Picture this: you’re a child getting ready to head to the beach. Your parents grab your swimsuit, sand bucket, towel, flippy floppies, sunscreen, water, and snacks, and you’re all out the door. For you, it’s been a fairly simple operation to have some fun.

In racing, the general idea for drivers is to improve their lap times as best they can—shaving off tenths of seconds can mean all the difference at the checkered flag. But there’s only so much they can control—the track layout is what it is, the setup of their car is set by their engineers.

Across the globe, we’ve become accustomed to the routine of the FIFA World Cup. It occurs every four years, and the renowned football—or soccer, depending on where you’re from—tournament progresses the same way each time. Aside from the athletes chosen to play for their respective teams, really the only major thing that changes significantly about the World is the location where it’s held.

Perhaps not the first person one would think to reference on a subject such as this, pop star Fergie had this to say: “For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness.”

Consider this: when a house gets inspected before a sale, the entire thing gets assessed. It doesn’t matter whether one contractor did all of it, or if one did most while another did the bathrooms, or maybe the seller got a different contractor to renovate each room.

Formula One legend Ayrton Senna once said this about racing: “I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.”

When the state lines of America were drawn, many different elements came into play.

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