From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   I didn't get my picks in for Baku this week, and a big part of the   
   reason as that I was working to get ready for my one race weekend.   
      
   Well... ...it came to an abrupt end at about 1:25pm today,   
      
   Our race had only just started, and at turn 3 of lap 1, the car   
   immediately ahead of me spun, and while I was able to get my speed off   
   to the point where all we did was bump tires...   
      
   ...there was nothing I could do about the Formula Vee following me...   
      
   ...who hit might right rear tire hard enough to fold up and/or break   
   every piece of the right year suspension...   
      
   ...and who ended up half on top of my car with his left front tire   
   immediately beside my head.   
      
   I haven't seen the video from his car yet (we have to have video cameras   
   now), nor have I heard from the steward of the meeting about his   
   conversation with the Vee driver, but to my mind, this was just a racing   
   incident.   
      
   Conditions were marginal--there had been rain for qualifying but it was   
   drying out, but all three of the fast(ish) FF driver determined that we   
   would all go out on the same tires, and the very last-minute choice was   
   to run on slicks. 15 minutes before our race, it looked like the better   
   call would be rain tires, but then the sun came out, and with other race   
   groups before us dissipating the water on the track,  we call changed to   
   dry tires.   
      
   And this change proved too much for Martin's traction in turn 3.   
      
   With me running close behind him, he spun 1/4 of the way around, and   
   there was just no way I could have tightened my line to go to his left.   
   So I moved as much to the right as I dared (with a wall preventing a   
   complete off-track avoidance, and hoped for the best. And I nearly   
   pulled it off.   
      
   Unfortunately, the Formula Vee running behind me had opted for wet   
   tires, and so had better grip in the mid-corner phase, and (despite not   
   having seen the video or heard the report) I don't think there was any   
   way he could have tightened his line enough to avoid me.   
      
   Or so I thought until the same driver forced another FF competitor off   
   the track and into spin that put him in the wall and completely   
   destroyed his left side.   
      
   The end result was this for my car:   
      
      
      
   And this for my buddy, Dave's car:   
      
      
      
   And today, I'm more than a little pissed off, because Dave is now saying   
   he's done with racing with us in Mission, and that's a huge loss for our   
   group...   
      
   ...but moreover, I discovered that these two incidents were nowhere near   
   the first for the FV driver.   
      
   He has already had his license pulled once for an incident of deliberate   
   bump drafting, which is absolutely against the rules in SCCBC/VRCBC/CACC   
   racing.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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