David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

So your program have to suddenly fit those changing circumstances.

And then in endurance racing, you're constantly interacting with other cars because you're passing slower classes or you're getting passed by a faster class.

So that's part of the equation.

And then you're trying to dance the car around the limit of adhesion.

So you got all those factors playing at the same time.

But above all else for me is to...

Try to become a robot.

Like, how can I repeat this set of steps exactly as I'm supposed to for two and a half hours straight without making 100 milliseconds worth of mistakes?

That's really a huge part of it, actually.

Your latency...

is enormously important in terms of being able to catch when the car starts slipping.

You get this sensation in your body that the G-forces are a little off, the slip angle is a little off, and then you have to countersteer.

And obviously the best race car drivers just feel like an intuition.

I have some intuition.

I don't have all of it.

So I do occasionally spin my car, but that's the challenge.

Obsession is part of it.

When I read and hear about Senna and the other greats, they were just singularly focused.

Max Verstappen is the current champion of the world, and he is the same kind.

Max has been fascinating to watch.