10-02-2006, 02:49 PM
Interesting. I think 30 DE weekends in perhaps the critical piece in all that.
I've been racing for 5 years now but I'd be hard pressed to say I even did 10 weekends before getting my provisional. I moved up quick because I was able to learn from my mistakes but in hindsight, I've learned some bad habits that have become very hard to break. These habits have resulted in negative consequences when I try to drive 10/10, so I rarely end up doing so. I believe this is what's keeping me in 4th place and why I have yet to win a Cup race in 67 starts. :-( The closest I've come is when I led for 6.5 of 8 laps at VIR North this year but ultimately my lack of physical conditioning allowed a superior driver to finallu overtake me in the end. That's part of my motivation for my most recent lifestyle change (that I hope sticks).
At this point I'm just plain stuck where I'm at. I've seriously considered taking next year off to do DEs, do some bike track days or train to volunteer as an EMT... all things I've been saying I really wanna do. Sadly, I'll probably end up racing and finish in the exact same spot with the exact same problem.
I've been racing for 5 years now but I'd be hard pressed to say I even did 10 weekends before getting my provisional. I moved up quick because I was able to learn from my mistakes but in hindsight, I've learned some bad habits that have become very hard to break. These habits have resulted in negative consequences when I try to drive 10/10, so I rarely end up doing so. I believe this is what's keeping me in 4th place and why I have yet to win a Cup race in 67 starts. :-( The closest I've come is when I led for 6.5 of 8 laps at VIR North this year but ultimately my lack of physical conditioning allowed a superior driver to finallu overtake me in the end. That's part of my motivation for my most recent lifestyle change (that I hope sticks).
At this point I'm just plain stuck where I'm at. I've seriously considered taking next year off to do DEs, do some bike track days or train to volunteer as an EMT... all things I've been saying I really wanna do. Sadly, I'll probably end up racing and finish in the exact same spot with the exact same problem.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth