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mike_b · 08-16-2021, 09:04 PM

I am not a country music fan, but Garth has a great song called "Rodeo" that is applicable to many things in life

"And a broken home and some broken bones
Is all he'll have to show
For all the years that he spent chasin'
This dream they call rodeo"

Yeah, if you chase it hard enough you will end up with some scars. Some visible. Some not. I had a decently built up 2005 STi that I tracked pretty frequently in my early to mid 20s. I also had an 08 STi and 12 GT-R that I tracked. Unless you are completely financially independent or getting paid to drive for a living this hobby doesn't lead anywhere good and you really need to impose your own constraints on it. At some point you will realize you are "chasing the sun" and literally trading your life and your financial future to LARP as a "race car driver".

Edit: And before somebody comes in and says "you can have fun without wrecking your life" I will just say that I agree it is possible, but frequently does not happen that way. If you do it long enough you will know guys that total a car that they still have payments on. Or roll a car and nearly die. Or wreck their car, get divorced, go bankrupt and never are heard from again. I'm not saying that this shit 100% happens to everybody, but it is pretty common if you stick around the scene for a while. You don't want to be one of these guys pulling your wadded up car out to the main road so you can call your insurance company and tell them some story about how you "swerved to miss a deer". Everybody thinks they will know when to call it quits, but when you have 50k or more into a 25k car and the engine pops it will be VERY hard to stop yourself from continuing down that road. After all, you're already in this deep, what's another 5 or 10k to get back up and running?

08-16-2021, 09:04 PM	#27
mike_b Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Drives: 18 BRZ Location: Cincinnati Posts: 74 Thanks: 21 Thanked 33 Times in 16 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I am not a country music fan, but Garth has a great song called "Rodeo" that is applicable to many things in life "And a broken home and some broken bones Is all he'll have to show For all the years that he spent chasin' This dream they call rodeo" Yeah, if you chase it hard enough you will end up with some scars. Some visible. Some not. I had a decently built up 2005 STi that I tracked pretty frequently in my early to mid 20s. I also had an 08 STi and 12 GT-R that I tracked. Unless you are completely financially independent or getting paid to drive for a living this hobby doesn't lead anywhere good and you really need to impose your own constraints on it. At some point you will realize you are "chasing the sun" and literally trading your life and your financial future to LARP as a "race car driver". Edit: And before somebody comes in and says "you can have fun without wrecking your life" I will just say that I agree it is possible, but frequently does not happen that way. If you do it long enough you will know guys that total a car that they still have payments on. Or roll a car and nearly die. Or wreck their car, get divorced, go bankrupt and never are heard from again. I'm not saying that this shit 100% happens to everybody, but it is pretty common if you stick around the scene for a while. You don't want to be one of these guys pulling your wadded up car out to the main road so you can call your insurance company and tell them some story about how you "swerved to miss a deer". Everybody thinks they will know when to call it quits, but when you have 50k or more into a 25k car and the engine pops it will be VERY hard to stop yourself from continuing down that road. After all, you're already in this deep, what's another 5 or 10k to get back up and running? Last edited by mike_b; 08-16-2021 at 09:21 PM.