I will repeat the spirit of my comments to Gavin that I sent to him
offline:
I sincerely apologize for anyone's toes I stepped on by posting my
admittedly non-technical spectator's perspective comments. I was a
worker and I did a bunch of turn calling, mostly on the first day. But
this is my first MoM experience and I was in no way trying to suggest
that the judging or calling was not nearly perfect, or that I knew any
better. However, there were a few glitches in the lights over the
weekend and they do need repair or maintenance. Similarly, I also did
not intend to suggest that the Millenium that Gavin won was equivalent
to or as good as his own Y2K planes (or the specific one he crashed). I
was only trying to say that there was an irony there and that he did get
a brand new plane to at least partially offset his loss within one
working day!
I should have kept my big fat mouth shut in regards to the particular
impact the lights may or may not have had with regard to the standings.
It was not my call to say anything like that, but as a spectator, I
definitely wondered what happened on that heat. Perhaps I dug too deep
and perhaps I should have kept what I heard to myself. The way I looked
at it was that it was all part of the race. Sh*t clearly definitely
happens with MoM racing. You take the bad with the good and that is
part of the excitement. It didn't seem unfair to me so I didn't think
reporting what I saw and heard in this case was inappropriate. But it
WAS inappropriate and I am sorry for that.
I should have made it more clear that my reports were intended for
enjoyment and not perfect accuracy. The spirit of my reports was to
capture the excitement and enjoyment that I and many others experienced
and to try to bring that to everybody else that wasn't there. I was
trying to be as technically accurate as I could, but like a good
reporter, I SHOULD have checked my facts more carefully. Please enjoy
my reports for what they were and leave the technical reporting to the
CD. If Gavin says it was BS, then it WAS BS, OKAY!!
-- James
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