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Re: Driver Stress?
Maybe I'm strange, but I never took it too seriously.
What? You exclaim!
I'm not being immodest when I say that I didn't feel pressured in the slightest when I drove in 2003. I had a powerful, fast and maneouvrable robot, knew its capabilities well, and, as the most senior student on the team, didn't have any peers to be afraid of, if I screwed up. Since I was also the one who designed the drivetrain, (and had fought with it in development) I knew what could go wrong, and knew how to fix it if it did. So I went in well-informed, well-equipped, and with three members of the drive team upon whom I could count.
We did rather well, if I might say so myself--a finalist at the Canadian Regional and a win at West Michigan, which qualified us for the Nationals in Houston, that year.
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