Hello:
Recently I was a racer in the Winternats in Florida, That said one can only wonder if some racers have lost the view of this hobby and what its suppose to be. As a visitor , you get to see the best & worst things happen, I saw some very skilled and some not so skilled race and get taken out by poor driving, and when this happens as a racer, you have a simple choice, either save your equipment or continue.
I commend the host club for there efforts and understand there committment to this event, I have read your comments with the point of view that as a visitor and fellow racer, the verbal comments serve no purpose then inflame and cause the future races to repeat this scene. How as future entrant to these events does anyone justify the $$$ to these events and see the same story over and over again! Race visitors who I talked to, said there would be no chance for them to enter, just because of the confrontations they observed at this race , this is a $$$ issue as well, you lose the grassroots people and the hobby starts to shrink, there is nothing that we race for that is worth losing a friend or a customer because of what happens at a race!
Fellow Racers, We are viewed by race visitors who might want to get into this hobby,
so leave you ego at home, enough said
Thanks
I agree we have all driven badly at some point, some more than others, I might be a more, a lot of racers have been patient and kind to me and their have been a couple of times where racers haven’t and you remember who those were, but there must have been a lot more times when they have, so I think all in all model boat racers at least around these parts are paient, kind and helpful. I know some racers spout off and they are usually the same ones, we get use to them but visiter or spectater might shy away from the sport because of it!