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"  After two days of preliminaries, the 2006 Dunlop Targa New Zealand is underway. I&amp;#039;m sharing navigator duties for Steve Millen in his GT with his son, Kyle, and I drew the first day.   I wish you could have all been along for the ride.   What does a navigator do? Keeping the driver from getting lost is the obvious task, but it is also the easiest. The route books are well defined, breaking the route down to as little as 100 meters with pictograms pointing your way from place to place.   We have a handy-dandy digital odometer that I can quickly reset with a foot pedal, so it&amp;#039;s relatively simple to know when to have the driver turn left or right or keep going straight. This is no big deal on the touring stages, which guide us from one high-speed special stage to the next, speed limits strictly enforced.   The challenge is on those lickity-split special stages. Steve is already brilliant as a driver--one of the world&amp;#039;s great car control experts--and I&amp;#039;m there to (hopefully) make things easier. The route book doesn&amp;#039;t define every corner, but does warn of particularly dangerous turns, rating the really tough ones with exclamation points.   As we approach such a tricky place, I call it out about a half-kilometer ahead and again at the corner...something like &amp;quot;90 degree right turn over narrow bridge, gravel on right side&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;hard left turn, tightens deceptively, drop off on my side.&amp;quot; And then I cinch up my shoulder belts again...   Steve does the hard part, guiding the 600-plus horsepower Ford GT along the narrow roads, great billows of flame belching from the exhaust on the big shifts. He is easily the crowd favorite.   Tomorrow Kyle takes the right seat of the car and I get to be the observer...so I&amp;#039;ll fill you in on some of the cars on the rally and the beautiful New Zealand countryside. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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