If you race and lose, save the disclaimers for your mommy! No one else is interested in hearing them. Also, don't whine about your equipment - as the old saying goes, you race what you brung!
I was a pilot for Eastern Airlines for 25 delightful years. When they went bankrupt in 1991, I became the VP-Sales for SimCom International, an aircraft simulator building and pilot training facility in Orlando. My current passion is cycling which I came to very late in life - age 64, but quickly determined that I had the genetics for it. I train virtually every day, and I am the current Florida State USCF time trial, road race & Criterium champion, and the current Florida Senior Games 5K & 10K time