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Originally Posted by SlowOne
Says it all Rich, well put. If you hit someone and go past, that's not racing, it's being a thug. When you race with people fairly and properly it is much more fun. Why do people want to bully their way to the front when no one cares or remembers who wins the Z Final, but they always remember a great race between good drivers? Beats me....
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Love this thread. A lot of it is down to driving standards, as you say winning at all costs. I come from an age (1986 when I started racing) when the race controller/director would tell the drivers over the microphone to let faster cars go past (if being lapped), in my eyes banging wheels with someone who has the same pace as you and the drivers respect each other is a different matter, it makes for good racing. The thing that does my head in is when you are lapping a car and telling the driver that they are being lapped and they totally ignore you and fire you of the track when trying to make a pass, granted accidents happen as with anything else, but when it happens week in week out it gets a bit much
. The stagger start is a good one as well, why do people race each other during qualifying? I tell my son not to do it because you are only racing the clock
Who can honestly say (hand on heart) if they roughly know where the other drivers are on the track during a race, because I can and so can a few of the guys I race with, this makes for good racing because they all know where each other is This seems to be the problem with a lot of drivers, no awareness of space