intentional, was completely my fault, and if there was any justice in this
cruel world, I would have spun out with you and finished dead last. Sorry.
> Actually, Joon actively blocked me in order to keep me "between him and
> 2nd place (who was not near close enough to catch him before the end of
> the race). I actually rear-ended him as we exited turn 2 with one lap
> to go because he was trying to run the low line. I was clearly faster
> and was beginning to make the pass on him (I was 3 laps down in 8th
> place), yet he insisted on blocking me. He almost got spun out for his
> trouble.
Midway through the race I decided to take a gamble on pit strategy. No one
seemed to be pitting on that last caution we had, and I thought might just
be able to make it from there while everyone else would still need to stop
again. Luckily I was right about that. Please understand that by the time we
got to the last 3 or 4 laps, I did not have a car capable of being very
competitive.
Though I did indeed desperately want to keep someone (preferably as many
people as possible) between me and zugzug, that does not mean that I was
going to prevent you from passing at all costs. All you had to do to pass me
was do what LBT Racer did... get alongside me. Soon as he did that,
it was his.
Yes, I was running the low line. In the turns I really had no choice. When
LBT and Bfarmer went by forcing me to go higher, it was all I could do to
keep from riding the wall. Yes I was slower than you -- I had to let off the
throttle
sooner and get back on it later than you, both to conserve gas and to stay
low.
If you had chosen to take your fresh tires to the high line in a turn, you
were more than welcome to it.
Understand that normally I would pull over and let a faster car by,
*especially* if we were not on the same lap. This was different. I was in
first place at the end of
the race, I could see the second place car in my rear view mirror. Whether
he actually posed a threat or not I would only know in hindsight. All I knew
at the moment was that you were serving nicely as an obstacle for him to get
by before I would have to worry about him, and if you didn't like the
position you were in you could darn well earn your way out of it. I was not
going to lift my skirt hem and give it to you.
Now about this business of you rear ending me. I have watched this replay
from nearly every view over and over and over, and I can state with no trace
of uncertainty, that this was just plain foolishness on my part. The plan
was to come out of the turn in the center of the track and hold it there til
the next turn. What I did not realize until after the fact was that I was
giving absolutely no room for you to drift up the track, which you did with
uncanny precision. Perhaps it was my inexperience at sim racing which led to
this grievous error on my part; maybe it was the fact that I was flush with
e***ment at the prospect of my first ever online win. Regardless, I
screwed up there, and all the weak excuses I could muster in a lifetime
would not change that. I definitely should have given room at that point,
and I apologize for not doing so. Thankfully fate allowed me to learn my
lesson without wrecking the both of us.
My connection was flakey? People told me about my connection several times?
Did anyone else see this? My latency showed a low green bar the whole race.
On my end there was a minimal amount of lag between us -- the only person I
saw in the whole race with lag of any consequence was I think #37, or maybe
it was #39. Naturally this can be different from person to person, and I
suspect in your case may have been magnified by a deep dislike of having to
pass someone without knowing ahead of time that it's a sure thing, though I
will admit this is pure speculation on my part.
In closing allow me to quote from a post you made several days ago.......
"What they're talking about is staying on the bottom all the way around
the track. That's not racing (at least not in my book). Technically,
it also isn't blocking, but it *is* bad form."
I can see why you don't like it. I can see why you say it is bad form. I
also could see that if you added up all the ***, fuel, and bad form I had
at the end of this race, 'bout ALL you would have is bad form.
Would I do it again? you can bet your sweet bippy's......