cyrnel

Driving on the street, even street racing at triple digits, provides no sense of what's required for a couple hours of full tilt competition against qualified opponents. Yes, even ovals are tough. The challenges change from road courses, but it's exhausting, requires precision, and is entirely unforgiving. That wall looks much different up close at speed.

Endurance, baja, and rally are a step beyond. The combination of physical and mental endurance for extended durations is unique, and what's required of any of the front-runners to have a career. The car is as important, but neither can show more than fluke wins without top performance from the other.

Nothing like the realization that a simple moment (fatique, mechanical, brain fade) can send you launching into the wall or weeds only to be picked up by the other guys you took with you. Watching thousand$ evaporate in an instant while hoping for as few injuries as possible only enhances the experience.

Tophat, you're really digging yourself in with the sophomoric bs. If you can come back from a week of driving school and run consecutive laps within 5 seconds of a related series average, and continue to fling this nonsense, then I'll upgrade my opinion to "stubborn".

Edit: Just to help frame the challenge, 5 seconds is easily a class off pace. Should be easy, right?