David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

You're not blessed with a competitive car, a competitive team and competitive setup every year.

I know how rare that is.

So to know that we had had a chance that year and I sort of squandered it,

Felt really bad.

But that got compounded when I got back on track.

Barely made it another stint and then put it in the gravel trap again when it started raining on the entrance into Porsche.

So this is part of why racing is so addicting too, because the highs are very, very high.

When you win a race like the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it feels just incredible.

There's so much emotion.

But if you fuck it up, the lows are very, very low.

It's really interesting about that specific battle where we're literally a few inches apart.

I can't fully explain it, but humans can develop an incredible sense of space where I can't see the edge of the back of my car, but I can know exactly where it is.

I can have a mental model in my head that gives me the exact dimensions of this car so that I can run within a few inches of a competitor car or within a few inches of the wall and not hit either when things go well.

The car is about two meters wide and it's quite long, five meters.

And you can't see everything.

The mirrors are actually kind of shit.

There's no rear view mirror in these cars.

You can't see out the back.

You can only see through your two side mirrors.

But you form this intuitive mental model when you get good enough at this.