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westwest888 · December 8, 2019, 6:14pm

Everyone at the track is an asshole. Me too. If I know the line better than you I act like a complete terrorist. But I go to the track with my group of assholes and they are known quantities to me. With the motorsports country club, they’re allowed to use the track no matter which group has rented it. So I have to share the track with new assholes which raises my ire. Particularly when they run a full blown IMSA prototype. That car would probably run the 'ring in 6 minutes flat.

JimmyBones · December 8, 2019, 6:14pm

westwest888:

Well, it’s a motorsports country club that costs $50,000 to join and then $5,000 a year. Most of the members fly their airplanes to it because it’s in the middle of nowhere. I called that one particular guy an asshole because an IMSA prototype motor probably needs to be rebuilt after 100 hours at a cost of $50,000+. Then he’s putting around the track slower than a few well driven R8.

So yeah, running a car that costs over $2000 an hour to operate when you don’t know how to drive it makes you an asshole. Start with a Miata and an instructor, or whatever.

I’m not worried about where I’m going to make that type of money. And when I have it, I won’t buy a car faster than I know how to drive. Which is why I’ll track a Boxster even though I can afford a GT3. I don’t have the stones to drive the GT3 at 9/10 with PSM switched off. It’s too fucking fast.

With regards to money, when I’m in over my head with an Audi repair I pay a shop top dollar to fix it for me. At times I’ve suggested some people do the same. I’ve seen too many assholes drop a radiator and coolant on track because they’re amateur mechanics. It’s extremely dangerous and causes other cars to crash when they go from a coefficient of friction of 1.4 to black ice.

You are limiting yourself quite a bit.

If someone gives me their expressed permission/instructions to drive their car hard then I am going to do it and if I break it or crash the car then so be it but I will try to fix or replace it afterwards. Obviously I don’t want that to happen but if it does then oh well. Same goes for if they ask me to drive their car super slowly and defensively. For example, I have crashed a old fox body mustang into two walls, then rolled it three times, and realized that I was on fire when after I was aware that the world wasn’t spinning. The owner got a new chassis, we swapped everything possible, replaced everything that had to be, and the car was back at the dragstrip in just over two weeks.

Life is too damn short to not enjoy it man!

westwest888 · December 8, 2019, 6:14pm

JimmyBones:

westwest888:

Well, it’s a motorsports country club that costs $50,000 to join and then $5,000 a year. Most of the members fly their airplanes to it because it’s in the middle of nowhere. I called that one particular guy an asshole because an IMSA prototype motor probably needs to be rebuilt after 100 hours at a cost of $50,000+. Then he’s putting around the track slower than a few well driven R8.

So yeah, running a car that costs over $2000 an hour to operate when you don’t know how to drive it makes you an asshole. Start with a Miata and an instructor, or whatever.

I’m not worried about where I’m going to make that type of money. And when I have it, I won’t buy a car faster than I know how to drive. Which is why I’ll track a Boxster even though I can afford a GT3. I don’t have the stones to drive the GT3 at 9/10 with PSM switched off. It’s too fucking fast.

With regards to money, when I’m in over my head with an Audi repair I pay a shop top dollar to fix it for me. At times I’ve suggested some people do the same. I’ve seen too many assholes drop a radiator and coolant on track because they’re amateur mechanics. It’s extremely dangerous and causes other cars to crash when they go from a coefficient of friction of 1.4 to black ice.

You are limiting yourself quite a bit.

If someone gives me their expressed permission/instructions to drive their car hard then I am going to do it and if I break it or crash the car then so be it but I will try to fix or replace it afterwards. Obviously I don’t want that to happen but if it does then oh well. Same goes for if they ask me to drive their car super slowly and defensively. For example, I have crashed a old fox body mustang into two walls, then rolled it three times, and realized that I was on fire when after I was aware that the world wasn’t spinning. The owner got a new chassis, we swapped everything possible, replaced everything that had to be, and the car was back at the dragstrip in just over two weeks.

Life is too damn short to not enjoy it man!

https://youtu.be/QSFL6znlxb4

JimmyBones · December 8, 2019, 6:14pm

That was a pretty good little video. I never saw that movie but now I may have to.

westwest888 · December 8, 2019, 6:14pm

I actually do wear a sparco fire suit to the track and some other nomex. I’ve got a Stilo composite helmet, a HANS 3 device in fiberglass, the 6 point belt, a carbon kevlar seat, rollbar welded to the frame with reinforcement plates where it joins the chassis in 4 places. I figure if you do this shit for decades, eventually you’re going to wreck. If this shit means I don’t need to stay overnight in a hospital, it was all worth it.

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