He wasn't the only one. In the first lap of Sprint 2, had a guy drive me off the asphalt in Nine doing the same thing. Luckily I kept it out of the blue bushes. But the rest of the field went by before I was waved back on the track. Arrgh! and in a points sprint too. Likely wouldn't have gotten position points from where I started, but in these big field events, I figure the cars behind points become very important.

 

Dave:
Going to get Scott to either go with a PF08 front 06 rear, or 06 all the way around. We were talking about it at WG.

 

https://vimeo.com/43506458

 

Here are the pictures I took. No pics of the SP class since that's what I was running.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1082254...718874/WG_0612

Enjoy

 

Frank Thanks for posting. I especially enjoyed Tyler(my son) in our Blue 944 SP2 car that shows up in your video at about 17:40 until the end.

Bill

 

You are welcome but I have to say that I did not enjoy it when he showed up

 

initial post deleted... let's just say I found "defensive" funny.

 

More like the driving was offensive ?

 

Those damn 993s.

 

I think you are being a little harsh on car 5. I have known Dave and Kristin Karl for many years and know them to be good and decent drivers. They share that car so one of them is always driving "out of class". When they are doing so however they have every right to compete in the race. Obviously they qualified better and from there appeared to drive like any of us would to defend a position in a race. I certainly didn't see any sign of intentional blocking. If anything the the driver seemed to be inviting a pass and when it didn't come the car was moved back on line. At the same time the video car did not seem to be aggressively seeking a pass. When the time came that Car 5's driver obviously could not keep the video car behind they moved off line and let them through. From what I observe they were very close to keeping pace with the cars in front and, once past, the lap time of the video car did not show any great improvement.

I fully understand the frustration of being "held up" but the fact is that sometimes a slower car wins a race simply because we can't find a way around them - that's what makes racing fun. Number 5 had won the right to start in front and had every right to race for position - in your class or not.

Just my 2 cents.

 

Here's another of Yellow...

 

Nice run. I was looking forward to running with you in "H" in the enduro. (was teamed up with J Martin in his new H caymen) Jimmy was talking about you being the guy to beat all weekend. We decided to skip because of the weather but I did get a chance to run his car in the warmup. Hopefully we will have another shot to race with you at the next one.

 

I think the frustration kind of flowed over from qualifying ( see qualifying vid below ). I see your point about not being more aggressive but the last couple races I have rear ended drivers from following closely then an incident happened in front of them.

And then I finally get by him and this happens...My qualifying just had bad Karma...

 

Some days are diamonds. Some days are ......

Obviously I wasn't there so I have no idea what was actually going on but it does look like Dave was slowing up to get some distance from the car in front of him while trying not to let you by - we've all been there. Not meaning to state the obvious but... I will anyway. You don't necessarily have to pass in qualifying. Nothing lost by slowing up on an already slow lap or even running the pit lane if you need to.

Did I read earlier that you were going to VIR? If so, I look forward to meeting you there.

Laurie

 

Green Sprint #1, rear view, starting last in our group.

https://vimeo.com/43731483