I agree wrecking is quite different from just plain bad driving.
But there is another class of wrecker, the competent driver that turns round
and tries to take everyone out when things don't go his way. I was racing
today at Indy I was out qualified by nearly half a second by a driver
calling himself No_Grip on the warm-up lap he told everyone to take it easy
and keep it clean, I passed him on the first lap and started to pull out a
gap then he lost it all on his own and span. He then decided to turn from a
quick driver that seemed sensible into an idiot wrecker spinning round on
the track and trying to take people out.
To me this is an under class of scum even lower than your run of the mill
wrecker, I can sort of understand some kid that doesn't have the patience to
learn to drive a sim like N4 getting his kicks by wrecking, but people that
have put in the practice to be very quick and then do that.... I just don't
get it
Alex
> Hi Gerald,
> for me a wrecker is someone who intentionally takes out other cars with a
> brute force attack for no other purpose than to wreck that other car. This
> _ex_cludes all racing indicents and even bad hard racing with minor bumps.
> Hard racing if it leads to crashes is simply bad racing, but not wrecking.
> Achim
> > How exactly are they fielding complaints? I am really leary of folks
> > rushing to judgment about stuff that isn't anything other than good
> > hard racing.
> > I know a wrecker when I see one... some things are pretty obvious.
> > Like folks driving sharply up off the apron going 90 mph on the
> > backstretch at Daytona right in front of the lead pack. That's pretty
> > obvious. Something should and MUST be done about drivers who do
> > things like this.
> > Other things are a pretty much a toss up. RacerA is headed for the
> > turn with RacerB just alongside his rear fender. By all rights,
> > RacerA has the line, but if he comes down to take it and RacerB
> > doesn't back off, there will be an "incident". Is RacerA a wrecker if
> > he takes his line? Is RacerB a wrecker for forcing the issue?
> > Depending on who you ask, what lap of the race it happened, who had
> > the faster car, whether or not on or both the drivers are Jimmy
> > Spencer, who was higher in the championship points, etc., you will get
> > different answers, at least when you're talking stock cars.
> > Personally, I dont want anyone other than me and the other driver
> > involved in resolving these type situations.
> > I know they're well intentioned, so at least you can praise em for
> > wanting to make it better for us.
> > Any place with concrete information about how and where this will be
> > enforced?
> > Gerald Moore
> > > Hi Gerald,
> > > with Papy's no-wrecker-tolerance policy, the driving on the tracks has
> > > become better, but there are more discussions in the chat.
> > > Achim
