Keep laughing, Sergio, but you know very well the truth is not what was being presented in that moderation and I'm on a mission to prove it because I'm tired of seeing this either frivolous, biased or inconsistent incident ruling. For that reason, I made a video that observes and compares incidents from this race, as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djY67DeGVTQWhat to look for in the videoAlthough explained in the video, I want to add some more information that was impossible to put in the video. Starting first with the Arf-Raoni incident, which was not even moderated (but something silly about an imaginary fly was?? great):
1) One could say that Arf actually changed his line under braking and that would be considered blocking, as Raoni has already taken the middle line in the braking zone.
2) Raoni was even further backwards compared to the incident with Sergio for which I was penalized, therefore there was no overlap at all, nor Arf changed his line just before the corner. In addition, as is visible from the replay, Raoni is carrying much more speed prior to the impact than anyone in front of him, including the race leader at the time.
3) Compared to my incident with Sergio, in which he was only sent wide and actually took back his position as soon as the next corner, the impact between Raoni and Arf was much harder and would have very likely retired them even if I wasn't doing my turn around maneuver.
4) Had Arf taken a normal line and not turned into the corner so early, he would've only been hit by Raoni and would have not hit my car at all.
5) To call this an appallingly bad rejoin and rob me of 3 places is obviously judging it not from my own abilities and judgement, but someone else's, and is not objective at all. Had I brought up just a bit more revs and produced a wheel spin, I would've rejoined well on time. That I consider to be my only true fault in all this and the rest is more down to bad circumstances, not the least helped by Raoni and Arf making contact with each other.
Now, onto the 4 in 1 view comparison shot (which I advise you to watch with the Youtube video slider a couple of times so you can observe all details):
1)
Top-left view: I make my intentions very clear and am already close to or into Sergio's blind spot under braking, but he turns noticeably earlier into the corner. Had my car not been there, he would've hit the tire on the inside... For this I get a
Blatant Rear End Shunt — 2 places lost penalty.
2)
Top-right view: Juha realizes he's braking too late as soon as he begins to brake, and tries his best to avoid hitting me by swerving to the outside of the corner. His good intent is obvious by his momentarily locked tire. Although responsible, he only puts me into a mild spin, and despite it being a totally different situation to the above, he also gets a
Blatant Rear End Shunt — 2 places lost penalty.
3)
Bottom-left view: Sergio is recovering from a half-spin on the exit of the previous corner and drops quite far behind before the hairpin. Amazingly he tries to brake some 50 meters later than normal, carries much more speed into the corner and does not even attempt to avoid hitting me - he uses my car as a mean to slow down his own. He as well gets a
Blatant Rear End Shunt — 2 places lost penalty, except in this case he totally deserves it and this incident is completely different to either of the previous 2, not the least because of Sergio not doing anything to try and avoid an incident. This is what I call ill-intended driving and it should be a factor when handing out penalties.
4)
Bottom-right view: As mentioned earlier, Raoni starts his braking quite late (and that from a keyboard driver who can't lock his wheels even if he wanted to), stays in the middle of the road, Arf moves over (and I'm more inclined to think he's entitled to do that as he's a car length in front), and Raoni goes straight into his back. Despite reporting that, despite providing replays, despite instructing moderators to study the situation carefully, this remains completely ignored and is not even moderated, let alone any penalties given to either Arf or Raoni. In a situation which is much more controversial than the one I was given a blatant rearend shunt penalty for, nobody is even considered responsible.
And then we come to the comparison of my incident with Natan at Salzburgring vs. the one with Sergio here. Same conditions, same situations, but completely opposite rulings. The video shows it all really, so see for yourself, then think how honest you actually are when you hand out such harsh penalties just like this, and especially when you give the same type of penalty for 3 so different incidents, where responsibility and intentions of both drivers are much different to each other.
Considering I had no record of bad moves and penalties, you sure used me well as a scapegoat to, I don't know, send some vague and subjective message to everyone else, and just promote more of this inconsistent way to deal with incidents, as well as motivate drivers to keep causing them. You are also unable to differentiate between obvious pattern of ill-intended and disrespectful driving vs. simple loss of control, imperfect judgement or in other words - actions that lead to racing incidents where the responsibility is shared (and which do and will happen almost every race).
I'm looking forward to the next PM that tells me to shut up so I can ignore it this time (and no basis for it really, because there's no profanity in my post). And I will also not believe anymore the promises of objective moderation that takes all evidence and points of view into account, because I spent 2 hours writing all my reports (without which you wouldn't have even moderated half of those situations), cutting replays, watching from different angles and using common sense to describe you how the situations unfolded. What do I get in return? Some lame joke about a fly, a completely ignored rearend shunt moderation, a severe penalty without prior infringement which no driver was given any recently despite absolutely appalling driving by some people (particularly in lower divisions), a penalty for incident that is not even caused by me and at best should be ruled out as a racing incident, and lastly, no penalty or warning for my little tap to Sergio's back near the end of the race which was much more of a rearend shunt than anything before that...
To me (and some others who I won't name) it seems this moderation, which should've taken MUCH more time than usual because of the numerous complex situations, was actually rushed and done with, before even moderation for other races that happened prior to this one was complete. Are you expecting me to believe that you really got all moderators involved in these cases as was promised before-hand, and that they would rather moderate this than do their own division moderation first. Hardly believable and the quality of moderation here is a proof of that.
Have a nice day,
-=Hristo=-
P.S. I fully expect the people who don't take racing in here seriously to make silly jokes with it, disrespecting those who do take it seriously, but it would be good if we can actually have some discussion that goes beyond that.
