u/cruciblemedialabs

On a related note, petition to delay green flag by 5-10s at Long Beach?

Started P9. Climbed to P2 after a few laps, with 0x, even after dodging 2 massive pileups on L1. Then, on L9, the Red Bull/Verstappen (imagine...) car spears me into T1. Lost a few places, but kept my head down to try and get some back by the end. Then another car spears me into T16 on that same lap. Down to P13 or whatever. Then, I eventually catch back up to the guy who started on pole (but jumped the start and had to serve a drive-through, putting him dead last into L2). I get a move done on him into the chicane, and I don't know about you, but the subsequent wreck looks pretty intentional to me.

Finished P15 with 11x, when I went the entire race up to the first crash without so much as an off-track, and I was actively pulling away from the guys behind. It's races like these that make me wonder why I even bother.

I got distracted for a moment, missed my braking point, and ran very wide into T1. Guy behind me easily had the pass made but chose to ram straight into me, spinning himself and losing at least one place. I finish P2, and pull off the racing line to type "Good Race", when I get sideswiped by that same guy.

Imagine getting banned because you're unable to emotionally handle your own incompetence. Good riddance, I guess.

Last corner, last lap. Got a slowdown for cutting the course, then rolled across the finish line before serving it, and was awarded a 45-second penalty. Dropped him from P9 to dead last among the finishers.

You love to see it.

A small selection of misadventures I’ve had since Monday:

1. a race I finished with 16x from hitting two invisible cars and being intent-wrecked for having the nerve to pass someone

2. totaled in the last lap no less than 3 times

3. punted under braking so. Many. Times.

4. unintentionally punting someone who reactively blocked me on a straight, then moved back across to squeeze, touched my bumper, and almost took both of us out

5. unintentionally hip-checking another car into the wall after they nearly pitted me coming off a curb. I countersteer, the tail snaps back around, they get sent head-first into the wall

6. making a bad mistake, taking myself and another car out, being accused of doing it intentionally, and nearly intent-wrecked at the finish line as the other guy waited there to reverse into me

…and so many unnecessary off-tracks to avoid crashing cars.

Peace out til next week everyone. Promotion to A license can wait.

I tried to (admittedly, not quite as calmly as I should have) explain, to the 3,000+ iR 2 car, that taking a tighter, defensive line means you have to take the corner slower than you normally would, so he probably should have expected an earlier brake and not been 6 inches off the guy's bumper. Dude was having none of it, and started talking smack about my iRating and his prior incident count earlier in the race and whatnot, then said it was my own fault for getting collected because I should "learn to try to avoid the wrecking car".

Surely he's just full of shit and can't admit fault, right?

Last race before breaking into the 2,000 Club. Qualified P3, and spent the time in pits trying not to psych myself out. Almost missed my braking point into T1 from staring at my mirror, jaw agape.

Cleaning out my workstation because I'm not trying to spend another $1,000 on storage right now, and I found this one from a job a couple of months ago.

Sometimes, you just have to capitalize on what the universe gives you. Personally, I think it would've been irresponsible not to make this joke.

Well, this was depressing.

Climbed from P10 to P3 with a couple to go. Coors car had been semi-close for a couple of laps but never enough to actually make a move. I'd successfully defended, despite several crunches on the rear under braking and in the corners as you can see from the state of his front end, and having to catch a subsequent spin more than once.

This is the closest he got to a pass, and admittedly I slightly misjudged this corner resulting in a small 0x bonk mid-corner. And then, well...

What do we make of this?

""By putting blame on others, you give control to others. They become responsible for your performance. And not just performance, also enjoyment. Now, let me ask you-do you want that?"

This feels like a much better way of framing the "There's always something you could have done to avoid the crash" argument that personally, I find pretty frustrating and unhelpful. Obviously there are times where you just die and nobody would ever say you're at fault. Presenting the issue of blame in the average crash as the voluntary relinquishing of control and agency feels much more constructive and less victim-blamey.

I was excited to race at Willow Springs for the first time, and I thought I'd be safe in the "Advanced" MX-5 Cup.

Didn't even make it a full lap. Nary a lift nor a brake light to be seen.