Gotta start by congratulating and thanking the guys at the Cooloola Kart Club for providing an excellent track and facilities for the Titles. Awesome job! Well done!
What disappointed me though watching the JNL and JNH races, was the repeated and deliberate use of the "cut through" at turn 1 by some drivers to gain track position and/or placings.
After using the cut through for no good reason, the driver/s in question would either:
- readdress to the same position, but gain track position tagged onto the back of the karts in front, rather than the 10 kart lengths back at the head of the next pack, or
- blatently slotting back in 5, 10 or 15 places higher up the order and continue racing.
This happened throughout the weekend without penalty, despite the very stern warning given at the drivers briefing.
Same deal i hear happened at Pucka, and as witnessed at the NSW State's at Port last year and the Yamaha at Coffs Harbour. I have the video of a Junior Clubby driver being put on his lid by a driver crashing off at Coffs Creek, re-entering the track dead last and then using the cut through to restart racing back in fourth place on the next lap. Again, no penalty was issued.
The Nationals at Townville had the right idea, blocking off the cut throughs. Either that or start penalising the cheats!
What disappointed me though watching the JNL and JNH races, was the repeated and deliberate use of the "cut through" at turn 1 by some drivers to gain track position and/or placings.
After using the cut through for no good reason, the driver/s in question would either:
- readdress to the same position, but gain track position tagged onto the back of the karts in front, rather than the 10 kart lengths back at the head of the next pack, or
- blatently slotting back in 5, 10 or 15 places higher up the order and continue racing.
This happened throughout the weekend without penalty, despite the very stern warning given at the drivers briefing.
Same deal i hear happened at Pucka, and as witnessed at the NSW State's at Port last year and the Yamaha at Coffs Harbour. I have the video of a Junior Clubby driver being put on his lid by a driver crashing off at Coffs Creek, re-entering the track dead last and then using the cut through to restart racing back in fourth place on the next lap. Again, no penalty was issued.
The Nationals at Townville had the right idea, blocking off the cut throughs. Either that or start penalising the cheats!
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I agree it was a busy bit of track. No official seemed to see this bit of track.
Also the so called PRE FINAL for JNL was a disgrace as the last half of the field had no chance to improve their positions
In hind sight the cut through should have been blocked off. It is a disgrace the way it is used to advance positions like it was. Same thing happened at the closed titles last year. Lauren got a hit near there and was heading that way but turned back and joined near last. Guess thats one of the reasons she's at the back. To honest. And of course the loser working on her kart that couldn't get it right all weekend. Massive lose in times after getting new tyres.
can we name names of culprites??? cos it was absolutely disgusting!! how bout i'll just put the numbers and classes, figure it out... 4 and 25 of JNL..... werent even involved in any incidents on turn one and went straight through to pick up handfuls of positions
same person whos in #4 in jnl???
Tim O'Reilly said:You won't need 12 guesses to figure out the JNH driver that put it into use in both heats and the pre-final.
Definetly agree the prefinal for JNL was crazy, whilst tactically smart, i dont think it was very fair for anybody really?
There have been cheats using cut-thru's for as long as I can remember, and whinging about it isn't going to stop some 'shifty' drivers deliberately using them to gain an advantage at the first sign of contact, and those who have been in the sport long enough know that the stewards never see anything.
I believe it is up to the clubs to be pro-active and block these cut-thru's with something substantial, like a tyre barrier, so these driver's don't have that option. If it means the roll-arounds take a little bit longer then so be it. Well done Townsville for doing just that.
Well hopefully this sort of thing can be easily detected and monitored once we all run transponders all the time in the new year.
I guess a couple of new rules will need to be created to cover it, but not that hard to make it work.
Quite simply any driver whose laps faster than about 0.5 sec of their before and after lap should have their finishing time adjusted by the discrepancy.
This would then redress the “mistake” and put them in their rightful place.
Makes one wonder why the stewards didn’t do this anyway – as it was a state title – they all would have had transponders!!!
And, being a state title one of the famous interstate grade 1 stewards could have fixed it under the new and now famous “morally right” rule.
What do you think??
Cheers
Ian
i don't think blocking the cut thru is right, but definitely being the only cut through it should have been better policed, especially with the number of officials present. It would not have been hard to note a kart using the cut through, check quickly where they came across the start/finish, and make sure they rejoin without advantage, IN A SAFE MANNER...... there were numerous occasions people trying to slot back in that disadvantaged karts coming back through aswell. As for the JNL restart, that was a joke..... the officials should have noted that and just used the results from the last completed lap befoe the red flag.
OHHHHHH tim... whats new with that one particular jnh driver?? hahaha
It's quite easy to identify "queue jumpers" in Mylaps. I used Tim's hints to note that the driver in question jumped from 20th to 3rd in one lap!
I used the same tools to confirm my suspicion of the identity of the dual-national champion that did it at pucka.
When looking at the results for one of the races, press "show lapchart", and then click on the drivers name...
yer everyone now knows col but fact is no matter how unfair it was is that the titles are sone and dusted adn this is just one thing the next hosts of state and national titles can make better
Col Fink said:It's quite easy to identify "queue jumpers" in Mylaps. I used Tim's hints to note that the driver in question jumped from 20th to 3rd in one lap!I used the same tools to confirm my suspicion of the identity of the dual-national champion that did it at pucka.When looking at the results for one of the races, press "show lapchart", and then click on the drivers name...
i wonder who they could heave been? "a dozen" and"pink" hmmm
Tim O'Reilly said:Don't know about that driver in JNH, but yes, my driver in the JNL prefinal whilst inside the top 10 on the 2nd lap ended up with tyre marks on the top of his helmet and bits of "pink" and green sticker kit on his kart from a driver that was in the repocharge race and started mid twenties in the prefinal but used the cut through and rejoined inside the top ten.You still have "a dozen" guesses for the JNH driver.