What does "I live to launch" mean as a motto

Laura's hobby is drag racing -- a contest of acceleration between two automobiles.

"Launch" refers to the initial acceleration from a standing start at the beginning of the race.

Some of the machinery used in drag racing is pretty fantastic. When you get to the top of the food chain, so to speak, you are talking about AA-Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars that run nitro-methane for fuel and generate more than 6,000 horsepower from a single V-8 engine of seven or eight liters displacement. The engines are overhauled between each run in a time-frame of less than an hour. These cars are reaching speeds of more than 500 kilometers per hour accelerating from a standing start in four hundred meters, taking about four and a half seconds to complete the race. (For Americans... that's more than 300 MPH in 1/4 mile and an engine displacing 450-500 cubic inches...)

Viewing it as competition doesn't excite me much, but I love the machinery involved!

Did I get it right, Laura?

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"