There are the car people at the track for whom money is no object, or at least it never comes up in conversation. They are the ones with the Italian supercars, and the best of them throw you the key and say, here, kid, take it for a spin. There are the car people at the track with the beat-up E36 M3s who have day jobs and are constantly saving up for their next mod, or at least racing seats, so the next time they do a hot lap they aren’t falling out of the window. There are the Real Racers at the track with day jobs but also sponsors, for whom money is less a matter of day-to-day concern and more a matter of lining up their next benefactor. There are also the car people at the track who show up with their Fiat 500 Abarth, which also happens to be their daily driver, which they know they can’t push too hard because a wreck would be devastating in many ways.
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