Keep em comin, I don't care. Some funny stuff actually.
I was just making relative comparisons. I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to experience some driving and riding clinics that 99% of people will never get a chance to do, by default of where I have worked, and it was certainly an eye opener. Being in a Porsche GT3, flat out, with a professional driver on an international race track certainly changes your perspective on driving "skill". There isn't a scary ride scarier than what those guys are capable of doing with a performance car.
The neat thing is, when you go to combined events put on my a manufacturer, where the drivers give you track and street demo's, These guys are some of the most mundane obedient drivers the second they hit a public roadway.
I don't for a second think I am the worlds greatest driver, but I certainly have learned a ton of performance driving techniques that most people would never learn, simply by being in the right place at the right time and investing a few bucks. At one point in time motor sports was one of my first loves, so much so I saved for a year to spend 5 days at the Skip Barber open wheel clinic. Make fun of me all you want, but the stuff you learn there, isn't the stuff they teach you at the AMA, and a ton of it can carry over to improve your everyday driving skills.
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