Is It Reasonable?
Discussion
Is it reasonable to have no interest whatever in any kind of motorsort, and still consider yourself a petrolhead?
I don't need the 'petrolhead' label in order to define myself; I don't have a Ferrari jacket, a PH sticker, a "funny" (really not funny) t-shirt, or one with a picture of a car, or the name sof some road junctions on it.
I do, however, consider myself to be a petrolhead. That said, I am increasingly considering the possibility that I might not be, because motorsort of all kinds bores the pants off me. I make excepton for classic regularities; but that's less a motorsort, and more just a drive in the country. At night. In the rain.
I do enjoy hillclimhing, but only as a challenge against myself. I have no interest in rankings, classes, places or trophies.
I am a competent spanner wielder; I have owned a wide variety of cars - up to eight at the sime time; I've also done a bit of sourcing and inspecton in my time. So I do enjoy being around cars; and I like to think, I know a fair bit about them
I have been to motorsort events - British Grand Prix (back in the Brands Hatch days), rally stages (back in the Lombard RAC days), and BTCC (back when it was a bit amateurish). I've done track days (a lot of dick waving, and not much fun), and been driven round circits (by Nikki Lauda, and some touring car bloke). It all just leaves me cold. And incredibly bored.
Am I normal? Or am I slightly weird like the rest of you?
I don't need the 'petrolhead' label in order to define myself; I don't have a Ferrari jacket, a PH sticker, a "funny" (really not funny) t-shirt, or one with a picture of a car, or the name sof some road junctions on it.
I do, however, consider myself to be a petrolhead. That said, I am increasingly considering the possibility that I might not be, because motorsort of all kinds bores the pants off me. I make excepton for classic regularities; but that's less a motorsort, and more just a drive in the country. At night. In the rain.
I do enjoy hillclimhing, but only as a challenge against myself. I have no interest in rankings, classes, places or trophies.
I am a competent spanner wielder; I have owned a wide variety of cars - up to eight at the sime time; I've also done a bit of sourcing and inspecton in my time. So I do enjoy being around cars; and I like to think, I know a fair bit about them
I have been to motorsort events - British Grand Prix (back in the Brands Hatch days), rally stages (back in the Lombard RAC days), and BTCC (back when it was a bit amateurish). I've done track days (a lot of dick waving, and not much fun), and been driven round circits (by Nikki Lauda, and some touring car bloke). It all just leaves me cold. And incredibly bored.
Am I normal? Or am I slightly weird like the rest of you?
greygoose said:
How do you end up being driven round by Lauda if you have no interest in motorsport?
I'm buggered if I know 
.I was in about 1982, at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix. So no, I hadn't seen Rush first
. I remember being in the Transit as we went down a hill, under a (Dunlop?) bridge, and up a hill. And tnat's about it. It was probably something you paid for, and it was my birthday, so that's probably what happened.
I dont remember him saying much.
gothatway said:
What ? Assuming you mean historic regularities, the vast majority (if not all) of them take place during daylight. Some of the multi-day historic road rallies (Rally of the Tests and Le Jog in particular) do include evening/night sections, but they are not usually regularity.
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