Not gonna lie, I appreciate a win, or simply making the podium, perhaps just the A main for a big event... but honestly I prefer club racing over big events, I want to minimize the time I spend watching others race and maximize the time I spend at the track racing as many classes that I reasonably can to balance my track time.
Instead of focusing on my finish place, I keep a log of my personal stats, Hot Lap, Hot Qual, Hot Main, Hot Consistency as well as my stack rank which is a measure of how many people beat rather than what position I finished, this encourages me to race more competitive classes and measure my skill over time to see if I'm improving.
When they change a layout, I reset all my stats and start over with measuring my PR's for each stat, this allows me to "race myself" and I could go home in last place with a smile so long as I break a new PR on one of my stats
