This is not only limited to summer. Last GT1C season was in middle of the winter. There was the same trend there and then. I've had the most miserable start to any season ever. I had chosen the wrong car at first. Changed the car. Failed first race with the new car. How hard can it be I wondered. And basically then I stud up on my feet and started enjoying the car and myself. Never giving up until the last second of championship to take the title as I saw many drop out after their first mistake. I've even seen some of my competitors give up the race because they didn't qualify on pole position or outquali me. Suddenly they started not liking the combo. Yeah I see that.
This is not the story that I'm bragging with. Well, maybe I am a little bit. Still, it's something to motivate you to stick with what you've got. How many times we have seen things like that happen in the sport. How many times there were greatest of comebacks in last 10 minutes of football match. Remember Vettel's 2010 season comeback from what looked like sure championship for Alonso. Remember 2007 Kimi's comeback. And those are the most enjoyable ones as well.
The slower guys. Shouldn't you be embracing that some of those aliens failed and dropped out in shame? You had finally spot open for yourself when their weaknesses cough up with them. What you do? You let your disappointment from before go thru and hold you back. Giving up after the first sign of hardship shows weakness in character and I'm sick of people thinking they can just run away from problems. There's always the next time. There's always the new chance if you only have a little hope, little faith, little courage.
One really needs to enjoy simple driving of the car if he's going to go throughout the entire season. If you're only enjoying competition, and only enjoying beating others, then your road is not going to be very long.