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Motorcycle racing. It's a surprisingly heady sport that takes intense concentration while you are doing it, and requires you to study and conceptualize what you
by cullenking 11y ago
Motorcycle racing. It's a surprisingly heady sport that takes intense concentration while you are doing it, and requires you to study and conceptualize what you do right and wrong to help improve your times. It's self-competitive and you have perfect metrics. You literally tick milliseconds off your lap times at the upper end of the sport. The racing part is secondary to the actual fun, which is going around the track at high speeds attempting to improve. Race craft is more about how to get around people that are in your way and slowing you down, instead of winning (though there is some of that too). The people involved are also, on average, very educated, smart and driven. This is party because it's an expensive sport depending on what you want to race, but also because the personality required to do well and stick with it has a ton in common with what a typical entrepreneur or other efficient businessperson requires.
Race weekend coming up, today is a practice day at the track ;)
- techdmn 11y agoNo racing for me yet, but I have a track day tomorrow. The level of concentration required is astounding. I still remember being amazed at the difference between my first and second track days. How much more I could SEE after I started to relax, and the tunnel vision faded away. :-)