iRacing has Karma…
I did two Skip Barber Race Series events today and I’m really not happy with either of them. Why? Well, because I finished well below where I could have and I crashed in both.
The first one, I did not do what I could to avoid an incident. I saw him very late (his car is dark and I couldn’t see it until after he started moving infront of me - giving me just a single second to react), and he pulled onto the racetrack in a heavily damaged car.
The thing that annoyed me about the incident is that he had just crashed into the tyre barrier and torn apart the rear end of his car, he shouldn’t have been on the track. When he later blamed me for wrecking his car, something you can clearly see in the video below I didn’t do, it kind of irked me. While normally I would have accepted blame, I felt he didn’t deserve that apology. He was too busy trying to be condescending and typing during the race to even allow me to say sorry. Had he kept quiet and given me a chance, he’d have been reading my apology (which I had typed out - but deleted). He also said that he was too far ahead and couldn’t see me on the F3 screen (which was wrong - there was a car less than a second behind him, which passed him before he hit the wall - I was the very next car on the track after his contact with the barrier), so that kind of annoyed me too…
I did plenty of things wrong in the incident, but when someone comes at you like that? I’m sure as hell not going to be as sympathetic or sorry as normal!
So, later on I joined another race… Guess what happened? iRacing has Karma I tells ya! I know this guy didn’t do it on purpose (just like I didn’t). He was obviously upset at himself and left the server right away after saying “sorry”, but not before I had sent a quick “np” (no problem) over the chat to help him get over it. There’s really no point attacking verbally attacking someone!
I’ve had this happen twice now, where someone doesn’t even give me a chance to say sorry or even explain what I feel happened. I don’t know if people even understand that they actually get a worse reaction out of people by being accusatory rather than just letting them apologize. I’m always sorry for every screw-up I make on the race track, but if you are already verbally attacking me, it’s so much harder to say sorry! I made a thread at the member forums saying the same thing.
Tags: Car Wreck, iRacing.com, Karma, Skip Barber 2000, Skip Barber Race Series, VIR, Virginia International Raceway
August 13th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting Dany Campos, and also then he said silly things in chat. First he kept saying “slow” to some people he passed while he worked his way through the field, and after the race ended he tried to implicate me for taking out his buddy in lap 1 even though I said earlier that I was a spectator to the incident 5 carlengths back…
There are a lot of morons in the world, but luckily also some karma