You know you are a racer when....
 

Following the Foxworthy idea: you know you are a racer when you try to push the microwave cancel button just in time that 1 second doesn't show on the clock but the 4 beeps don't start, just the one cancel beep.

Trite, I know, but I estimate that time to be in a drag racer's light reaction time of .020 second. I get it about once in 4.

You've got too much time on your hands.

... when you look at a turn to find the correct line and apex, no matter how fast you're going.

... when you look for your outs in all situations on the road (or the grocery store aisle).

OK, I admit to that one, even in stop-and-go traffic. SmileWavy

Man, I do that EVERY morning with my coffee.

When you are driving on the On-Ramp, and watching the car in front of you say out loud to no one in particular, "Man, that Voyager really blew the apex."

...when you are driving a shopping cart.

When you congratulate yourself on hitting the perfect apex in your daily car.


To self:
Man, Iwish my car buddies could have seen THAT one!


Self: You rock, man!!






I do the thing with the microwave oven, too.

I compare every turn on the roads to the turns on the four tracks I drive.

"That was just like turns 14 and 15 at Thunderhill..."


KT

Dang. Guilty.

People in the back seat get nervous or scared when I take some of the corners.
My wife says to them: "Don't worry, he's a driving instructor".


KT

+1

And I thought I was the only one...I try to hit cancel before the first beep :)

Guilty, It drives my friends bonkers.

do it with the microwave and toaster oven - to make it harder i do other things at the same time so i am not there watching the clock at the ready.

take thing out and put things into the fridge - i rarely miss my goal

Totally guilty.

I've been known to use those "your speed is" signs as trap speeds too.

When stuck behind a slow car on a curvy road, you start looking for the arm to come out the window, signalling a pass. That's if you're a club racer, not wheel to wheel.

And yes, I try to hit every apex even in my 85-HP Westfalia.

[QUOTE=procon;3898188]when you downshift & stand on it while while driving through a tunnel, just to make noise. QUOTE]

I'm not a racer (yet ;)).... but that is EXACTLY what I do when I drive the spyder thru a tunnel! It sounds INCREDIBLE!!!! Wish the tunnels around here were longer.

angela

..when you devote a good hour trying to make your sons matchbox toy car go threw a set of tunnels made of LEGO on the living room floor. Son given up on me long ago and gone to play out side.

Correct Corner apex every day - gulity (and drives my wife crazy - so added points)
Microwave count down - guilty
I even have my son (8) asking how much cars he likes weighs. He told one of my neighbors that his brand new jaguar XK would probably be too heavy for the track. :) I was so proud.