jester911

You think the primary purpose of wings is to PREVENT flight.

You take your helmet along when you go to buy new eyeglasses or check out cars.

You feel compelled on a road trip to beat your previous best time.

You are happiest when your street car's tires are worn to racing depth and the wear bars are showing.

When something falls off of your car, you wonder how much weight you just saved.

When you hear 'overcooked it', instead of food you think 'off the track'.

You sometimes hear little noises from your passengers when you get on the throttle right after turning in.

You thoroughly enjoy showing the tailgater behind how to drive around a highway off-ramp.

Your racing budget is one of the big three -- mortgage, car payments/maintenance, dating.

Your email address refers to your race car rather than to you.

You walk proper lines through the grocery store.

You've paid $4.00 a gallon for gas without complaining.

You bought a race car before buying a house.

You bought a race car before buying furniture for the new house.

You're looking for a tow vehicle and still haven't bought furniture!

You find that you need a new house because you've outgrown your garage and the neighbors are threatening violence if you park one more vehicle on the street or in the front yard.

Bonster

As scary as it may seem, I fit into about 80% of those. I guess I'm an addict. But I don't plan to get help for it . . . I plan to keep getting more candy.

jester911

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Your reading material in your bathroom consists of auto parts and racing supply catalogs, several books written by famous drivers, every book Carroll Smith has ever written.... and 400 car magazines, none of which have centerfolds.

People know you by your class letter, car number, and car color.

People know you by your "off"s". "Oh, you are the one stuck in the mud at ButtonWillow last weekend!"

You talk to other cars on the road, calling them by the manufacturer's name.

Your first date involves asking her to crew for you.

Your criteria for selecting a significant other include auto repair skills. Air tools optional.

Your friends don't recognize you without a helmet and driver's suit.

Your family remembers your hair color as "grease".

You plan your wedding around the race schedule.

You astound the clerk at Sears by bringing in a snapped breaker bar every other week or so.

You remember the dates and details of every race you've ever been in, but can't remember your phone number.

Your family brings the couch into the garage so they can spend some time with you.

You complain when cars in front of you on highway off-ramps don't stay on the line, causing your exit speed to drop.

A neighbor asks if you have any oil, to which you query, "Synthetic or organic?" and they reply, "Vegetable or corn."

You give out Summit Racing's number when a friend asks for the best hardware store.

You refer to the corner down the street from your house as "Turn One."

You look at the fire hydrant at that corner and see an apex marker.

You enjoy driving in the rain on the way to work or school.

You always late apex the intersection and try to pass a few cars coming out.

- Everywhere you go, you try to find the fastest line through the turn.

You always do a toe & heel downshift while whoever might be your passenger gives you a real funny look.

You can't stand anyone telling others how to drive. Of course, you are the best.

You can't stand understeer.

You always want to change something in your street car to make it handle better.

You will gladly pay up to $8 for a quart of engine oil.

You hate long distance driving, but you will gladly drive 800 miles to the race track.

- You think that traction control and ABS are for those who can't drive.

You've ever tried to convince your wife you needed that flow bench to fix the air filter on her station wagon.

You save broken car parts as " momentos".

Your last several freeway forays included just brushing the curbs as you apexed the on-ramps perfectly....

You've found your lawnmower runs pretty good on 108 octane gas (but doesn't particularly care for alcohol).

The local tire shop won't honor the tread life warranty on any car you have been within 50 yards of...

Bonster

Again, I fit most of those, especially this one:

You plan your wedding around the race schedule.

Not kidding! Lol!

jester911

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Instead of pictures in your wallet, you have timeslips.

You would choose a rollbar over air conditioning if it were an option.

You enjoy driving through wet, empty parking lots and using the emergency brake to kick the back end out.

White smoke coming out from under your tires is a common sight.

You consider the redline a "conservative suggestion" and the rev limiter "a fun limiter"

You spend more on insurance premiums than on food.

Your idea of a good time is sitting around figuring out gear ratios and the ideal final drive ratio for given situations.

When someone refers to "The Good Book", you think of "The Auto Math Handbook"

When someone asks where you went to school, you reply, "Skip Barber".

You have racing shops programmed on on your speed dialer.

You own five cars and only one of them is street legal.

You know the 1/4 mile times and skid pad numbers of your riding mower and want to improve them.

You've embarrassed your significant other at least once by insisting on wearing your full face helmet while driving.

You know the "racing line" of every turn in your daily commute, including your alternate routes, and practice hitting them every day.

You quote your street tire wear life in weeks rather than miles.

You regularly live test your rev limiter on that straight that's a little too long for 2nd but not worth going into 3rd for.

You've started looking for sponsors for your daily commute.

You've slalomed in a construction zone, and counted your penalty time in the rearview afterwards.

After you tell your wife where you'd like to go on your vacation she answers: "Why... is there a race there?"

924RACR

+1: Your crew plans THEIR weddings around race season!

2BWise

I was just reading this same list on the NASA forums yesterday.

My favorite is probably - You've slalomed in a construction zone, and counted your penalty time in the rearview afterwards.

But one that isn't listed and I'm more than guilty of - you have braking markers for each corner on your daily commute and try and see how much deeper you can go than yesterday.

Food Angel

Yep...For our 10th anniversary we went to Europe....So Jupe could drive on the Nurburgring.

And we have owned 8 Porsches in our marriage, but have purchased fewer pieces of furniture for our home (and even fewer plants for landscaping...)

cooleyjb

I thought landscaping was when I went four wheels off. Which means I have to buy a diffuser or something like that. How do plants help repair my car? What are you talking about?

Food Angel

You're right....Landscraping.

RickBetterley

You go to the track to instruct, even when you can't drive because your car is still being repaired (like I did yesterday).

Bonster

I'm the same way, Rick. Whether I bring my car or not, I still follow through with my obligation to instruct. Makes it kinda hard to do lead follows though.

cooleyjb

Come on Bonnie, follows are always hard to do in a Spec Miata

Bull

Atta Boy!

Bonster

Lol, very true. Of course, that can be taken two ways. I think I'll take the positive way -- in that you will have a hard time following me in my SM.