Ok time for me to make some comments about the Racing Club expectations.
These are fun Racing Club events, not a serious League. Some of the behaviour tonight won't be tolerated in Leagues either, but what is happening to the friendly spirit of the Racing Club.
The event was heading downhill very early, with all of the aggro and arguements / complaints during Qualy. Followed by people complaining and quitting. Please read the Racing Club Rules, AGAIN. We have rules about chatting and guidelines for ways to handle grievances, use them. Let others concentrate on driving.
Very soon, these Oceania events will be open only to Premium members, and we will be monitoring Premium members, so lets get back to friendly and clean racing.
I'll post my race reports later. Fortunately, the behaviour during the races seemed better than Qualy, but we will review the replays.
Well, obviously the whinger during quali was me, and yep, I carried on too far, but what's the deal with racing against other drivers in quali??? I got out first... I stopped for the Red light at the end of the pit lane (and people nearly careered into me after I was well stopped) and then when it went green I had two very fast drivers right up behind me, racing... That's inconsiderate and illogical. Not only would I have compromised your laps, but you compromised your own. Then to top it off I got hit by one of these fast drivers. Sorry for the rant in chat, but most serious online races (and even casual races in private communities) stipulate that qualifying is about man, machine and track - not about racing other drivers.
Race 1: Well, got smashed in the first couple of corners but the driver did hold up and wait, and then apologised afterwards... It was a simple mistake and they happen. No hard feelings. Unfortunately it destroyed my car (Splitter, both front and back suspension had to be replaced) so from that point on I was just circulating in open space. Bleh.
Race 2: I made a little mistake and tapped the back of a Honda into turn one... Sorry about that - unfortunately under such heavy braking, any tap in the back is bad and off you went... I held up and waited for you to go past - hope there wasn't too much damage.
Then however a while later I was racing along and Ben T was following me and I locked up and slid into T1... I held the slide and was cleanly on the outside of the corner when Ben T hit me and punted me off while going for the gap. By that stage I was straight and on the track - I felt you should have waited under the rules (or preferably not hit me)... Timestamp 820 seconds in my replay)
And a while later I had Michael S behind me and he was catching me into the final turn but made a desperate move on the inside that was never there and lost control and speared me off into the wall... Again it cost me a splitter and suspension failure... Michael did stop but only to quit... (Timestamp 915 seconds)
I made the pits both times, did the repairs and finished the races.
Generally I felt that there was a cavalier attitude by some drivers tonight - Maybe it was the lag (It seemed ok for me but several others complained) because last week it was really good and clean racing.
Roll on next week.
Cheers - N
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