Someone needs to send a letter

[Super Dave]

 

[251am]

 



   Holy Crap. Jeff, were you selling trolling licenses down at the dealer show in Indy!? How much are they?

[PaulV]

Tryin to come up with 2cents for this one...........

Mom always told me.........

Some risks in life are worth taking, all others are either miscalculations or just plain stupid.  The tough part is knowing the difference.


Gotta love Mom.

Paul
Polar-Optics

[Jeff]

   Holy Crap. Jeff, were you selling trolling licenses down at the dealer show in Indy!? How much are they?

Dude...  I didn't throw any bait...  Just having conversation.

[251am]

Dude...  I didn't throw any bait...  Just having conversation.

  I was not referring to you, Sir, kind owner/operator.

[dylanfan53]

You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God
Am I here all alone?"

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
-Dylan

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Remember that final wild race the year Colin Edwards won WSB?  That was the perfect example of two professional racers having the ultimate duel for the ultimate stakes, and not once did anybody get stood up.
Standing someone up means you didn't have a clean pass.  Standing someone up means that you've decided to take by force something that you didn't earn.  Standing someone up could get them hurt or killed.  Decide now what kind of person you are, then act and live with the consiquences accordingly.
Anyone want to argue THAT?

[HAWK]

Well said K3, I just have to think something is wrong when I come away from a race thinking that I need to get a cheap race bike that I won't worry about balling up and hold my line the next time that some idiot tries to stand me up. How about I just hold my line and take us both out, who's fault will the wreck be? Mine for not getting out of some fools way or the idiot who thought he had a right to the line I took first? No this isn't a track day, but it's not a contact sport either. All I can say to the "That's Racing" crowd is, be careful who you stand up, if he's as nuts as you are you're both in  for a wild ride to the ER.

[Super Dave]

You don't have to stand up a bike to have to change your line because of someones taking your line.  And riders can still take a particular line at a particular speed to force riders to change their faster line to a line that will make them go a longer distance. 

Where does the "line" get drawn? 

[weggieman]

In 1984 I told then race director Kim Casper that if one of these morons on the track takes me out in practice with one of their stupid "I have to win practice" moves, have an ambulance ready in the pits because I'm not the only one going to the hospital.......nuff said. I would have gladly given up my racing license to do it. After some severe reprimands by Kim the nonsense stopped.

That was due to diligence by the director who actively went out and watched practice and races to see who was doing what. There needs to be more of that. Officials can't see anything sitting in a tower all day.

JMHO

[251am]

In 1984 I told then race director Kim Casper that if one of these morons on the track takes me out in practice with one of their stupid "I have to win practice" moves, have an ambulance ready in the pits because I'm not the only one going to the hospital.......nuff said. I would have gladly given up my racing license to do it. After some severe reprimands by Kim the nonsense stopped.

That was due to diligence by the director who actively went out and watched practice and races to see who was doing what. There needs to be more of that. Officials can't see anything sitting in a tower all day.

JMHO

  Which directors would watch CCS practice, etc, on course, in the MW?

[weggieman]

Kim Casper, and I know I did. Can't say who else.