David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But the sense that you're letting a team down.
Endurance racing is a team sport.
Not only do you have your mechanics, you usually have co-drivers.
So when I crash, I just feel like, damn it.
I could have avoided this.
Do you know what's funny?
I never think about that.
I don't think you can.
Because I think the moment you start thinking about being able to die, you can't do it.
You can't go fast.
It is in the sense that it's part of the appeal.
It's part of the sense that there's something on the line, that this isn't just virtual.
I can't just hit reset, restart, reboot.
If I crash this car...
We're going to be out or we're going to be disadvantaged or it's going to get destroyed or I might get hurt.
I've gotten lightly hurt a few times.
I actually had the year we won 24 Hours of Le Mans in our class, I'd been training in this Formula 3.5 car.
It's a really fast car.
It's a really nice exercise to do, but it's also, it doesn't have power steering.
So some of these race cars, especially the open seaters, they don't have power steering, which means that the steering wheel is basically directly connected to the front wheels.