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Originally Posted by PORSCHE917[22]
Surprise, surprise.
Motorsport catagories around the world have got lots of no talent rich dudes with too much time on their hands, over inflated egos and a great ability to embarrass themselves whenever they speak to the media.
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For as long as motor sport feasts on money (as it's done since the dawn of time), the majority of combatants will have dubious claim to their positions in the sport, based largely on the size of the wallet positioned between their butt and the seat.
Similarly with egos... if not for a desire to
prove themselves the quickest individual known to the species, they'd be content to say "meh, whatever" when aspersions were cast, intead of trying for one more position, or another tenth off... motor racing isn't full of virtuous individuals on gleaming white steeds, full of gallant endeavour... on its less-than best days, it has the capacity to hold the cosmos' most vast conglomeration of sordid, facile, superficial, two-faced stupidity known to man.
Yet to its adherents and admirers, the most sublime moments are marked by unfathomable bravery and virtuosity.
That said, to compare the likes of a Thexton to many of the others in unfair in that Thexton made no bones about his pace or lack thereof: he had money and passion for the sport, and so used one to indulge the other, unashamedly (and rightly so).
Perhaps the sport would be better for a few more Theckos, and less of the other...