consolidated

WTF? Took the guy out, no excuse or rule for that BS. At least the ole' car got to execute one last beautiful pass before passing on.

winders

Hip check? It looks more like aggravated assault or assault with a deadly weapon to me!! I sure hope the driver that pull that move received some kind of reprimand/penalty for that action.

Scott

onefastviking

Maybe I played hockey in a rougher league........

I'm not sure what, or if, a penalty was assessed but I do know the driver that got hit, so I can ask him and see. It sure looked like it warranted a penalty to me too.

Really my point in showing this was that our hobby is serious and blocking is bullshi*, make one move, that's it.
Race a line fine, zig zag bad.

jrgordonsenior

Pretty aggressive stuff, guess he didn't like being passed. I would have unhooked my 4wd dually and driven over that POS Miata sending it off to heaven too....

Sterling Doc

Interesting summary of the rules. The SCCA & IMSA rules seem intentionally vague as well, with qualifiers such as "may". This may be intended to leave things at the discretion of the steward/race control, but leaves the door open of interpretation & subjectivity. I much prefer clear rules, especially on a club level, where there are many different local stewards, with different opinions on what's acceptable. What's OK one weekend, may not be the next. That's not good for anyone.

On a separate note, let's not devolve this into an sanctioning body grudge match. There is room for different perspectives on racing, without either being right or wrong. Hopefully we can give opinions on this specific issue, without pissing on the whole sanctioning body, or it's members. Let's keep this constructive.

gums

viking, that's no block, that's a failure of the overtaker to execute cleanly, in a big way.
Also grounds for a whole other thread, and 15 pages.

Veloce Raptor

+1

Or a serious beatdown.

analogmike

Unless you have the God given right to do so (Senna)

Eifeler

+2

I really hope someone educated that fool.

Streak

Not my intention at all. I was curious to see what other clubs are doing so I spent some time getting the info together. It is only here for discussion.

racing916

+1 there would be more then words exchanged

James Achard

Streak, that's how I took your post, as a discussion point so we can come up with a similar rule and submit during our Proposed Rule change period.

Thanks for the information! I haven't raced in PCA for 6 years and am looking forward to my return at The Glen. When I was racing in PCA back in 2006, there was lots of blocking and defensive driving which was accepted as racing.

Besides this Limerock event, has their been a shift in PCA policy towards this, besides what has been mentioned in this thread?

Cheers, James

winders

Well, if someone did that to me and my car on purpose like that, I most likely would have to be restrained once I got back to the paddock area. That was criminal and was done on purpose. Someone could have been killed.

Scott

jamm

had to track this down and see what came of it.

http://mazdaracers.com/topic/2157-ha...__kent__st__40

offending driver apologized...the fact that it happened in TX makes me think he got awfully lucky the other driver accepted his apology.

Veloce Raptor

It happened in Oklahoma, at Hallett.

It takes a big person to apologize & admit fauult like that. Kudos...