You put "Really" to my whole quoted passage, plus you put "my" owners,- I have none hence I clarified who owns DMS and XF UK....
I am left in charge of the UK race team, however the factory in the states provides ALL of the racers equipment and deals with all finances when it comes to race bonus' and expense's etc...
Each driver has a contract that they sign and each driver knows they are "employed" to get the best possible results that they can for their race team. Now whilst Kev's result, in any ordinary day, was a superb individual effort and a stunning and dominant drive, it did not produce the end result that the team as a whole and the owners of the company who make the car would have desired. I guess for them it was like bending down to find a £10 note in the gutter and then dropping your whole wallet down a drain as you bent down to pick it up, a bonus in one hand and gutting in the other.....
I was right to say there was no team orders, since there wasnt any, it was left down to Kevin to decide whether he wanted personall glory or team glory, if there had of been orders then Ellis would still be champion - period.
Lets be honest too,
ANY other team, and you would have seen a different result as many of the people responsible for the other teams have already confirmed to me since saturday either to my face or on the phone, in fact no one was more surprised they won than the guys at Schuey themselves, right from the head of the company down through the staff and even God himself...... and once more well done to them, for a great win, which was earnt over 6 very hard fought rounds which ended up with three different drivers (and brands) tied on the same points and only seperated by countback. In some countries/series the tie breaker would have still seen Ellis champion, in other countries Pidge would have been champion, it was that close, but there can only be one winner (at least we can say we trianed him for a couple of seasons
)
Edit, just to add, when I was driving home on saturday night, I was chatting with Tony Bloomfield (who I was giving a lift too) and I said it was one of the weirdest feelings I had ever had coming home from a meeting. Normally, when any of the lads have done well at a national in the last few seasons since I have been in charge of X-Factory here in the UK, you feel really hyped up/chuffed with the result and of course the knock on effect it is likley to have on business too of course if I am honest. Yet despite an
awesome display by both Kev
and Ellis on saturday in conditions that are not supposed to suit our car (wet and slippery), they locked out the front row of the grid and cleaned up in the finals too, a result I should of been beaming about, but I must admit I still felt a little gutted that we had let "our" title go, the one we had held for the last two years. We knew it would come to an end one day and going in to saturday we felt quite sure that it was very likely to be that day too, especially with Tom and Lee in particular in such strong positions already in the series, but to see Tom slip up and only make the B and to outqualifying Pidge too gave us some real hope that it might still be on. To then be in the position to have the 2wd national title for the third year running in your own hands/destiny (as a team) and see it slip away as result of your own "teams" actions/decisions it is a feeling that 99.9% of "toy" car racers will NEVER experience and as a result will never fully understand either...................