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      11-01-2012, 03:29 PM   #82
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Hmm, what to do on lunch. X1 forum is slow so here goes...

It's too bad someone would snub anyone or anything else because they want to think they're somehow better because of their particular car. Like Jnm said, it doesn't actually take much driving skills to outdrive someone in a higher performance car who doesn't know how to actually make their car perform.

Anyone who drives tracks knows it's about driving skill and the correct setup for your skills and the particular track. And drag racing is about timing and consistency so the majority of loud wanna-be's who are obsessed with quarter mile times often lack much more driving skill than keeping a car going straight forward. The conversations at tracks are often quite different than conversations at a Friday night drag strip meet (But Saturday and Sunday afternoons are usually different than Friday nights as well).

It's which group you feel more at home with. Who cares what the M5 buyer thought, if anything it makes most of us think less of him as a person. You bought what you wanted for your reasons.

Badge mods are the same idea. Badges don't make a car go faster, and performance mods aren't a guarantee either. I don't see the point in false badging a car or debadging either. If you want to stand out as a good driver then driver better, don't put all the reasons or excuses onto your car. If you want a show car for artistic reasons then do whatever you want, but artists don't ask others for opinions either.

Oh, and the people who have the high sticker cars and come to the track with no desire to learn their cars and won't admit they all have weaknesses are the same guys who you see do a few laps one day, they complain the track is bad, maybe they get pulled out of the sand or complain about the grass and dirt stuck on their car and finally they won't be around long enough to actually get to know anyone. The only time you really see them is when they're being pulled over by cops for reckless driving or trading the car in for their next ego boost.
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