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TIME AND SPEED LIMIT
To
most people a tenth of a second seems irrelevant, but when we travel at
over 300 kilometres per hour a single tenth means a long way on the run.
The
relationship between a pilot and the time to break a record is very
similar to the one between a hunter and its prey.
To
break a speed record means to get a double satisfaction: subjectively
because one is personally getting better results, objectively because
his/her speed has increased.
But
each new record is doomed to be broken.
The
victory on the run is a wonderful moment and each pilot/runner lives this
fight against time.
Yet
living at 300Km per hour , as it happens to pilots, may change the
relationship with time only when on speed races, when each fraction of a
second acquires a crucial meaning.