I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
“All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.”
“Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.”