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I cannot agree with Tom's "You get damaged, you leave" mentality.

I had a dented hood today, and still came in third against two of the
fastest drivers in RASCAR.  Hell, I ALMOST won the thing TWICE!

<<<hide the children in the other room>>>

Well, I was running in 6th when Neil lost his throttle spring and was
plowed into by the 98 car, which took me and a few other cars out.

And then, it got better - I think I got the worst of it though because
the back of my car got pushed in.

To make matters worse, I was trying to avoid hitting the 19 car as we
exited the pits (hje was ina hurry to pass me, buyt he wasn't in a hurry
to proceed through the turn so I went up onto the track and got awarded
a move to the end of the longest line penalty.

My spotter was shouting to stay behind the 170 car (I WAS BEHIND THE
***ING 170 CAR), but the 170 car was ignoring his spotter who was
telling him to pass me.  As a result, I got a black flag for passing
under the ***ing yellow.

Then, on one of the restarts, the 98 car hit me AGAIN, and backed me
into the outside wall in turn 1.

I finished laps down in 8th or 9th place.  I don't mind finishing in 8th
or 9th place, but it really torques me to be laps down, ESPECIALLY when
it's not my fault.

Opinion: Single file restarts don't do squat for us.  All it does is
keep lapped cars from regaining a lap.  Other than that, it's just like
running double-file restarts. Caution-after-***in-caution.

I think a lot of folks need to practice.  A LOT!  You can't come to ANY
of these tracks cold - the fast setup is just too twitchy when you're
not used to it.  I think the fast setups are just fine as LONG AS YOU
PRACTICE!

<<<bring the kids back>>>
 I usually keep these opinions to myself, but you really need some dietary
fiber lately.
 I have nothing against you personally, but is i treated my customer base
the way you treat folks out here, i would be living in a refrigerator
packing crate.

Huh?

I didn't blame anyone for anything, I was just venting.  This is like
the 3rd or 4th race where I got a bogus black flag from the sim because
it got screwed up somehow.

Someone else's throttle spring breaks, and my race is ruined as well.

I put in a LOT of practice time for these races beacause I don't want to
look like a freak on wheels during the race.

Seeing as how these are pretty much the only online races I race in, it
twsists me to have results like this.  I think I'm well within my rights
to complain about the outcome.

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Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

It's **not** "Tom's you get damaged, you leave" mentality.  I was simply
pointing out an alternative to having heavily damaged cars run (for points
only) in an race that is not collecting points.  I wasn't suggesting "any
level of damage" should take you out.....only damaged that slows you to
non-competitive lapping just to finish the race.

Making "suggestions" or pointing out alternatives doesn't make them
"mine"....its not a personal issue and stop trying to make it one.  In as
many cases as not, I am probably not even in favor of something I might
suggest.......but I can still point them out or suggest them as an
alternative, you know?

Tom