McQueen was probably right: “Racing is life. Everything else is just waiting around.” And happily, if you have the luxury of being adequately funded, racing can indeed be your life, interspersed with pleasant periods of waiting around beside swimming pools in the sunshine, checking the time on your period Rolex Daytona and then strolling out to the helicopter. But back here in the real world, very few of us have the luxury to enjoy the true McQueen mantra. For the rest of us, racing has to be interspersed with long, long periods of waiting around, which includes the tiresome irritation of earning a living, paying bills, spending time with family, plus, of course, finding a way to fund that short, intense burst of competition when the lights change to green.…