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Originally Posted by orthojoe
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Exactly. You hit it on the nose. Everything. 
To be totally honest, this statement here really set the tone as well as preconceived notions about you that were further solidified by subsequent posts.
There you have it. A non d-bag telling you the same thing. Still think it's bull? If so, nobody can help you.
Some people just don't have the patience or the will power to teach people that refuse to listen and are tired of seeing people on the track like that. I've said nothing about my 'credentials' and could care less about reciting them to you because I have nothing to prove. You asked for advice. Would you prefer to get advice from people that know less than you?  |
Okay, maybe I need to explain why I think it's BS. Specially for me. We spend all that time and effort prepping our cars, reading books, articles, watching video, visualizing in our heads all for the desire to go, you guessed it...., fast. Finally one day we make it happen. Our chance to go fast in our car comes. That day we wake our asses up 4-5am in the morning, or sometimes even lose sleep the day prior, drive our asses down to the dessert, anticipating our time on a race track. We wanna go fast, period. As fast as we can. That is the whole point of even going through all that to get our asses there. To know whether or not we are going fast, or at very least faster than last time, we're going to have to check our lap times. So... how can any of us not worry about lap times? Impossible. Even when people say "Lap times doesnt matter."
Maybe "worry" is not the right word, but it matters. Matters a whole lot. It matter enough that you put all that time, money and effort to get to the track.
I'm not sure how long ago you were a newb, or whether if you did all the right things to be relatively fast from the get go, always improving, but... Point is, it matters a lot regardless your skill level if you have any sort of passion for this stuff.