Originally Posted by Dock

I think it's even more basic than that. Few drivers are willing to drive their sports cars at the 10/10's performance level in the curves, because there is rarely room for recovering from mistakes when operating at that performance level. So my experience has been that the driver with the bigger ***** (smaller brain maybe?) ends up for example operating at 9/10's while the other driver decides that a more appropriate performance level is 7/10's.

Originally Posted by SimonK

I was actually referring to pilots in the know to compare cars on relatively equal terms but you make a good point nevertheless.

I will borrow this saying from I forget whom, describing drivers mentality; "it is very interesting that anyone who is slower than you is an idiot, and anyone who is faster than you is a maniac!

Originally Posted by deckman

^George Carlin