The race in general went well. Only one bonehead move that took out quite a
few drivers but other than that a blown engine and one other yellow it was a
great race. We finally got in a green flag stop and had some tremendous
side by side action.
Overall great improvement for RASCAR.
Mitch
Sad when a great improvement is a third of the field retiring 10 laps in.
Kyle
If something happens at the front in a Dega race, it's always gonna be big.
I'm not sure the people in the top 10 today realised the extent of the
responsibility resting on their shoulders, judging from the line swapping
going on.
Jan.
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I know Jan, I'm still just sore because I was looking forward to the Dega
race. I would have made it through the melee if the instigator of said melee
had left his foot on the brake instead of staying in the gas and clipping
you.
Kyle
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That would of course be me and for that last bit I am truly sorry.
My wheel developed an intermittant spike on the left paddle (brake) which I
noticed during practice this week. It only occured during the odd left turn
but at Dega had the effect of causing me to slow suddenly and lose the
draft.
To counter this ( and until my new wheel arrives) I switched assignments
beteeen gas and brake paddles. The spike would not have much effect on the
gas at all.
I put in hours of practice this week but in the heat of the accident I
instinctively hit the old brake paddle ( now the gas paddle ) with
disasterous results.
Totally my mistake and again I am really sorry.
Elrikk ( Mike Kay )
PS And while I won't argue the case here I believe the correct term should
be "co-instigator" but as Ed said in chat I could have lifted.
Does this mean that your not setting of the accident in the first place?
Having looked at the replay from your view I'm really puzzled on how you
thought a pass like that could succeed?
What also bugs me (and others I'm sure) is that you never had the decency
(sp?) to say you were sorry. Now that hurt Mike.
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You guys were very lucky... Why on earth the two of you didnt pit is beyond
me... with so few guys left in the race after the accident you had the
statistics against you :-) Damn lucky for you that Tim's engine blew up and
created that second yellow...
Only 2 cautions is a new record for us I think..
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Thats the great thing of having green flag pitstops. Its not who is the
fastest, but who has the best strategy, or yellow flag luck. Not that I'm
saying turn off yellows, but if we can get more green flag racing, we'll see
more of this sort of thing happening.
Steve
Congratulations to Joon!!
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This was the most fun I've had in a race in a long time. You could RACE
instead of just being in a damned parade for dozens of laps.
It was as fun as the real race on TV today (which was awesome).
I only have one concern about our race, and it was someone doing something
that was agreed would not be a part of our racing. It happened anyway, lap
after lap. It was extremely frustrating, and luckily I am a clean racer and
kept my cool. Not everyone would have been so patient.
The appropriate people know what I'm talking about, and I leave it up to
them to decide whether it needs to be addressed or not.
Other than that, nice win Joon!
-Larry
Plus I've learned to take no chances that would put me in the back of the
pack.
Oh, well. It worked out :)
-Larry
> > Great win JoonJoonLi!
> > The race in general went well. Only one bonehead move that took out
quite
> a
> > few drivers but other than that a blown engine and one other yellow it
was
> a
> > great race. We finally got in a green flag stop and had some tremendous
> > side by side action.
> > Overall great improvement for RASCAR.
> > Mitch
We just had a better race than expected :)
-Larry
> > You guys were very lucky... Why on earth the two of you didnt pit is
> beyond
> > me... with so few guys left in the race after the accident you had the
> > statistics against you :-) Damn lucky for you that Tim's engine blew up
> and
> > created that second yellow...
> Thats the great thing of having green flag pitstops. Its not who is the
> fastest, but who has the best strategy, or yellow flag luck. Not that I'm
> saying turn off yellows, but if we can get more green flag racing, we'll
see
> more of this sort of thing happening.
> Steve
"Larry" said:
The more "racing" you do - the higher the risk of an accident grows.
The first half of a superspeedway is just a "fight for survival" rather the
a race. In fact I'd say it's rather pointless to race for posistions because
the guy behind will always be faster than you making the pass pointless.
The reason the outside line worked so damn good was because Mitch and Ginger
were communicating with eachother and worked together rather than race for
posistion. One of the great benefits of using 'Teamspeak'
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We have fundamental differences as to what it means to be a Race Car Driver,
and what drives a Race Car Driver to compete.
But that's ok :) I'm not out to change you, as long as you are not out to
change me. As long as that's understood, we'll get along just fine.
-Larry
