On 2023-06-30 09:16, Alan wrote:

On 2023-06-30 05:14, Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 10:40:00 AM UTC-4, Alan wrote:

On 2023-06-26 07:28, Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 6:36:56 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:

On 2023-06-07 06:26, -hh wrote:

On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 8:26:32 AM UTC-4, Thomas E.
wrote:

On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 1:32:56 PM UTC-4, Alan wrote:

On 2023-06-04 06:55, Thomas E. wrote:

On Friday, May 12, 2023 at 2:23:25 PM UTC-4, Alan
wrote:

On 2023-05-12 11:09, Thomas E. wrote:

On Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 1:22:14 PM UTC-4, John
wrote:

On 5/7/2023 3:34 PM, Thomas E. wrote:

Dave McKay and Doug Floer returned for the
debut 2023 race. Another quick driver, Robert
Fraser, also showed up. The three of them were
the best of the remaining field by several seconds per lap. >>>>>>>>>>>>> McKay and Floer have been
faster that Alan Baker in almost all the races
where they competed. It's probably going to be
a fun summer of loser-Baker excuses. I'm sure
Alan will brag about having the almost record
FF lap!

Alan Baker did not show up. He claims to be
laid up waiting for hernia surgery. Must
terrible to have to wait in line for months to
get simple surgical procedure, huh Alan? No
racing until June or July? Giving the all-star
season winning competition a chance to get all
those laps in before you even show up? :-)

Canada is a very socialistic country. No surprise
one has to wait so long for surgery.

February to now August! Wow, that means that Alan
will probably miss the whole racing season. Very
convenient. He does not have to face drivers who
have cleaned his clock on a regular basis.

LOLOLOLOLOL!

Again, the last season that Dave and I ran together,
we were close to even on points (less than 10%
difference) and I had a large majority on fastest
laps.

Did he win the championship? Yup.

Did he "clean my clock"? Please, Little Shit. Stop
pretending you know anything about racing because you
took a Walter Mitty experience with "RaceWithRusty".

LOL, compared to NASCAR, F1 and Indy Car SCCBC is a
REAL Walter Mitty experience! Even compared to the U.S.
and Canadian national level competition SCCBC is the
minor league.

The 2015 SCCA Runoffs winner in FF was SCCBC member, Rick
Payne.

And my best laps around Mission are faster than his.

And whatever you think of SCCBC racing, it is REAL
racing...

...so far, FAR, above your little play at racing.

If we both stepped into one of "RaceWithRusty's" cars,
I'd clean your clock despite your previous "experience".

You keep bringing up a single example to prove a general
point.

2015 was a long time ago.

So that's a compliment that Alan's lap time has held up for
seven years and counting?

Well, to be fair, I only mentioned the year 2015 to provide
specificity to the accomplishments of another one of our
drivers...

...to provide context to the fact that despite being able to
run stickier tires than we are now allowed to run, I've run a
faster lap at Mission than Rick ever ran.

After checking, Rick Payne set the lap record on August 14,
2004 at 1:13, but the track was reconfigured in 2008...

...at which point he set a new record of 1:13.248. That record
was set in a Swift, and although they don't specify the model,
Swift's are so good that they are still competitive with the
best FFs currently built. When Rick won the SCCA Runoffs in
2015, he was driving his 1998 Van Diemen, but second and third
were both Swifts: A Swift DB-6 from 1991 and a DB-1 Swift first
built in 1983. And Rick's 1998 was completely optimized to win
at Daytona (the narrowest legal tires using the front tire size
on the rear as well with revised bodywork for better aerodynamics).

That's all just in case the lying little shit tries to claim
Rick wasn't in a car as good as my 1998. ;-)

In 2009, Dave McKay lowered the lap record to 1:12.783.

Then Olov Brandfors lowered 1.12.255 on August 7, 2011.

Alan McColl lowered it to 1:11.880 on September 23, 2012.

Then he lowered it again to 1:11.026 on August 9,2015.

Then Doug lowered it to 1:10.863 on September 11, 2016.

And then lowered the current record on 1:10.583 on May 6,
2018...

...and then on July 14, 2018, I ran a 1:10.833 in qualifying
for race 1.

And that's faster than any other driver has ever gone except
for Doug.

One lap one time, LOL. How many times did you win a race against
Doug? Or Alan McColl? Doug, Dave and KJ dominated this past
weekend. Most of your wins are against the also-rans. So, I
hereby admit that you are the best of the second tier drivers. Go
regularly win races against those top three to change my mind. I
think your race driving days are done. The #21 tires are probably
rotting off the rims.

So Dave McKay is an "also-ran" now?

LOL!

Way to dodge the facts about your "wins" and recent lack of race
activity. Yep, lying by omission.

I did not say Dave McKay was an also ran. You made that up. Do you
REALLY want me to look up the details races you won and publish it
here? It will show that quite a few were over the likes of Keith and
Erle. How many times did you win over Doug, Alan and KJ?

Qualifying is not racing anyway. What's your fastest race lap? This
month the winners were running in the 1:12 area for Sunday qualifying
and 1:11 in the race. You should have a faster race lap.

Wow, Little Shit.

You talk such an amazing amount of bullshit, it's hard to know where to begin.

For a start, qualifying laps are often faster than racing laps;
especially for the fastest guys in the field.

Why? Because in a race, if you're among the fastest, there are usually
only two situations, both of which result in you running slower than the
very best lap times you can run:

1. You are in a close race with another competitor of about the same
speed as yourself. The moment two cars are battling for position, they
both end up going slower, because the lead car is compromising optimal
lines to prevent the following car from passing, and the following car
is thus slowed down.

2. If you have no close competition, you back off a little to save the car.

Next, it's interesting you mention "KJ" (Olov Brandfors), and have
clearly decided that he is NOT an "also-ran" (agreed?). It's doubly interesting for the very reason (2.) I listed above; at least for some
of our races.

Dating back to July of 2019, Olov and I have been in the same race 14
times. Of those, I finished ahead of him...

...TEN TIMES. Of those, 6 were outright wins.

The interesting part is the weekend of August 22 in 2020,

because it was a perfect example of running slower than my best laps in
the race, because I opened up a gap of a little more than 10 seconds
ahead of Olov, and just maintained that gap.

If you are exiting turn 2 about 10 seconds ahead of a competitor, you
can easily glance across to where he'll be exiting turn 1 and gauge
whether or not the gap is increasing or decreasing.

In real racing, you always race as slowly as will get the job done.

And all you've done is demonstrated your ignorance...

...again.

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