More waffle…
Yes unfortunately more.
When I was working for Bae systems I was sent to Blackpool with an apprentice.
We stayed in a hotel in Lytham St Anne’s , had a great time, got all our work done and had plenty of spare time to enjoy all that Blackpool had to offer.
Eventually ended up on lytham St Anne’s beach and I started to throw stones, it got into that young male competition thing, all ego and those male chemicals that send you a bit mental.
Well, he could throw a stone 25% further than I could, and at the age of 35 I was a pretty decent athlete, I was pretty stunned, but it taught me an important lesson, we are not born equal.
I could have trained and practiced a lot , but he would have had 25% advantage on me from the word go.
We are not all the same, we get what we get with no say in it what so ever.
I really enjoy my battles with Brian, Han, Colin, Hape, Rasmus, Carsten, Alan, Douglas, David , Paul, Casper, Raul, Taj , Danny and more, just to name two,
and of course a special mention to Robert who always lets me past on the last lap.
If I was to get a lot faster, that pleasure would go, racing would then not be the same.
Just competition for competitive reason that would spoil it all.
I use the faster guys as a reference, not for one moment do I want their pace, just use them as a measure, also enjoy watching their skill.
But doing it myself would remove that, I would soon lose interest.
Dmitry is like that young apprentice, just been given a gift of being faster than most of us. But as he knows, there is always someone faster, more dedicated, more driven, more obsessed.
If you got the 7 billion people on our planet to single minded train for F1 with all the correct support and most important of all, financial backing and all in the same manufacture F1 Car.
None of our undoubtedly talented F1 drivers would be on the grid for the next F1 race.
We can all strive to improve, that is what spurs me on all the time. To get a 100% from a 100%.
It would be great to get some real circuit data from one of our aliens fast laps, so we can judge our meagre attempts with MoTeC.
Hint, nudge nudge Dmitry.
The end.