To be honest, I thought there was a good chance you were just trying to stir
things up as a joke when you said, "You have to realise, Fran?ois, there's
only six reasonably good drivers in
RASCAR: Neil, Ginger, Mark, Brian Oster, Eldred and myself(*)"
There are plenty of good drivers (not just reasonably good) in RASCAR.
Whether they take offense to your comment and respond is up to them. I know
I do....and I'm going to respond (surprise!).
Just to make sure I wasn't going crazy, I just looked at our most recent
Winter Series results, and I finished fourth (7 points behind third place).
This despite being disco'd twice, once while in a strong first at IRP (was
running stronger in that race than in any RASCAR oval race ever btw---ended
up 15th), and being punted out of third at Kyalami (6 seconds behind first)
with 6 laps to go, which ended my race at 11th. The lapped driver who hit me
immediately accepted responsibility for what he did (by yelling at himself
on TS), and apologized at the forum. I also had a screen freeze put me into
the wall at Sebring when I was two seconds behind the first place driver,
and another later which put me into the wall again (ended up 7th due to
damage). If I throw out one of the discos (since the others ahead of me each
missed a race, but had no discos that I could find), I still probably lost
85 points due to connection problems alone.
I'm not even "reasonably good" though.
The Winter Series oval truck tracks/setups were new to all of us. I finished
as strong as Neil and Ginger on the ovals (Robert was #1, and Brian was
excellent), and Neil, Ginger and I were clearly the top 3 on the road
courses whether it was practice times, qualifying, or the races. Look at the
results at the web site, or the more detailed results posted here at ras
every week.
The guys you mention are *excellent*, excellent drivers. There's no debate
about that. I'm sure they know I think *very* highly of them, and have a
great time racing against them each week.
I doubt I'll ever understand how you perceive what goes on on the track in
RASCAR, but I know myself (and I'm confident others in RASCAR) have to laugh
when you say most of us aren't even reasonably good, but *you* are. Hate to
say it, but I can think of a number of RASCAR drivers who I'd rate above
you, even when speed is completely taken out of the equation. You shouldn't
be irked by that statement, considering what you've said.
"You have to realise, Fran?ois, there's only six reasonably good drivers in
RASCAR: Neil, Ginger, Mark, Brian Oster, Eldred and myself(*)"
That above quote by you ranks right up there with some of Simmons' most
obnoxious all-timers.
David G Fisher
