Yeah, but you also have to understand that I've been in racing long enough to win my share and then some. The most fun race I've ever been in I lost. It sounds strange, but it's true. I was on top of my driving, and the guy I was tied in points with was on top of his, and we went out and literally swapped the lead just about every lap. We were wheel to wheel, down and dirty road-course racing, and nothing could have been better. His tires started fading and I passed him in the corner we'd been swapping at all day, he cut course and took both of us out. At that point I'd never won a race, he robbed me of my first victory [and consequently the track championship that year it turns out], and emotions ran hot as we rolled through the checkers as the backmarkers, but looking back on that race, I'd never had to work so hard on my setup to get that good, I was finally close enough to worry him, and it was a true driver's duel, so even though he caused me to lose, I won.

I've never really had that feeling since. I've learned how to do race setups in my sleep, but when I'm driving and the setup is perfect, it really does me no good if I just go out and outrun everyone by a full lap. I'm a wheel-to-wheel driver, and I believe I always will be, autocross is fun, but it's not quite the same thrill as looking over at the other driver at the apex wheel to wheel wondering who is going to keep their handling better and come out in the lead. The last real season I ran, my real two choices as I saw them were to change my setup to slow myself down, or to outrun everyone so bad that I would get a lot of comments on my driving, I did a little of both...

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