I joined a tuning session yesterday, the first time in months. I go in, and immediately state 'Finally made it!'. I realised that doing so could throw off some drivers' concentrations. I quickly realise NO ONE is running. Everyone is sitting. Only a couple of drivers were on the the track. Those drivers seemed to be the veterans as they had manners, ettiquete, respect, and were generally fun to be around. However there were only 4 drivers including me on the track racing. I don't knw what everyone else was doing. I left after 15 minutes.
This I'm about to say isn't related to drama, but has a bit to do with why people stay idle on a track so often.
Most forget that touge is more about the drive - the connection between car, driver and pavement, and sharing the experience with like-minded individuals - than it is about lap time.
My biggest gripe with the touge community as a whole - and you are all guilty - is that every lobby becomes a stupid time attack.
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I speak for myself with the following. The Nürburgring is a double-edged sword. You all focus so much on tuning for fastest laps. NOBODY TUNES FOR FEEL, ANYMORE. Shaving hundredths of a second on a section or corner is the goal for the one-track-minded. There are seldom any actual battles, mock or official, going on. So when I'm by the pits waiting for someone to run with, I get bored before long because everyone is running hot laps.
And when those guys are done running laps, they'd chill in the pits or leave. Taking the fun along with them.
I don't see anyone running Matterhorn. Or Deep Forest, or Trial Mountain, or Bathurst, or Ascari, or anything else!
You all complain about the drama, but nobody says a word on how nobody is doing any battles!
Why do we not have a CORE/SIDE going on? With all the available tracks for us to host Cat'n'Mouse battles, why the heck does everyone only run Grip Gambler at Nürburgring?
You can blame PD all you want for the lack of a promised course editor, but if you want to know the reason the Touge Community is idling... Look in the mirror.
The Doctor has spoken.