Hi there, members of the past, present, and future.
Whenever I introduce myself, it feels like my mind takes a brief holiday when I ask, “Who am I?” But then it pulls itself home when realizing that the real question is, “Who am I in this context?” That’s a bit easier to answer.
I'm a musician. The years have stacked up a bit but I'm still reasonably fast both up and down stairs and it still happens that women in child bearing age mistake me for a future. I've been interested in motorsport all my life but apart from some karting I've never raced on tracks with a 4-wheel vehicle and I have good reasons for that: 1. There was no track within a 80 mile radius from where I grew up and 2. There was no money.
That was no tragedy though since I was more interested in motorcycles anyway, maybe because to get a bike that makes you go "woooaaaw" when you open the throttle is only a fraction of the price of a car that does the same thing.
For some reason—perhaps my profession, or maybe the quirks of the universe—I don’t have any friends who are into motorsports. Not a single one, at least not anymore. I did have one, maybe my best friend, but he passed away last autumn after what should have been a routine surgery. We used to talk about motorsports in general, and F1 in particular, all the time. He was more hardcore than me, active on Twitter and Reddit. I think he might have been a member of this forum as well.
I used to be a huge ice hockey fan back when I lived in the country where I was born—a country that had ice. Discussing the intricacies hockey and analyzing games was a big part of life back the and throwing opinions around was maybe more important than the games themselves. There was no need to take to the Internet to do it either. But if you stop doing it, it does not take very long before interest dwindle and then one day you are watching a game and you realize that you don't recognize any of the players names and that you don't really care about who will win. That happened to me with hockey. There's no ice here.
So I turned to this forum so I can throw my opinions around and stay interested.
I don’t have a favorite team at the moment. I used to support McLaren, but that stopped abruptly when Zak invited Trump to their paddock. I still like their drivers, though. I think Verstappen is incredible, driving with a level of precision we’ve probably never seen in F1. Hamilton was a favorite of mine until he joined Mercedes, my least favorite team. MotoGP, though, has always been closest to my heart. It’s been a bit sad watching the two best riders on two of the worst bikes for the last few years. Marc has dug himself out of his hole now though, which is good. That said, I still haven’t forgiven him for what he did to Rossi.
Fabulous intro, welcome 👍
