David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

It's a really stiff setup.

It's nothing like taking a fast street car out on a racetrack and try to driving a little bit around.

That's a huge part of the satisfaction of driving a race car is driving it at the edge of adhesion, as we call it.

where the car is actually sliding a little bit.

A couple of percent slip angle is the fastest way to drive a race car.

You don't want to slide too much.

That looks great.

Lots of smoke, but it's not fast.

How you want to drive it is just at the limit of adhesion where you're rotating the car as much as your tires can manage and then slightly more than that.

and playing at it, keeping it just at that level.

Because when you're at the level of, or at the limit of adhesion, you're essentially just a tiny movement away from spinning out.

I mean, it doesn't take much.

Then the car starts rotating.

Once it starts rotating, you lose grip and you're going for the wall.

That balance of danger and skill is what's so intoxicating.

And it's so much better than racing video games too, because the criticality is taking up two notches.

I often think about people who really like gambling, where I think like, aren't you just playing poker?

And no, the point is not poker.

Poker is maybe part of it, but the point is that I could lose my house, right?

Like that's the addiction that some people get to gambling, that there's something real on the line.