Topic: Over-aggresiveness and losing it all
So, we saw this a couple of times this past weekend. Before we go any further, always remember our (probably stolen) mantra, "You can't win the race on one pass, but you sure can lose it."
So the 928 came in and we gave them the Chemical Ali. I've never seen humans work so fast. They got all 20 air fresheners on in record time and were out. Only problem was, they did the penalty so fast that they were immediately black flagged in again because race control thought there was no way they could have already served their time. In other words, spazzing out and doing a pretty lousy job with the Little Trees cost them more time than they would have spent if they had just calmed down and taken their penalty.
Then there's POS. You know, the F'ed Up BMW that was leading the race after Saturday.
They came in for a black -- there first -- and normally we just give first time offenders a wave through. They were hella anxious to get back on the track. So anxious in fact that they blasted out of black flag in the wrong lane and "drifted" around Jay, Jay's mother and Jay's father at 35 mph.
Meaning that they were instantly sent back to us. I wasn't sure what had happened and figured they had been let out so quickly that race control sent them back to see us. Only thing was, Jay had sent them back. Jay then proceeded to chew their asses in a manner I've usually seen Jay reserve only for people he's tossing out of the race.
I think he said something to the effect of, "You've just fucked yourselves out of first place."
In other words, if F'ed Up had just slowly, calmly and dare I say smartly made their way back to the track, they might have won the whole Megillah.