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Originally Posted by virtualbong  Agreed, but the guy should know that everyone knows what he did and look down upon it. Hopefully he will be smarter than that next time. |
You'd be surprised, with the adrenaline going and everything happening so fast it is possible to make stupid moves out there without even recognizing that they're stupid, especially as a novice.
I remember one time I was up looking at the race results and I hear some guy mumbling my race number. I go over and tell him that I'm rider 386, and he kinda flips out at me. Apparently I passed him on the inside before turn three, missed a shift, went wide and cut him off, forcing him to jam on his brakes and run off the track (fortunately without crashing).
Now, I vaguely remember the missed shift but that was really the extent of it, I'm sure I passed him like he said but at the time even if I could have done anything about it my brain wasn't thinking "you just passed this guy on the inside, don't run this wide" it was thinking "oh fuck I missed a shift oh shit what do I do oh fuck fuck fuck fuck".
Anyway I apologized to the guy as I would to anyone I caused to run off the track, intentionally or not...my point is, until he came up to me and said something I hadn't even considered that there might have been a problem.
Granted, it's a little different than T-Boning someone but yeah, as a beginning racer it can be a bit of information overload out there, hopefully we are smart enough not to do stupid and dangerous things but unforunately a lot of that understanding comes with experience. Until then, sometimes it takes a "you fucked up here, and this is why" from someone more experienced to really understand how stupid what we did really was.