Can not say that myself. Getting out of the Race because on a mistake from someone else is not that funny...
I'm sure Axel feels the same way, but both incidents came about (IMO) because of silly, pointless bickering (seriously, blocking on Tribune? what's the point besides pissing me off?) over specific positions at a track that really isn't about that, and rarely rewards such behaviour.
Monza (classic, pre-chicanes) is
all about the draft, and 10K even more so. Yes, everyone's heard that, but watching yesterday's race shows how few were listening.
Being 4th or 8th into 2nd Lesmo on lap 2 means NOTHING. Read that again. And again. Read it until it's sunk in. What matters is
which pack you're in. From then until the final run through the last corner and to the line, your job is to just stay with that pack, help it move forward if you can. DON'T be slowing others in that pack down for no benefit (ooh I'm first into Para lap 15 because of a silly outbraking dive that made everyone else lock up and scrub speed thru the apex, yay for me) because
that just moves you all backwards.Dave
not sticking to the right (where my draft was) on the way to Ascari
on lap 1 cost the rest of you any chance at staying in the lead pack, hence any chance of winning (unless both Cookie and I fell away). As soon as I saw how far back the rest of you were when I was braking for Para, it was "right on, now work with Cookie to increase that gap as much as possible ASAP in case either of us run into trouble later maybe we'll have some wiggle room or even a chance to pit for a splash-and-go if needed, save our fight for lap 20
when it matters". Even with him not fully cooperating (though I'd tried to make emphatically clear that I had no intention [or capability, tbh] of trying to lose him), it worked good enough to give me my first UKGPL Pro win.
Yes, it's tainted by lap 13, and always will be. But I've watched the replay many times, and... I'm taking it.