GT Sport Season 14 Division 1

It was an enjoyable very intense hard fought 45mins last night. Stuffed my qually, but somehow crossed the line 5th, less than a sec off a podium.
With some having race mishaps and others hardware malfunctions I am sure I will return to my usual rear of the field spot at Laguna.
Congrats to Dan, Noodles and Ranger.

As for my race I had some ordinary opening laps with a fair bit of battling, but managed to get Risky for 3rd near the end, albeit 20 seconds behind MetalGear and Noodles who were much faster and cleared off from the start. Will take P3 but need to improve pace for upcoming rounds.

Nailed it on the head mate. The fact that others drivers can see what I'm saying clearly means the rule was poorly written.

An example i can give to you was an incident in Supercars where Paul Morris did something similar at Townsville where they were running the hard and soft compound tyres. Long story short the rule was you had to run both compounds of tyres during the race. It however didn't say you had to run with all 4 wheels being the same compound of tyre. So Morris put one hard tyre on with 3 soft tyres (and ran 2 sets of softs tyres for the 2 remaining stints) and by definition of the rule used the hard tyre in the race. The rule was overturned that night but it almost got the team a podium. It's called bending the rulebook. Your not blatantly breaking the rules but bending them to a different context. The term "One Set Only" and "One Set Voluntary" has two different meanings. And it wasn't only me there was talk within my team chat of two stopping so the rule obviously wasn't clear to them either. I didn't "break" the rule last night i found a loophole within it and exploited it.

Done

VikChan also

Definition of a 'set' is not definitive. It could mean 'a set of 4' or a 'set of 2'. Technically a set of front medium combined with a set of rear soft satisfies the ruling but not the way it was intended. Bugga hey, but I don't think we need 5 pages of rules at the level the game occupies in the scheme of life.

Rage quits are poor showings of sportsmanship.
The manner in which we express ourselves also matters.

Yes I did as well. I was way behind in dead last over 1min behind the leaders so didn’t think I’d do any harm hahaha and also didn’t think there was any advantage doing an extra pit stop. I also misunderstood the rules as well guess.

I don't want to tell the mods what to do but surely you have to do something about whats going on above here (mod edit: content has been cleaned up) . I'd almost go as far as to say it's borderline abuse and it's out of order. No one should have to put up with abuse like this.
You must be a pretty sad person for real Metal sitting behind your computer abusing people thinking your tough. Whilst i respect how stupidly fast of a sim racer you are you've also proven to me how much of a right dick you are as well. I hope rooz does the right thing and makes an example out of you. If i had the say you'd never race under rooz again but that's not my decision to make.

I didn't want to get involved but i refuse to watch someone constantly beating someone whilst they're down and then have them make several posts in a public forum smearing someones character all because they had a bad night at the races and raged quit. Trust me Twitchy your certainly not the first and for sure not the last to do it, I've done it before and i know for a fact several others in this div have as well. Hope to see you Sunday night mate.

I'll say one thing Metal if you show up on Sunday your gonna have the biggest target on your back that's for sure. Finally
Metal just letting you know before you'll likely respond to this with some form of abuse I've heard it all before so you're not gonna intimidate me. You can make fun of the fact i got DQ'd or the fact your faster then me see if i care.

Congratulations on the win @ERT_Noodles and the podium @Rangeraus, @CaptainRisky21

Cheers mate. Obviously it isn't the way I wanted to win a race but it is what it is. Also congrats to Ranger & Risky

In all of this, I do want to apologise to @Hatfield and the mod team.

Ragequitting mid race, mental health issue or not, is not acceptable for an official racing league and one with ROOZ’s stature as well being a top flight racing league. It’s the wrong thing of me to do and was definitely an in the moment bad reaction to a poor performance. I was not 100% focused on the race and it lead to mistakes constantly throughout the race, not taking into account the early braking of people in front of me and causing a few hits here n there, and putting my car in dumb positions causing incidents. I apologise to everyone in that race that I had an incident with, especially @Rangeraus for our Turn 1 incident that caused him to lose a spot which he eventually drove superbly and got it all back!

Once again, I’m sorry for my actions and will adhere to think before I quit mid race even if I’m not having the greatest day. I chose to commit to this league and this season, while the car isn’t my fortay, it’s definitely a learning experience to become one of the front runners with this car.

as for the actions against metalgear... obviously my actions had nothing to do with him so the abuse was just a showing of how much of a person he really is. Fast on track. Over the top cocky off track. I would say again that I didn’t want it to come to this like last time we had a fun in. But screw it. He deserves it this time.

Regards - TwitchyGT_

I am not a Div 1 driver and am hesitant in making comment in this forum, but feel i need to say this. Only been around since late last year and am a great one for banter myself within the guidelines of ROOZ. I am pleased to see this was dealt with fairly quickly and justifiably. It was embarrassing to say the least. I feel some members may have not participated this season due partially to MG being there. it would be great if a few of them had a rethink and came back. The passion of @Hatfield and the crew is obvious and should be appreciated for what it is. A place to show your skills and be able to learn from the better drivers whilst taking the Piss in a pan enjoyable manner. Cheers and well done

I can't like this post even though I agree with it, cos it is sad to see anybody go.
I do think though we should look at the positives, and role models in ROOZ Div1 are/have been there in abundance.
The absolute cream of ROOZ Div1 drivers who have won Div1 championships, Dave, Keeden, Matt and StigTC all set an impeccable standard on and off track for ROOZ. And they all set a wonderful example of being humble.
Cheers to the Cream.