but with formula cars,
casy-to-drive translates as
slow. With Andy 1 have the
full time job of matching the
car's capabilities ot his. If he
didn’t want more from the

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