Brian Evans wrote:
>
> Actually, if someone thinks their not racing when they're on the track,
> then what are they doing? The difference between "showing", "touring",
> "lapping" and racing is a huge piece of attitude that says I'm trying as
> hard as I can to go as fast as I can, and to beat you to the finish line.
>
> If you're not racing, then you make the track a more dangerous place. For
> me. And I don't accept that. So I hope that everyone who thinks that in
> Vintage racing we just "show' the cars stays the hell off of the race track
> when I'm on it, because I'm racing.
>
> Just because I race "Corinthian" doesn't mean I won't try to out brake
> you, steal your line, draft you up the back straight and take the outside
> line in the corner to get the inside line at the next, and a whole host of
> things that will cause an accident if you think we're touring, or lapping ,
> or showing. If only because I scare the poop out of you when I take my
> share of the track, or blow by you 30 MPH faster than you're going and you
> haven't been watching your mirrors. Or if you blindly take the "racing
> line" when I got the apex before you even started to turn in.
>
> Nothing pisses me off more than people - on the track or announcers - who
> say or think that we're not racing.
>
> Brian
Well said - Brian for President?
Derek
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