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Originally Posted by boostinsidewayz
cars with less power, run in different classes and are most of the time lighter(240sx), or handle better(bmw). everything needs to be put in perspective.
if your excuse before was not having a helmet, thats very weak at best. 
so you're telling me that "the ultimate driving machine" can handle taking some turns at under 40mph? again pretty weak. also take your car back and get the recall done.
i know you havent been at jetro, and i also know some of your other spots. crashing the bmw sucks, but imo its more of a reason to come to autocross, less easy to mess up a car.
no i havent read anything about your drifting
nothing was intended to be to personal(its just the internet), your posts were just the first few that i hadn't read. |
I understood the concept of having the car in an appropriate class, though if I tried to Autocross my 240 I would be put in some horribly difficult class because of the coil-overs.
And no, having a helmet wasn't my excuse before, it was mainly money, though part of it was not having a Snell approved helmet.
I never refereed to my car as an "Ultimate Driving Machine". I'm quite sure it can handle turns at 40 mph, but I'm not trying to put unnecessary stress on my daily driver, especially when I know that it may already have issues that aren't resolved. Also, it's not a recall, or at least not so simply, it's a class action lawsuit, which means that if I wanted to use it to it's full potential I would have to get involved in it, and I believe my time has already come and past.
If you know I haven't been to Jetro then why reference it in your post? As for my other spot, the only one you know of is Florence, and I've only been back there once in the past 6 months, and probably won't be going back again. While autocross may be a less easy way to mess up a car, it doesn't seem fun to me.
In the same way that many of you do not think drifting is fun I do not feel that autocross would be fun for me. I'm not the kind of person that would enjoy driving in such a small technical course, and I would probably get frustrated a few minutes in and then not want to do it and realize that I wasted money to drive it.
As far as being personal or impersonal, it just seems that your post above was more of an attack than a response. Posts like that make me stop wanting to even try to have an intelligent conversation, because all I feel like I end up doing is explaining why I do what I do.
Everyone here is titled to their own opinion and opinions should not be stated as if they were factual information. This forum is for the open sharing of ideas, not the constant bashing of everyone else's. I know I may have a strong persona on the internet, and I know I may take a matter-of-fact tone when I speak, but it's because I'm confident in what I'm talking about.
This whole thing comes from my prior views on autocross. I do not feel that autocross is fun. I do not think that autocross is this awesome form of motor sport. I feel that autocross is for people who can't afford or who cannot go to a real track. I feel that spending money to do something I can do for free is not a worth while endeavor for me.
Now that I prefaced my ideas with "I feel" or "I do not think" can you guys please respect them and debate with me in a mature fashion.
I'm so tired of posting something up and instantly having people say, that's gay, or that's stupid, or what have you. It's getting far too repetitive. I don't even feel like I can post up anything I like in this chat thread without being bashed because it's not what the people in this thread like. Like sure, it's cool and all to mess around on the internet, but I'm tired of it and it's starting to get a bit hurtful especially the above post, where it's basically saying, "you're and idiot for saying the things you say, you're an idiot for doing what you do, and you're an idiot for not driving autocross."