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[Yazza54]

ribiero said:

Flipping eck Donny the end of race1 looked interesting, good job surviving that for your champ Yazza

Thanks

The standard of driving was a fking disgrace

Edited by Yazza54 on Saturday 12th October 22:49

[SpudLink]

Yazza54 said:

ribiero said:

Flipping eck Donny the end of race1 looked interesting, good job surviving that for your champ Yazza

Thanks

The standard of driving was a fking disgrace

Edited by Yazza54 on Saturday 12th October 22:49

Seemed like one driver took nutter pills, and that triggered the chaos.

[Yazza54]

SpudLink said:

Yazza54 said:

ribiero said:

Flipping eck Donny the end of race1 looked interesting, good job surviving that for your champ Yazza

Thanks

The standard of driving was a fking disgrace

Edited by Yazza54 on Saturday 12th October 22:49

Seemed like one driver took nutter pills, and that triggered the chaos.

Today wasn't much different

Hey ho

Done and dusted anyway, P1 in the championship. My 4th in 6 seasons racing, not a bad ratio!

Edited by Yazza54 on Monday 14th October 05:32

[chriswhitlock]

Congratulations Ryan. Roll on 2025

[SpudLink]

chriswhitlock said:

Congratulations Ryan. Roll on 2025

Hear hear.

[Yazza54]

Some exciting clips from the weekend!

https://youtu.be/z_cEY58I-zA?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/iIUdW2l_pRU?feature=shared

[LimmerickLad]

WTF?

[Yazza54]

LimmerickLad said:

WTF?

• Shrugs*

[LimmerickLad]

Yazza54 said:

LimmerickLad said:

WTF?

• Shrugs*

Reminds me of a trackday I did at Rockingham a few years ago after I retired from superkarts that had quite a few Radicals in attendance.......by lunchtime most had smashed theirs up and I almost had the track to myself the rest of the day but it did put me off buying the bike engined car I had already put a deposit on....for the life of me I can't remeber the make now but it had a rounded tub and had it's own race series for a while.

[Yazza54]

I've not experienced anything like this before, we are normally a bunch that manages to keep it clean, so I am concerned that this puts the championship in a negative light. But I always share footage and this is the most "interesting" stuff that happened.

It is what it is, I'm not going to start slagging anyone off. People can watch and decide for themselves.

I think the pass I tried to make into the first corner was probably a bit late, not that it ended up with any major contact, but I can't really find myself to blame in any of the other stuff.

[andy97]

LimmerickLad said:

Reminds me of a trackday I did at Rockingham a few years ago after I retired from superkarts that had quite a few Radicals in attendance.......by lunchtime most had smashed theirs up and I almost had the track to myself the rest of the day but it did put me off buying the bike engined car I had already put a deposit on....for the life of me I can't remeber the make now but it had a rounded tub and had it's own race series for a while.

Global Lights?

[freedman]

Yazza54 said:

I've not experienced anything like this before, we are normally a bunch that manages to keep it clean, so I am concerned that this puts the championship in a negative light. But I always share footage and this is the most "interesting" stuff that happened.

It is what it is, I'm not going to start slagging anyone off. People can watch and decide for themselves.

I think the pass I tried to make into the first corner was probably a bit late, not that it ended up with any major contact, but I can't really find myself to blame in any of the other stuff.

That move through McLeans and then deliberately pushing you off between there and Coppice was ridiculously poor driving

Amazed he wasn't reported to COC for that

Also surprised it seem's hes a series regular, i's assumed it was a one off race or something

Edited by freedman on Tuesday 15th October 13:25

[LimmerickLad]

andy97 said:

LimmerickLad said:

Reminds me of a trackday I did at Rockingham a few years ago after I retired from superkarts that had quite a few Radicals in attendance.......by lunchtime most had smashed theirs up and I almost had the track to myself the rest of the day but it did put me off buying the bike engined car I had already put a deposit on....for the life of me I can't remeber the make now but it had a rounded tub and had it's own race series for a while.

Global Lights?

That's them not keen on this getting old and senile lark. Graham Hathaway IIRC.

Edited by LimmerickLad on Tuesday 15th October 13:32

[SpudLink]

freedman said:

Yazza54 said:

I've not experienced anything like this before, we are normally a bunch that manages to keep it clean, so I am concerned that this puts the championship in a negative light. But I always share footage and this is the most "interesting" stuff that happened.

It is what it is, I'm not going to start slagging anyone off. People can watch and decide for themselves.

I think the pass I tried to make into the first corner was probably a bit late, not that it ended up with any major contact, but I can't really find myself to blame in any of the other stuff.

That move through McLeans and then deliberately pushing you off between there and Coppice was ridiculously poor driving

Amazed he wasn't reported to COC for that

Also surprised it seem's hes a series regular, i's assumed it was a one off race or something

Edited by freedman on Tuesday 15th October 13:25

I think the race commentator said before the 2nd race that the COC looked at the first race but no action was taken. A moment of madness in one race is bad enough. But two races over two days!?

[freedman]

SpudLink said:

I think the race commentator said before the 2nd race that the COC looked at the first race but no action was taken. A moment of madness in one race is bad enough. But two races over two days!?

Cant even check, unfortunately 750 take the judicials down about 24 hours after each event.

[EmBe]

SpudLink said:

freedman said:

Yazza54 said:

I've not experienced anything like this before, we are normally a bunch that manages to keep it clean, so I am concerned that this puts the championship in a negative light. But I always share footage and this is the most "interesting" stuff that happened.

It is what it is, I'm not going to start slagging anyone off. People can watch and decide for themselves.

I think the pass I tried to make into the first corner was probably a bit late, not that it ended up with any major contact, but I can't really find myself to blame in any of the other stuff.

That move through McLeans and then deliberately pushing you off between there and Coppice was ridiculously poor driving

Amazed he wasn't reported to COC for that

Also surprised it seem's hes a series regular, i's assumed it was a one off race or something

Edited by freedman on Tuesday 15th October 13:25

I think the race commentator said before the 2nd race that the COC looked at the first race but no action was taken. A moment of madness in one race is bad enough. But two races over two days!?

Do they look at race footage from the competitors, because Yazza's is pretty damning.

I'd have complained, even on the footage we saw in those two short clips he was closing the door on passing cars and barging. What a dick.

[Yazza54]

They looked at my footage from race 1 and did nothing with it. Only one incident (which was more than a bad enough) was reported and that's the one they looked at. Even though I made the clerk watch everything he did nothing with it.

They didn't do anything about the race 2 incident. I didn't report it, just wanted to go home, but it was all over the live stream, as was everything from race 1.

There were incidents with multiple cars and this one driver not just me. It's been twisted into a bit of a me Vs him thing but everyone's pissed about it.

[EmBe]

I would expect the club to be all over it - one thing that puts prospective drivers off is the possibility of some arse costing you unnecessary money in repairs.
We left a series (not a 750 series) and a club because certain people seemed 'above the law' and had the opinion that BTCC rules were OK in club racing.

[Yazza54]

freedman said:

SpudLink said:

I think the race commentator said before the 2nd race that the COC looked at the first race but no action was taken. A moment of madness in one race is bad enough. But two races over two days!?

Cant even check, unfortunately 750 take the judicials down about 24 hours after each event.

It was only the incident with me into McLean's that got reported by the marshalls

I went up and showed them everything

The safety car brake testing TWICE and subsequent pileup, the McLean's incident and him taking himself and another car out into the chicane which put me back in front.

The only looked into the McLean's one, even though I made damn sure they sat there and watched it all.

He got two points for that, for inappropriate use of right hand down throughout the incident, then somehow appealed it, without my involvement and won. The 2 points was a bad joke, as I've had more than that for minor infringements, but the fact he appealed it and it was upheld, AND the other two acts of disgraceful driving weren't dealt with, is a absolute shambles.

He got a talking to, then on Sunday, jumped the start and did it again when I tried to pass into the chicane, full along side and side swiped.

I don't expect people to roll out the red carpet and let me past but there is an art to racing, he leaves gaps wide open then seems shocked someone tried to occupy it and rams into them.

There was racing with other competitors that was clean and fair, I was overtaken into into the Melbourne loop here, the driver knew he wasn't going to go around the outside of me into the chicane but he compromised my line into it knowing I'd be slow through it and slow to exit earning an opportunity would come on exit. That is text book race craft. Most moves are carefully crafted and setup before they happen. The same goes for safe defenses.

A narrative has tried to be created that I don't like hard racing which is absolute bks. Some of the best races I've had I haven't even won, but the racing was epic. I don't have to win to enjoy it but I do have to race with people that respect my safety. This is also not a "me" problem, it's everyone's problem, particularly the guys in the top 5 or so spots that have all had similar issues with this one individual.

Here's how it's actually done.. granted I knew he had a 5s penalty and I was a bit fed up by this point, but this is racing. The other videos I've showed are nothing of the sort.

[EmBe]

Yazza54 said:

I don't expect people to roll out the red carpet and let me past but there is an art to racing, he leaves gaps wide open then seems shocked someone tried to occupy it and rams into them.

Good racers think and plan, bad ones react.