Any device or object that allows me to relish in great amounts of speed and hear the sound(s) of wind and mechanical urgency. To me, to move slow is more frustrating than not moving at all.
Mario Andretti. Jackie Stewart. Phil Hill (met him). Hans Stuck (met him). Hurley Haywood (met him). Nicky Hayden. Many more in many more aspects of life... Racing is usually my most immediate, most primal motivation, but there is much more to me.
All over the map... Too $hort, Hendrix, Isleys, Miles Davis, Burning Spear, Cube, Hall & Oates, Barry White, Jill Scott, Marvin Gaye, Michael Franks, Bob Marley, Al Green, Flipsyde, etc...............................
"Coming to America", the car chase in "Bullit", the weak story lines in "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" and "Vanishing Point" that mimic my life in my own mind, and all the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns... Oh yeah, "Rocky I, II, & III".
MotoGP on SPEED
My father and my mother, my father-in law and my mother in-law, my ancestors who made it through the Middle Passage, and anyone else who's persevered through great struggle to find some form of gratification. ..