Middle finger (Page 5 of 5)

Katie got flipped off once and came in to let me know.  I cut her off mid sentence.  I told her to settle it out on the track and there is no whining in racing. 

She thundered back on the track and an hour or so later she wasn't angry anymore.  I'm not exactly sure what she did out there but she took care of it.

LemonAid and VK make some good points. The"slow" car is not slow, it's just being over-driven by this driver.

When I see a car driving like that on track I stay as far away as possible. The 30 seconds you might lose by letting him/her crash out is not worth the emotional turmoil of getting upset. If this type of driving bothers you then you won't last long in Lemons. Sit on their tail and wait for the mistake, or use your brain to find some "rolling chicanes" (traffic) to make a clean pass and get some distance.

Patience is a virtue in endurance racing. There is a solution to every problem, but rarely is the solution found when you're driving angry.

I was speaking to AFTER that.  The camera car never even gets to the bumper of the lead car to even attempt a pass until much later.  If he was really that much faster, he would have passed him again much sooner IMO.

As for out braking him, again, if I did every time I was faster that another car, I'd be putting myself into a bad position many, many times as you are never sure if the other driver sees you.  If he in fact sees you, he'll *probably* give you room, if he doesn't, you'll either have to slam on the brakes, or make contact.  Therefore I won't make that move unless I can make it all the way beside him so I'm SURE he can see me.

Again, an endurance race can't be won in one corner, but can surely be lost in that same corner.

Yea, if the video were a little more clear, I'm getting the same message here from Doug at ECR.

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Obviously with this much interest in this thread, we need a theme song...

https://youtu.be/u8QjyV8Af2Y

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the blue car darts over into the blend line, no? I thought this was frowned upon / a big deal at most tracks?

I took the blue cars dart over the blend line as here's the line faster guy. I wouldn't consider that the fast line. But being Lemons and mixing in likely no point by it's hard to say what the blue car is really doing, probably trying to take the widest (thinking fastest maybe) line possible. The video car (el-macho?) is likely in the blue cars blind spot which makes blue cars behavior possibly not as intentionally aggressive as it looks.

Well at least you have an opinion...

You can always display your middle finger in protest.

Read this whole thing.
Expected video to show OP's egregious ridiculousness.
Finally saw the video.
I want my 15 minutes back.

OP: if you didn't see him in your blind spot, then you didn't see him. But once he passed you, it's on you to not hit him.
Macho: if he didn't see you then he deserves a wider berth and a higher percentage pass attempt. Looks to me like the finger reflected your state of mind at the time, which isn't OP's fault. If this was late in the race then you probably had already passed this car at some point and taken mental note of their driving styles and habits. Maybe more video would show more evidence of deliberate blocking but that just looks like a typical Lemons race to me.

That video looks like literally every race I've ever run in Lemons. I'm with vkz24 here. That exact situation happens a dozen times a day to me. We drive a fast-ish class A car in the southeast and, maybe I'm just simple and naive, but I always always assume that the car just doesn't see me when they drive big like that. That assumption is a lot more pleasant than assuming they are deliberately being asshats. But I'm a glass half full kinda dude, so who knows...