DICING WITH GIANTS: There are track days, and then there are track days. LARRY WEBSTER checks in with the California big bays in an Aston Martin Vantage GT4

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IT'S NOT EVERY DAY - even in this gig - that you find yourself on America's greatest racetrack trailing a car you've dreamed about since second grade. But there, up ahead, cresting the hill before Laguna Seca's Corkscrew, is a Porsche 917/10. And it's no ordinary 917 (as if there is such a thing), but the actual 1972 Can-Am championship winner, the car that broke McLaren's five-year streak of dominance in the series. Driven by both Mark Donohue and George Follmer, the 1000-plus-hp wundermachine was so utterly superior that many have blamed it for the death of the Can-Am. I'm actually gaming ground on the legendary car. Somebody kick me.