"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
07/17/2019 at 03:19 • Filed to: None
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
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Posted a pretty good time considering #1 and #2 were K1 employees. Maybe they have amazing skills, or maybe their karts got turned up to maximum. Maybe a bit of both. Unlike the first race, I actually got an okay number of clean laps.
This was my first time in electric karts. I think they’re 90% as fun as gas karts. They’re certainly a lot more fair, but there’s kind of a metagame to managing the torque curve on gas k arts that you completely miss on electric. The gas karts are usually gutless up to a certain RPM so the game is in keeping yourself cooking even if it means taking the “wrong” line on paper. Electric, you’re pretty much just managing grip & the other karts.
Speaking of which, my friend John... karts like an asshat. Great guy until he’s in a kart. Then he turns into Ricky Bobby and is screamin’ “Rubbin’ is Racin’”. It makes getting a clean lap tough when every time you come up o
n traffic, the guy behind is intentionally slamming into your kart. He got his comeuppance lat
er when they gave him the dreaded “let Nick pass” sign and he had to give up his position to me - followed by him getting spun by someone else.
Yeeeeeah buddy! It’s all good though. I didn’t give him too much crap because we were out celebrating his move to Seattle. Good luck up there, pal.
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> Nick Has an Exocet
07/17/2019 at 10:10 |
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Putting a lid on can have some interesting effects. One of the things I learned road racing over the years is that when you put a lid on your head, strap inside a roll cage and then go out on the track where invariably something bad will happen through no fault your own while hopped up on some much adrenaline you can hardly see straight, how you react in those moments is who you are at your most basic level. It’s not who you want to be, who you think you are or who you try to be, but who you are at a primal level. Some folks shut down, some folks are susceptible to red mist taking over, some folks can keep playing chess upstairs, and a hundred other variations in between . Not coincidentally , some of the most intimate friendships I’ve ever had are with fellow road racers.