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How do you explain to non-technical/non-car people that you don't actually race when you do HPDE?

I have the hardest time explaining it to anyone who doesn't know about cars. Recently, I have just given up and let them call it racing...Or I let my wife duke it out with them.

Funny moment:

my sister-in-law asked me to explain it, I told her we go around the track as fast as possible....[skipping some questions]...She asked me how fast I went, I said 110 on some tracks. She said "oh, that's not that fast, my van will do 140mph...[skipping some rofl]...Its on the speedometer, I am sure they wouldn't put that on there if it couldn't actually do it."

 

Shakespeare described HPDE as "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

-Ryan

 

I just tell people it's a chance to drive on track as fast as you feel comfortable. Yet, most still go back to "Are you going racing soon?"

I really don't even bring up my car stuff around non-car people, it's too annoying to try to talk about.

 

We should start out with what HPDE stands for, you know, for the ignorant.

 

High Performance Driving Event/Education, depending on the organization.

 

I hear it means racing...hehehe

 

I like to use internet memes and images pulled from google searches.

How I see myself:


How my coworkers and friends see me:


How actual racers see me:

 

If "racing" means "moving swiftly" doesn't HPDE qualify as racing? Even if you are not "racing" against someone else.

 

Pretty much this. Sad, but true. But I still try.

robert

 

No, I think "racing" implies a competitive event where the fastest/shortest time wins. Besides if we term it "moving swiftly" then drifting counts as racing and we know that's not true

 

"It's an event where gearheads pay money to drive around race tracks without speed limits"

"It's like going to the movies, there are a limited number of seats, some people show up late, and there's always an old guy in front of you, fully reclined and a kid behind you, kicking your seat. Meanwhile, the whole goal is to be able to make it through the entire movie without needing to run to the bathroom because you had too much coke, but in the end, the entire thing was for entertainment purposes only, and the only "winner" is the guy who made it home in time to go to bed and get 8 hours of sleep before work the next morning."

"Think of it like go-karts, except when you hit the guy in front of you, you don't get pulled from the track..."

 

"It's an event where gearheads pay money to drive around race tracks without speed limits"

"It's like going to the movies, there are a limited number of seats, some people show up late, and there's always an old guy in front of you, fully reclined and a kid behind you, kicking your seat. Meanwhile, the whole goal is to be able to make it through the entire movie without needing to run to the bathroom because you had too much coke, but in the end, the entire thing was for entertainment purposes only, and the only "winner" is the guy who made it home in time to go to bed and get 8 hours of sleep before work the next morning."

"Think of it like go-karts, except when you hit the guy in front of you, you don't get pulled from the track..."

 

Just bring them out and have an instructor scare them. :P

 

Have her take her minivan up to 140mph and when you crash and die, you can explain that with some hpde classes, you would have been much better off not dying while getting 4000lbs of death on wheels up to speed.

 

"The process of turning money into noise and dust"

 

HPDE is like running with the bulls in Spain but safer

 

I don't think this is really a reasonable solution.

 

Um depending on who, what, where you are doing a hpde you can race people. I've had many a battle in hpde4.

 

bro, i was battling in hdpe1 with point bys.

 

On Hoosiers bro, get some Hoosiers bro