NickMcCoy
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Agreed.steve p;203950 wrote:
I just don't get why people have to come on the boards and shake their finger at people. What happened to the old days of face to face resolutions. I'm glad the video isn't working because next we would have 10 pages of different opinions about the video. I've been on both ends of the same situation, it sucks, but that's a risk that goes with the sport we all love. Nothing is gained from rubbing peoples noses in it. Like I said, sooner or later it will happen to you too. Again, glad you two are both ok.
I expected him to talk to me at the track but it didn't happen, I assumed that was because he was injured, I'm not trying to point fingers, just giving my perspective.
It's over with and since there is no way of proving who did what without the video there is no reason to argue about it (Edit- not that you're trying to, just saying that we've pretty much covered it at this point). My point wasn't to accuse you, just to say that we need to think about the risk and reward at this level. As I said above, I raced a shitload of amateur races two years ago, I had 37 top threes and a few wins, but I never took unnecessary risks because I knew it was club racing and we all had to work on Monday. But if you feel like you didn't take a big risk and that I entered your line then I can see where you're coming from.sobottka;203957 wrote: fwiw- im good friends with ed and have no beef with nick.
since were pointing fingers, i did not see anything but i talked with a couple corner workers who saw the incident as well a 2 racers not involed in this who said YOU were riding eratic. i think the conversation with the riders went like this. rob- "i think it was nick mccoy, red and black gsxr, did you see him?" other racer-"oh yeah that guy was all over the place." being predictable is key to saftey and it sounds like that may be a lesson you need to learn
I've been racing since 2005, ran up front for 10 weekends as am in '09, and have been control riding and instructing for 3 years and I've never heard that before. I'm not saying it isn't true and I will definitely pay attention to it next time, I'm just shocked to hear that. For what it's worth, in 15+ race weekends and countless trackdays I've never been taken out or vice versa. I do know that I was having a shitty race, my first race I was only two seconds off the winning expert time in the damp and had no trouble running with the mid-pack guys, for some reason I was way off the pace in the next one and I take the blame for that.
ERB68;203969 wrote: I appreciate your position and perspective. I did make a mistake but it was a small one I could have corrected in the corner if you had held your line. I was in a little hot and deep and I was going to trail brake around the out side of you. You were entering the corner kinda shallow but at the last second you moved left in front of me. I was setting you up to pass on the outside. I tried to brake a little harder to avoid contact, no joy.
Again I feel bad for the contact. This is the culmination of bad things I was a little off, you felt you needed to adjust you entry that late. Traffic played a part in this too. You prolly didn't see/know there was at least 3 other bikes coming in with me.
One of the track people I spoke with felt you cut me off.
Anyway, Racing accident and I'm sorry for the contact. Like said it was a lot of little factors.
Zippy;204059 wrote: No one said anything in a harsh way, it's just more of a discussion of how it happened and why that than any strong accusations. I don't think there's anything wrong with posting about it afterward. We all learn a bit from it. It makes us think. Bring it out of the closet, as long as you keep a civil head about it, I say. People will make mistakes, and sometimes a small one is enough to make things go very wrong. It can happen to any of us, and I know that we all hope it never does.
I'm glad you guys are both going to be OK. I hope the wallets are going to be OK too!
