A question for all racers.

[Legacy555]

It's simple - treat others as you would expect to be treated.

When I started racing as a kid (20+ years ago), you feared the race director's wrath! If you were unsportsman-like, you were dealt with swiftly. Very often kids with a good sporting manner were more respected over the kids that t-boned any car in sight - and this lead to you getting more help from the top racers. If you accidentally took someone out, you always waited in an attempt to defuse the race directors temper.... the racing was so close, you couldn't afford to get the penalty. Back then, kids took their penalties on the chin, sometimes even with a tear or two - but you respected the Race Director's decision and understood that we all need to behave fairly for the system to work.

Now that alot of the racers are adults, the unsportsman-like behaviour seems to creep out more often as drivers push the limit of what they can get away with, and some race directors seem to have lost their balls too or are just absent when needed which doesn't help. And of course, now being adults, Race Directors are getting lip and bad manners back from drivers when they try to execute their judgements.

My opinion is that if somebody accuses you of being unfair, you probably have been - so play fair, and enjoy your toy car racing.