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There will always be a few “bad apples” that make us all pay the price. A few guys punting a fellow racer regaurdless of sex, age or creed is just people being stupid in the moment.
I do have to agree with Doug, make another class and hope we finish before darkness? I don’t think so.
Have we all forgotten the most obvious fact and that is that passing at Bandemere is a real $#@%% for even the best racers! I don’t think this will be as big an issue at Grand Junction or at IMI will it? Maybe the officials do need to be more aware but, IMHO, the offending pilots were shown a rolled black flag weren’t they? The officials are human beings and do sometimes make mistakes but not so in this incident. What has happened is in the past. I think with all the comments and feedback we ARE stiving to improve the series and racing, don’t you agree?
Now, let the officials do their job and we as karting pilots do ours. And ours is to drive and compete fairly. Punting in ANY class isn’t acceptable and I think we all realize that now if we didn’t already.
Yep, The main point is to try and make things safe and fun.
“IMHO, the offending pilots were shown a rolled black flag weren’t they? The officials are human beings and do sometimes make mistakes but not so in this incident.”
Me being one of the pilots involved during a pass made on a lapper in corner number 1. I am sure I didn’t have the same veiw of the infraction as Bobby or the spectators.
It is in the past and we are lucky nothing real bad came of it.
Yet to rehash it. From my understanding Larry got the rolled up black flag. I didn’t? I was however passing on the inside of the lapper, which forced the lapper to outside which put him in contact with Larry. This left Larry in a bad postion of which I could not see any longer as I was gone. I then aquired a healthy lead untill I killed my motor from locking it up when I meet a nother lapper in a spot that I could not pass with out “punting” them in the rear bumper, which gave Larry the win. I find out after the race that Larry is now a Stupid Punting Bad Apple. When in my veiw, I really started the chain reaction with a pretty clean pass. Maybe I should be called the Stupid Punting Bad Apple and given a Black flag for passing a lapper in a race.
My point is just like the officials being human and possibly making a poor dicision from time to time, We Pilots are human too and deserve the same human respect when we make a split second incorrect racing judgement.Freeze,
I concur maybe the words were harsh, thanks for your point of view. Again, we are all human and not perfect. Racing is racing and $#$@ happens. Let’s put it in the past and go forward.
I read a thread last night on Ekartingnews.com about a guy with 3 years of experience and he locked up around the sweeper at Pat’s Acres (Oregon) with a slower kart. It happens and EVERYONE learns a valuable lesson.
Ask me about the rental I tangled up with at IMI one day (who was a client of mine) :bang
Mike, now I think we are seeing eye to eye. It is much harder to explain feelings and rehash events with just a key board to work with.
You have one up on what you read on e-Karting news, if you seen what happened at Bandimere, you saw it happen to a guy with over twenty years of experiance racing karts. 😆
No matter what happens at the last race, I allways look forward to the next race.Agreed.
According to my watch we all have only 30 days to and a few hours to make up for our (actually my) pathetic performance and go for the bullet (P1, first, top step, date with the trophy girl, etc.)
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:cheers: Well done on your web site and your commentary, The fast “Irish Man” referred to is an Irish Racing Champion in Formula Opel and a range of cart classes. Donal “Bonny”Loughrey has represented Ireland in Europe at Magny Cours and I am delighted to see he is back racing again. Please do not tell his mother he is back in the hot seat again;) Best wishes Steve
man the widowmaker is so tough!
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