Monday, April 19, 2010

What makes driving a pleasure?

As per the title, what to you makes driving at the limit (your limit) a pleasure?

Is it the speed, the focus needed, the intimate partnership with the machine you are controlling, the will to improve yourself, the all-consuming trance like state that racing wheel to wheel puts you in?

Could it be something else???

For me, dancing with the car and trying to squeeze every last bit of speed out of the car is what draws me to this sport. The feeling the car gives you is also an attraction, as are the positive g-forces which create a high in you. Racing wheel-to-wheel gives me the sense of being on a journey, to conquer who may lie in front of me on the road, and to take what I can get in the most primitive, animalistic way.

1 comment:

  1. Word. Even in indoor karting, closing down on someone little by little, lap after lap is a sensation of a hunt that cannot be forgotten. Once you've swallowed a bite of that there will be this hunger.

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