Why I Need a Race Car and You Likely Do Too.

So in the Truck Post it was mentioned "no one needs a race car", au contraire mon ami!

So besides being the ADD poster kid (I have bad ideas forming in my head every 1/2 second), I was an angry young man. When I say angry I mean like a Joe Pesci in Goodfellas kind of felony assault angry. Also note I was pretty aimless; if you asked me what I wanted to do with my life a typical answer would be "going fishing on Friday"

Enter racing:

1. Because it was expensive I knew I had to figure out a way to earn a good living. 

2. All that pent up aggression now had an outlet. Additionally people saw that I had an ability and respected it...........good bye angry.

3. Those bad ideas like, it's fun to chuck a car sideways at 80 mph, were now socially acceptable.

4. I learned to work on cars; which is a pretty handy skill.

5. My wife likes that I have a positive outlet that keeps me mellow; makes for a good marriage.

When you here me say racing saved my life it's no exaggeration.

So as a matter of fact I do need a race car.............................................

In reply to Tom1200 :

I love this post. Competition is healthy and the desire to win really does keep people out of trouble.

Everyone needs hobbies and things that bring them joy, Tom.  A lot of southern guys love mud boggin' too.  
 

I'm super happy for kiddo #2 she found her happy place and activity super early in life.  I wish everyone could do that.  

I love endurance racing, and I wish the SCCA would come up with something like they had in the 80's and 90's, but having watched the Runoffs this past week, it sure has me jones'ing for a return to SCCA club racing.  This thing on Racing Junk sure caught my eye...

https://www.racingjunk.com/road-club-racing/184485535/-pontiac-sunfire-scca-gt3-race-ready-and-many-spares.html?category_id=5673&np_offset=0#1

I don't do drugs, occasionally have a beer. Racing is my addiction. The technical aspects of it interest me. The competition is great fun. The fast-ish driving is fun and keeps me from being crazy on the street. The people I've met are/were fun. Working on cars etc is a kind of therapy. 

Chicks dig race drivers.

I basically have a prescription from my psychiatrist for a race car. 

APEowner said:

I basically have a prescription from my psychiatrist for a race car. 

This should be on the back of every race car.

AnthonyGS (Forum Supporter) said:

Everyone needs hobbies and things that bring them joy, Tom.  A lot of southern guys love mud boggin' too.  
 

I'm super happy for kiddo #2 she found her happy place and activity super early in life.  I wish everyone could do that.  

I wish I'd found it sooner in life for sure. I wandered a while. 

I find myself *dragging* to get to the shop to work on things (it's leaky, cold, unorganized and a mess since I rarely get to spend proper time in there) but I know I need to get some things accomplished on my drift car if I ever plan on turning a wheel in anger in it.

The strange thing is, once I am out there, I can spend hours out there working on things for the drift car, cleaning up wiring, sorting out where I need to mount things... It's soothing yet exciting. I can invest 3 hours fighting split loom over some wires and not feel frustrated by the end of it. 

I have had a LeMons car of some sort for the past 15 years.  All of the things everyone here has said go for me, too.  I will drag myself out to the shop every night because I know the instant I open that door, and smell that distinct shop smell, my brain goes all serotonin on me and I will pound away on whatever project I'm doing until I'm fighting to see through my eyelids.  

Peter Egan said it best-

"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty." -Peter Egan