First of all, huge thanks to Paul for the points he's bringing up, you're a great guy. No need to stick your neck out like that for us, but we totally appreciate it.
Guys. This is racing - what happened to, "let the best man win"?
Grand-Am, Rolex, FIA, etc. Belongs to no one. Pure has had tons of people trying to blantanly copy entire OP's from us, what did we do? Just let them fail if you really know what you're doing is better, because doing anything else belittles us and puts us in a light we don't need to be in. Remember*What competition was good for? To make each other better and not settle for less!
In fact, asking us to step down from creating anything goes against the very most important ideal a community should hold, progress.
Pure doesn't attract our drivers only because of a name. We worked hard for our reputation and respect each and every one else that has a passion for what we do. That's why I wanted to join Rolex in the first place, not to "check you guys out" but just because a series this dedicated is the only grounds for what I consider a good one, and you have it. And you will attract more drivers, and I'm sure some will come to Rusty's Grand-Am series as well, as long as he puts the work in with our support. Both series can be successful, there's absolutely no reason at all to think Pure is better, we may be more serious or strict (that's just our style), but the dedication, as I see it, is the same all around between us. So why not embrace it and let every one race in peace?
I have no ill will against anyone, trust me. In my perfect world, all series would succeed, that's all that Pure wants. To make sim racing bigger, not to live in some ego bubble and just call it a day. And you guys kept talking about the Grand-Am series like it was "a Pure series," no; there's only been two Pure series, JGTS, and GATE, that's it. The rest are just series our members created, sanctioned by Pure. We're a sanctioning body committed to making quality sim racing more easily available to all, so please don't try and stand in the way of that.
Rather, why don't we both continue on our respective paths, even get together and discuss our ideas sometime, "hey, that race weekend you had last weekend was interesting, how did you solve the gridding problem" "oh it was easy, we just did this and that" "awesome, I might try it myself" *"cool, good luck man, let me know how it goes"
That is how our conversations with competing racing leagues using the same cars or racing series go 90% of the time. This has been the only exception.
P.S. I noticed people bringing up the Daytona 2.4 HRS spot race Dr_Watson did a while back. Someone said that we had intended to turn the concept into a fully fledged series. Well we did, it's called "CALM"
. You could make that and it wouldn't impact on any other series, I'm fairly certain of that.
