My husband and son both raced. My son still does and raced against Tony Stewart in a winged sprint car awhile back (Tony won and my son got 8th). Ali just parrots things he hears. He has no idea about the ins and outs of driving a race car. Big whoop, he went to two races. My first F1 race was in the early 80's (it was the last year for the naturally aspirated engines before going to the turbo). I was seated about 15 rows up on a hairpin turn. It was when all the greats were racing at the same time...Senna, Piquet (don't like him but his son is very likable), and Niki Lauda who I just adored. You never knew who would win. Not like when Schumacher and now Hamilton are racing, it ruins the race when there is no parity between race teams. I was able to see inside the cockpit with binoculars. Piquet was having trouble with his hands and was driving with one hand as he came out of the turn because he was shaking his right hand like my husband does. My husbands hands are damaged because of gripping handlebar grips and steering wheels. His sports doctor recently told him his thumb on his right hand in nearly an inch lower on his hand than it should be. But I digress...Ali is such a poser. A good movie to watch about racing is Ford vs Ferrari or in the UK I think it is called Le Mans which is weird because there is already a movie called Le Mans. It is the closest movie to real racing. I am very critical of racing movies because they never come close but they did a great job with this movie. Matt Damon was an odd choice for Carroll Shelby but it could be because I know about Shelby (his autobiography is sooo good and on cd it is read by John DeLorean (famous Detroit engineer who graduated from my alma mater). Christian Bale was spot on as Ken Miles and Caitriona Balfe was so good as Molly Miles. I love when they are arguing and she is driving and he tells her to slow down and she says "I can't because you know I love a clean racing line." A clean racing line in road racing is finding a line as straight as possible through a turn and doing so by losing as little speed as possible. Sometimes that means going to the outside late into the turn and coming out of the turn on the inside or visa versa depending on the camber of the track and how the car is handling but in a road course your car is set up neutral rather than Nascar where the car is set up to turn left in race mode (the car can still turn right). Also it isn't always possible because of other cars but when you have a clean track you can really fly. Anyways....back to wanna be Ali.
