As my name has been quoted, I might as well throw in my 10 cents worth
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Before I say anything, my pace in these cars was never going to bother anyone.
Yes, I was "inconvenienced" at the start of the race as a blue car ( which I now know was Robbie ) burst through the gap and clipped my front end sending me into the armco on the right hand side. Initially I was just miffed that I had made a "safe" start, without screwing sideways like I had in many recent races, and still ended up nose first in the barriers
. But that is part and parcel of racing I guess.
Sadly the rather heavy impact with the armco deranged something important in the braking/steering department which became more and more of a problem as I pushed to try and catch the field.
Once the tyres began to wear the handling became more random whenever I tried to catch the cars ahead, eventually I became a hazard to the fast guys who were now lapping my car....so I quit. The coincidence that I had totally lost control of the car and launched myself up a grass bank had nothing to do with that decision.
As regards messages during the race...and especially last night's
I fully commiserate with drivers who have their racing interrupted by members with minimal experience. When you are in the heat of battle and every tenth matters, having to negotiate someone who is seriously struggling to control their car whilst someone else is climbing all over your tailpipes can be very stressful, and things are said/posted in the heat of the moment.
However......I firmly believe that we all have to learn how to race online and it is not an easy transition from racing AI on your own PC to competing against fire breathing aliens on a server. It takes a while to comprehend how they can be sooo fast!!
My own debut on line with GPL was woeful ( some say I have barely improved over the last 15 years!) and I almost succeeded in taking out both the leader and second place driver at Mosport in a single move.
It is rather clear to all of us that Robbie is struggling to get to grips with the pace of GTL online ( I know how that feels) , so perhaps what we should be doing is offering some advice/tutoring/mentoring on the server prior to the upcoming events?. Having watched Robbie I would suggest that he is simply trying too hard and ambition is exceeding current ability, but all of that will improve in time.