New here, never actually raced, but...

Kid, you really need to push away from the keyboard and stop writing..
You will never get a race licence if you disclose your huge array of problems and that is a good thing..

And you are obviously compelled to go on endlessly about your unfortunate problems..

They don't give licences out for 800 SAT---which I have seen you bring up on Psychology Today comments arguing with everybody there--- along with your astronomical IQ..
Those things don't count.

At least you have a real reason that you "coulda been a contender".....most people simply lack the will to make the choices to give up everything and work 80hrs a week towards what is VERY LIKELY a complete dead end for 10 years.

You're 20. Face it like an adult and accept your problems are too much to deal with AND do a sport so dependant on huge sums of money----unless there's a trust fund in the background you haven't mentioned.

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

Kid, you really need to push away from the keyboard and stop writing..
You will never get a race licence if you disclose your huge array of problems and that is a good thing..

And you are obviously compelled to go on endlessly about your unfortunate problems..

They don't give licences out for 800 SAT---which I have seen you bring up on Psychology Today comments arguing with everybody there--- along with your astronomical IQ..
Those things don't count.

At least you have a real reason that you "coulda been a contender".....most people simply lack the will to make the choices to give up everything and work 80hrs a week towards what is VERY LIKELY a complete dead end for 10 years.

You're 20. Face it like an adult and accept your problems are too much to deal with AND do a sport so dependant on huge sums of money----unless there's a trust fund in the background you haven't mentioned.

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The last time I posted on psychologytoday.com, it was March 16 2011, and I had just come out of being ridiculously manic. I was making no sense, and I know that now. I decided to not go back for a reason.

I'm not saying they count in racing. I'm saying that they're things that I'm proud of, things I brought up as a push back against what I perceived to be a personal attack on myself, my intelligence included. In the moment, they seemed like valid things to bring into the conversation. Perhaps I should have PM'd the people who I felt were attacking me.

Some of the most successful people out there are more psychologically messed up than I am. The difference is only in what the parents would allow them to pursue when they were little.

I will admit, though, that I'm a complainer by nature. Don't know why. However, you seem more inclined than I to go on about my problems.

Also, I would not be dangerous on the track; I would follow all rules and regulations, as well as general etiquette, be it written or not.

I will, however, apologize to you if I argued with you on Psychology Today. Hell, I'll apologize that you even had to see those abominations of conversations I had there.

Very interesting dynamics in this thread:

Is he? Isn't he? Oh yes he is! Oh no he isn't!

Very articulate and complex and intriguing . . . specially for us that have never experienced the desire to make a living out of speed but that have experienced the thrill of almost being on two (of the four wheels appended to the vehicle) whilst taking a curve that looks oh so appetizing as we grabbed the steering wheel as if it were probably the last thing that we were ever going to do in our lives but was so well worth it.

Any way . . . . very interesting read.

Thanks.

:)

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Originally Posted by MrJan

Not read all the thread but you sound like a dick, and a dangerous one at that. Stop driving like a twat on the road and go to some sprints (I think the yanks call them autocross). If the US regs are anything like here in the UK then you can use pretty much any car and it'll show you how quick you really are up against other people (I guarantee that you are actually quite slow, driving quick on the track is completely different to going quick on the road). I did a hillclimb last week and there were single seat (F1 type) racers, saloon cars, Imprezas & Evos, spaceframe racers (Westfields and Caterham 7 type things, some with car engines, others with bike engines), a bloke in a FIAT 500 Arbarth and even a guy in a VW Lupo TDi. If you can't afford a car (one guy at a sprint I did had a £500 Kia Pride) then motorsport is the wrong hobby.

Interesting that you say you see the roads differently to everyone else and use different lines, what makes you think that you've tapped into a secret line different from the one that thousands of racing drivers have agreed on for decades?

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Yes, autocross is also a viable option as well as hillclimbing.

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Yes, autocross is also a viable option as well as hillclimbing.

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Somehow I don't think the kid is going to get his excitement fix he needs driving around some little orange cones in a parking lot for 40 seconds in first and second gear driving maybe 60 km/hr...

And even there there are costs for entry and tires.......

At least suspension is easy for "auto-cross"---just fit springs 2 or 3 times stiffer than used on tarmac circuit racing---so stiff there is no need for dampers since the springs never move.
Or remove the springs altogether and ride on the bumpstops.

Hard to say if hillclimbs are an option since much of America is as flat as a table for thousands of miles....

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Somehow I don't think the kid is going to get his excitement fix he needs driving around some little orange cones in a parking lot for 40 seconds in first and second gear driving maybe 60 km/hr...

And even there there are costs for entry and tires.......

At least suspension is easy for "auto-cross"---just fit springs 2 or 3 times stiffer than used on tarmac circuit racing---so stiff there is no need for dampers since the springs never move.
Or remove the springs altogether and ride on the bumpstops.

Hard to say if hillclimbs are an option since much of America is as flat as a table for thousands of miles....

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We're talking about cheap motorsport so that's going to have to be the option. Anything more and you're talking thousands of dollars. Also I'm not sure what a proper autocross in the US is like but sprints here in the UK are significantly quicker than 60km/h, at a hillclimb I did the other week the single seat racers were hitting 130mph on the short straight, that's a buzz far in excess of anything on the road. It's also not about top speed, if you have a car on the very edge then it's exciting even if you're only doing 30mph.

Is this guy as genuine as you all believe ?From the read,which is only a small amount of what has been written,his writing is quite good for a 20 year old,and to me ,it all sounds like some one is having a laugh here !And I feel it is him having a laugh at you !

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Is this guy as genuine as you all believe ?From the read,which is only a small amount of what has been written,his writing is quite good for a 20 year old,and to me ,it all sounds like some one is having a laugh here !And I feel it is him having a laugh at you !

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Quite good for a 20 year old? Is anyone under the age of 30 an idiot? **** me, at the age of 20 I had to write a 12,000 dissertation, you don't just crap out that many words without a few of them making sense.

Indeed, don't judge all 20 year olds by the average 20 year olds standards ;)

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Is this guy as genuine as you all believe ?From the read,which is only a small amount of what has been written,his writing is quite good for a 20 year old,and to me ,it all sounds like some one is having a laugh here !And I feel it is him having a laugh at you !

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Yes, the style reminds me of 'Wades' posts, I was expecting the mods to use the tools they have at their disposal but they are either also having a laugh by keeping stum or he is actually genuine.. either way I dont mind, it has been an amusing and interesting thread. :)


Pkeegs- As Mr Jan Yeo suggests, you should try and get some experience with a shifter, there is just so much more you can do with the cornering balance and braking with a shifter/clutch, ie, if you are good with smooth downshifting (heel/toe) you can reduce stopping distances by a large percentage. It also provides more engine braking which allows you to alter mid corner balance a lot more than you could with most autos.