[Cliveyp]

As above, this is not an age-related issue at all. Much like their 1:1 versions, you get good and bad at all ages with RC. I 'retired' from racing around 11 years ago, after a good stint of 1/10 off-road and then moving into TC's apanning around 13 years. I came out of retirement around 18 months ago in TC's, kicking buggies back off last year and now just about to move into GT12. In that time, standards have changed fairly dramatically.

As with a lot of the above, when I started as a lowly 11-12 year old, it was drummed into you that you gave way to faster cars, looked ahead (this one is a major gripe of mine at the moment), and treated the other cars with respect, and generally thats what happened. My dad was one of the first to jump on me if I started to get reckless. Now i've come back and started to work my way back up from the bottom of the pack i've noticed more and more issues.....and they tend to be with the faster drivers of all ages. As I moved up through the lower ranks, I found a couple of 'problem drivers', but these were normally passed off with a quick apology - sometimes both ways if it was hard to determine who was at fault - and we carried on. As I've got nearer the top end of the field at club level, i've found a certain cluster of drivers who seems to resent the fact that you have started intefering in their races. These all have the same traits....impatient when it comes to lapping, often barging through on their line without thought to tracking you for a few corners to give you an opportunity to move; what can only be described as hatred should you ever actually get in front of them (or attempt to) which involves them wiping you out at the first opportunity; and my major gripe, the inability to look past the nose of their car. When I 'learnt' to race, I was always told to keep an eye on the track ahead, mainly to save yourself if someone crashes. That doesnt seem to happen now, and you're expected to shout if you have crashed to warn oncoming cars.....now, as much as I find this makes some sort of sense, what ever happened to being able to see these crashed cars BEFORE you got close enough to hit them?!? I can't be the only one to still look ahead far enough to change line before I get there?!?!