I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
When I came here at UTech, everybody was saying I was too short, and I shouldn't think about running fast; it's going to take me a while to run fast.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.
It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.