kurquhart wrote:Mike wrote:Tawfik wrote:David, And expect anyone to take you seriously!
On this thread I'm not and you shouldnt either.
Dave is just pulling on Payne's chain, for good reason.
Inside jokes aren't that funny on a public forum. Care to enlighten the rest of us?
Kris, you're absolutely correct. I started this thread out, I thought, in a pretty straight forward way, offering some information about the Las Vegas outside track. Now, with "Mike" using the expression, "for good reason", I'm forced to provide a complete explanation of what happened rather than
leave it to the rumor mill.
Last year (2006), my first full year of racing with POC, the Bee and I came in 2nd in Class in the Cup Racing Annual Championship and 1st in Class in the Time Trial Annual Championship. The race Class was R2 and the TT Class was VO. My times included 1:25 at WSIR, 1:36 at Laguna, 1:45 at Fontana and 2:02 at BW (with the new extended turn #2.
This year, we show up for the 1st races at Las Vegas and I get called by the new Competition Director to discuss my points sheet. Bottom line, he says I need to be in a higher Class (GT2 for unlimited points cars with normally aspirated engines))or I can't run. He's not picking on me per se as he calls about 20 cars to his trailer and says the same to them. His bone of contention with me is too complicated to go into details here, but the POC GCRs are very complicated and different people can come to different points totals depending on their intepretation of the GCRs. For the last 2 years, my points sheets had been completed not by me, but by two different members of the Competition Committee including a member of the current Committee who also happens to be the Chief Tech person for POC. The new Dir. said he didn't care --he would be the final decisionmaker. Whatever!!!
Bottom line is they bumped me up in Las Vegas and I won both races and the Time Trial in the GT2 Class so all is well that ends well. I also went back thru last years' records and found I not only would have also won the Time Trial Championship in GT2 in 2006, but also I would have won GT2 in the Cup Race Championship as well (rather than the 2nd place I did in R2).
So, these guys (Dave and Jim and Mike)are just razzing me, I think, especially Jim who is also in GT2 and Mike, who won't even come out to the track when the Bee is there!!!!!!!!!!!
But, I can understand; it's "for good reason".
