<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="role_body" bottommargin="7" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; "><blockquote id="0"><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">Nextly, as far as I know, nobody has gone from vintage to F1. Are we getting too serioius about winning? Just a thought. </div></blockquote></blockquote></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Geez, so my planned career path is probably a bust?</div><div><br></div><div>I know it doesn't make sense, but when you get behind a wheel you race. End of story. I honestly never have really understood this eight tenths stuff. Sure, we don't jam our cars into a chicane five across and get all chesty, and we back off rather than make that low-percentage pass that would be just part of the game even in your basic SCCA regional race, but we still all push it, and try to pick up a little more mid corner speed in that long sweeper, event though the car is bucking a little and the back end is stepping out. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm KNOW there's some people out there that don't think of winning, they think about their car's history, and they just enjoy being on the track. I know because I usually lap them, sometimes several times. It's not a parade. I don't drive it that way, and neither do the vast majority of the people I know. </div><div><br></div></body></html>