Road Racing is like Crack Options

[awd4kicks]

...and if you want to be king shit for the day, I can always hook you up with the traqmate for a session and see if you can spanky my laptimes.

I would love to take you up on that Horn Swallower. J/K
Seriously, I like you Horns, but don't be surprised if I creep up on your lap times after an event or two.

No I wasn't referring to you about walking the talk, but I was refering to your personal opinion that people that have not been to a road corse are completely clueless about real driving. Maybe I've read too much into it, but to me driving levels are just that. Levels of a whole ability. Some people have it and some don't. Have you ever ridden with spy on the street? Sure it may be a few seconds of bliss here and there, but its as ragged edge as I would go on any state maintained (read crapy) road. On the way to the CICE net gathering I folowed RoadRacerWhite around an on/off ramp at rediculous speeds. The Talon had the rear end angled out a bit just try to keep pace with the speed that his trained skill allowed him to carry. Again, not a lot of time, but not all together clueless either.

I have wanted to road race all of my life, but for some reason I haven't made that a priority. When I began to auto-cross the old timers told me not to worry with road racing because auto-cross is much more technically challenging. I gather that they are right, but that there is some rift, weather amusing or not, between the road racers and auto-crossers. In any case I love all styles/levels of driving as long as it is challenging.