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I'll see you on the other side. There's a stage called Wildcat.

It's like 27 miles of super tight and twisty just back and forth back and

and the stage is so long you're like I swear we've been here already.

I remember this little canyon.

That's Krista Skukas. She's a rally co-driver talking about her favorite

race course or stage. It's near Olympia, Washington,

and they don't call it Wildcat because it's tame.

You're in rainforest territory in Washington out that way and every corner you're like do I have grip oh no don't have grip. Oh, oh, oh, wait I had way more grip. I could have gone so much faster on that

the

predates the 20th century. The courses range from logging roads

from logging roads to twisting gravel paths.

As a co-driver or navigator, Krista isn't actually driving the car.

She's sitting beside the driver, holding a notebook of cryptic symbols.

You have a left or a right, and you have degrees of corners.

One is the sharpest corner.

Six-plus is mostly a straight line until you're driving it at 120 miles an hour.

But calling out these codes on race days is far from her only job. You are not racing head to head. It is for fastest time overall. Cars are one to two minutes

spaced apart. So you're managing that while navigating out in the

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