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I've always dreamed of being a race car driver and/or an artist. Like you, both of these dreams, real or imagined, were put on hold too long as somehow something else always came first. It's not to late for me to pick up oil brushes again that I laid aside many years ago but as for racing, that window passed me by.
While tracking your the S2000 is hardly the same thing as wheel to wheel, it gets me excited just thinking of it and I can hardly wait for the weather to break and May to come. If you take your S2000 out once, you will be hooked - I guarantee it.
My best friend has been through the Barber school twice. He swears by it. Since he ranks in the top 5 nationally in vintage MG racing, I'd have to agree. At least I get to read his notes.
Like Steve, I have been living my dreams by owning the S2000, and like so many of us I had always dreamt of being a race car driver. I too read Peter Egan
I discovered karting in a similar fashion. When my son was 14 or 15, he decided he wanted a kart. Our search ended with a square frame, very beat racer with a McCulloch MC8. After a lot of wrenching, we got it running and spent many afternoons in deserted parking lots doing "laps". We didn't have a starter and starting the high compression MC with a rope was truly humbling.
Skip ahead to 1996. I had moved to California and at the El Toro air show, I saw a new kart complete with body work and tuned chassis. I was hooked and within a few months, I bought a KT100 setup. I never raced it, but spent many days at So Cal tracks doing laps and trying to improve times. I agree 100%, that karting is pure race driving whether in competition or practice, the thrill is there. I've kept the kart in my move to Vermont and found a local sports car club that has autoX sessions near by. I plan on entering the kart and possibly my S.
The cost to thrill ratio of karting is hard to beat.
Funny you should bring up carts. I am working on "The Driving Gloves Part 3" (yes it never ends ) and it deals with Brothers, Sisters, Aurora Slot Cars and Go Karts albeit the off road kind.
Here is a little preview;
Yes Karts are real racing and some of the best days in my life have been when I was behind the wheel of a go-Kart!
Carting is racing. No arguement from me. I started there as well, a long, long time ago on Sunday's on the airport runways in France. The carts were not up to today's standards I'm sure but the thrill was there just the same.
Good for you!
I'm still trying to absorb all of Part I... it's an AARP thing 
) and it deals with Brothers, Sisters, Aurora Slot Cars and Go Karts albeit the off road kind.
