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Road Kill Drive-Thru
Kills in 2013 Shelby
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<blockquote data-quote="treynor" data-source="post: 13837418" data-attributes="member: 6214"><p>Fair enough <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I would say that I do not like unpleasant surprises. So if I expect to succeed at something, and do not, I'll expend effort to improve my outcomes. On the other hand, I am willing to try something where I do not expect to succeed, and if I then do not, it doesn't bother me.</p><p></p><p>Real world example: I took my McLaren up to Sacramento Dragstrip last year for Grudge night. After racing several other attendees, one fellow in a Hayabusa asked me if I would race him in the McLaren - going up against an exotic was on his 'bucket list', he said - and I agreed. As you would expect, he sucked the doors off the 12C, pulling convincingly from 30 - 100 MPH. He was thrilled, his friend got it on camera, and I was happy to put a smile on his face and give the crowd a good show. It did not bother me one iota to lose a race like that -- why should it? Obviously if I couldn't stand to lose at all, I wouldn't have agreed to the race in the first place.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, that same evening I went up against a low-12 sec LS1. I spun badly on the launch and the LS1 pulled a serious lead. I hunted him down on the big end because of the 12c's horsepower advantage, and <strong>barely</strong> beat him on ET. Would I have been cheesed off to lose that race? You bet - at myself, for screwing up the launch.</p><p></p><p>Make sense?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="treynor, post: 13837418, member: 6214"] Fair enough :) I would say that I do not like unpleasant surprises. So if I expect to succeed at something, and do not, I'll expend effort to improve my outcomes. On the other hand, I am willing to try something where I do not expect to succeed, and if I then do not, it doesn't bother me. Real world example: I took my McLaren up to Sacramento Dragstrip last year for Grudge night. After racing several other attendees, one fellow in a Hayabusa asked me if I would race him in the McLaren - going up against an exotic was on his 'bucket list', he said - and I agreed. As you would expect, he sucked the doors off the 12C, pulling convincingly from 30 - 100 MPH. He was thrilled, his friend got it on camera, and I was happy to put a smile on his face and give the crowd a good show. It did not bother me one iota to lose a race like that -- why should it? Obviously if I couldn't stand to lose at all, I wouldn't have agreed to the race in the first place. On the other hand, that same evening I went up against a low-12 sec LS1. I spun badly on the launch and the LS1 pulled a serious lead. I hunted him down on the big end because of the 12c's horsepower advantage, and [b]barely[/b] beat him on ET. Would I have been cheesed off to lose that race? You bet - at myself, for screwing up the launch. Make sense? [/QUOTE]
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