Dearest Flashing Red
I hope by this post you don't mean we won't clash horn's again,cause I love a good stoush. Now before you get all huffy I would like to clear a few thing's up. Now firstly you mentioned that you had been posting on here for 12 month's without anyone challenging you. I already know this because I have been an avid reader of this site for aprox that time, and have enjoyed reading your and most of the other regular forum users ( excluding the serial pest Ring man of course) thoughts . I generally agree with most of your post and some I don't , but as you may have noticed I am filthy on both the slow sections rule and also the change of tactic rule, the reason I hate both of these rules are because I believe they take away a huge amount of the tactical part of driving. I would ask you to tell me of any other competitive sport in the world that has rules were you have to tell your opponents what your tactics are before the race , and then the leader of the race is suppose to run at a certain time, I honestly can not think of one sport that has one of them let alone both. Can you imagine the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup being told the leader has to run furlongs in even time ( 12 SECS I think) we would the laughing stock of world racing, Can you imagine Queensland having to tell N.S.W what tactics they were going to use in the state of origin. I know it is all to do with the punter , I have been a punter since I was 15 and have done more money than I would like to think of , but I have always known that I was gambling and that I was taking an informed view of how a race might be run , but if it didn't pan out that way I copped it fair and square because I knew it was a punt.
I know the punting dollar is important to the survival of our sport , but I feel with these two rules they are pandering to much to the punter.
So when I read your post where you were giving the opinion that fast run races were fairer I saw red and went on the attack witch is a bad habit of mine so I do apologise if I offended you, but you hit a raw nerve.
Hope you take me out of the " too hard basket" soon as I enjoy a good debate
Cheers Denny