A few more things, because this brings up a good opportunity express how I see/expect 944 Spec to be better (not trying to pick on you personally, Jim
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While contact can happen, it shold always be veiwed as an opportunity for improvement in *both* parties. It may be 90/10, but everyone shold look to what could have been done better differently to make it not happen in the future.
I like to think that this is important to us as a class, so that we differentiate ourselves, and strive to be better, because, dammit, we are the best class to race in out there
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While we had a pretty clean East Coast Nationals - all cars made it to the start of the big race, and no one left with a balled up car (the best record among the major classes there), there was one episode of contact that left significant damage to both cars. Both drivers felt that they were "hit" by the other guy, and were without fault. I forced the issue to have this investigated, as both parties needed to own up to their end, and learn from this. We don't improve as individual racers, or a class, if we write off significant incidents at face value as "racing incidents." There is always something for us, and by example, others to learn when things go wrong. Contact, at most any level short of consensual bump drafting, is a result of some failure. We can always strive to do better, and this makes us better as a class.
Online, it can be tricky to keep things constructive, but I think still valuable.
One last perspective. When I was looking for who to go racing with in 2006, I came here, to find guys like Joe Paluch, Norm Hmaden, and Tim Comaeu seeming like level headed, helpful guys, that were having more fun than other classes I was looking into. It helped me decide to build a 944 Spec, when I was considering a SE30
I know you guys personally out there, and that you guys do have a good gang. Let's make sure the world kows it
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