Zoning out at Dragon Trail

[jasguer]

So, I was qualifying for Dragon Trail and around lap 40 I was zoning out and my mind started to wander. Here’s where it went, kind of my ‘Racers Creed’ I guess:

I don’t race you, I race the clock. Always searching for that tenth of a second faster around this corner or a tenth of a second earlier back on the throttle after that corner. You and I just happen to be in the same place in the same moment in time. If we become friends, that’d be great, but that wouldn’t change a thing. I don’t dislike you, I race the clock. Every day I get older, my reaction time will slow, vision will fade, muscles will weaken. I race the clock. At the end of the day, the only things that matter are; Did I race clean? Did I race fast? and Will the clock continue to tick for me?

 

[Shottah072]

Its like poetry

 

[jasguer]

Its like poetry

Aye, but I referred to it as the “racers creed’ therefore making it more “manly”

 

[Alpha Cipher]

...Every day I get older, my reaction time will slow, vision will fade, muscles will weaken... Will the clock continue to tick for me?

Jesus... I play GTS to take my mind off from my never-ending thoughts of death, not encourage them
As a "Racers' Creed" though it's pretty good!

 

[Ginger yido]

Well i didn’t expect this

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Dragon Trail is a great, great original GT course and I'm also guilty of zoning out while hotlapping it; great flow.

 

[Brn_Space]

I'd say half of my sport races that I win, are won on dragon trail, usually the one make, love that course. Zoning out or as I call it meditation because you are in a relaxed enough state of mind to come up with such brilliance!

 

[Renrag39]

Alsace is my zen track. Glad I'm not the only one who mulls over life's futility, joy, sorrow and possibilities. Not got to philosophical poetry as of yet. A hint of Yeats.
Not bad @jasguer

 

[tofuhero]

I don't race to race the clock. If I did, I would just sit in Time Trial all day. I race for that great feeling of clean driving with other people. When it's really good, it's like an elegant ballet. When it's bad, it's like Picasso's Guernica. But I keep searching for that poetry in motion.

 

[ColinNZ]

I'd probably have similar thoughts if I didn't keep crashing at that bloody bus stop every five laps or so...