Yep, I 2nd everything Chris says.
However… I can’t help but wonder if this overwhelming sense of happiness and wellbeing actually comes from a source akin to that discovered by Ron Howard back in 1985. Those old enough to recall Ron's early directorial work "Cocoon" will remember an indoor swimming pool with pod's on its bottom that are nurtured through gestation by their other worldly owners in human skin, who peel off that skin occassionally, and frolic their ethereal white light spirits in the pool to enrich the water for the pods. Some mere mortal senior citizens portrayed by Hume Cronin, Don Amiche and Wilford Brimley happen upon the unattended pool and experience it as a fountain of youth, restoring vibrancy and a sense of well being they’ve only dreamed of.
When discovered by the pod owners it is explained that the pods will soon be leaving on a mother ship to a more suitable planet but the seniors can come along and enjoy eternal youth if they wish.
Wilford Brimley explains to his grandson in confidence that he and his grandmother will soon be leaving forever. When the boy doesn't understand he says. “Where your Grandma and I are going we’ll never get sick, we won’t get any older, and we won’t ever die…”
That about sums up how most of us feel at some point during a race weekend and, especially when the logistics of a race weekend are handled with the aplomb this one was, why we can’t wait to do it again…
We’ve been assuming that those coolers of bottled water in the pits are actually filled with spring water but I think we might have to check the source a bit more closely.