Post Karjala Blues

JULY 9, 2009

I FUCKING HAD THAT ONE.

But that little prick Durbin got in the way and deliberately kept me out of winning the race. He would brake a bit early in all the turns and make me smoke the tires a bit.

Gah, I'm tired of his crap.

I don't know if the Karjala officials hate me or what, but they didn't do anything to Durbin, or to Todd Wodarczyk for stomping on his brakes like that in the pits.

The worst part is we're now off to one of these big showy superspeedways. Yeah I know there's (some) skill in driving these, but they're too random to be a proper racetrack. Not to forget we'll be going 230 miles per hour or so around there...

...so if we get through the weekend without a big incident I'll be amazed. Those aren't so much about driver skill as much as they are about slotting in the right place in the draft. In theory you can make the winning pass of the race with 5 to go, and it will be for like, 7th.

Because then you'll just shuffle up to the front at the right time.

These races make the American fans happy but worldwide not too many people like them, and there's a reason why. Just one big circus. Let's get some proper oval racing in and not this bullshit.

Oh yeah, the New York promoters pulled a sharp one on the officials. Since they didn't like the Daytona Superspeedway rules, they opted for no restrictor plates.

PARDON ME... but GROW A FUCKING SPINE, OFFICIALDOM! Why make a rule like the half and half race when track promoters can easily squirm out of it like that?! What the fuck were they thinking?!

Anyway, John Calton called me not too long ago. I met him a few times when I drove the Calton-Morel Nova for the past two years, but he's mostly in charge of the Formula A operation.

Julia drove for him for two seasons, and she didn't have a problem with him, but she said some of the other people on that team are really nasty, like their technical director and such...

Gotta go, practice is about to start!

Bye for now!
- A.R.