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03-22-2007, 12:01 PM
Tony - Steve,
You guys are talking about two different things. At least I think you are. Tony's talking about "our" DE's. And by our, I mean RTR, but PCA as a whole should be the same.
On the rare occasion that I was out on track and I encountered someone that wasn't playing by the rules I simply went over to them in the pits and had a heart to heart. Now, I'm gonna assume that being the track chair has a slightly different affect than some Joe walking over, but I'd like to think you could have a meaningful conversation and work things out. If you can't then you should find Tom and let him handle it.
It's one thing for Jim and I to go out and play at an event that allows passing without signals. It's a totally different thing to have someone that has never run with us try to take a pass without a signal.
FWIW, passing without signals was probably the most common issue I had to deal with over the past 10 years. Most of the time the offending person was very apologetic and promised to pay attention for the rest of the weekend, but I did have a couple of people want to argue with me. Go figure. And on one occasion I had a student come up to me and say his instructor told him to pass without a signal. That instructor no longer plays with us.
The end result is it takes a certain kind of discipline to sit behind a car and wait for a signal while your buddy gets away. If you don’t have the ability to do that then you should go play with one of the other groups.
You guys are talking about two different things. At least I think you are. Tony's talking about "our" DE's. And by our, I mean RTR, but PCA as a whole should be the same.
On the rare occasion that I was out on track and I encountered someone that wasn't playing by the rules I simply went over to them in the pits and had a heart to heart. Now, I'm gonna assume that being the track chair has a slightly different affect than some Joe walking over, but I'd like to think you could have a meaningful conversation and work things out. If you can't then you should find Tom and let him handle it.
It's one thing for Jim and I to go out and play at an event that allows passing without signals. It's a totally different thing to have someone that has never run with us try to take a pass without a signal.
FWIW, passing without signals was probably the most common issue I had to deal with over the past 10 years. Most of the time the offending person was very apologetic and promised to pay attention for the rest of the weekend, but I did have a couple of people want to argue with me. Go figure. And on one occasion I had a student come up to me and say his instructor told him to pass without a signal. That instructor no longer plays with us.
The end result is it takes a certain kind of discipline to sit behind a car and wait for a signal while your buddy gets away. If you don’t have the ability to do that then you should go play with one of the other groups.
Michael Andrews