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Old 04-17-2016, 09:13 PM   #3
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I think that's a natural reaction to a traumatizing experience. I used to drive my MR2 pretty aggressively, until some cop gave me a ticket when I gave it some gas while making a right turn from a stop and the wheels slipped -_- To this day I shudder and tense up when I see a cop car, and am terrified of the sound of tires squealing.

Kind of analogously, I went skiing a lot the past season and after a bad wrist sprain I got a lot more afraid and it became a lot less fun. If you get hurt or have a scary experience, you become a lot more careful.

That said, I went to an autocross in November for the first time, and pushing the car to the max for a day kind of got me enjoying driving a lot more than I did before.
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