To the drivers that try their hardest to show up for each race and persevere through pain, cramping, boredom, tiredness, griping, and the occasional confusion, this is not targeted to you and I want to thank you deeply for helping me learn and make this series better.
If you look at the original post (OP), you'll find that there are 22 drivers signed up for this series. If you were outside looking in, you'd think that having 22 drivers would be a great thing. Neverending competition, constant battles to stay in the top of your class. That would be a utopian paradise. For those that are among those 22 and are as frustrated as I am, I don't blame you. Of those 22, only 15 have made any points attempt so far. Of those 15, only 4 have started every race. I understand that several of you guys like to sit around and watch cars run an oval for hours, and I understand that there are a few that are in other series that overlap. But of all of those people, only
@Whitetail has had the ability to say "Hey I won't be there." If he can take the time from his schedule to be in a room with me and say "I will" or "I won't be there", the best you can do is answer a PSN message when I ask. For those that haven't made a points start yet, you have until Autumn Ring on March 22 to make a start or you're being barred from competing at all. The ignoring, the goofing off in official sessions, the nonsense that happens during practice on Friday has to stop. Drivers are not wanting to race because someone is either drifting or doing donuts or whatever, or someone is wrecking them because they don't know what serious is. I don't know at this point what I need to do to get people with common sense in here. I've let you all determine the calendar, I've spent hours in rooms letting everyone practice as long as they could, I've appeased to some extent every complaint that has come to me. I spend every Sunday making sure that the results are posted quickly and thoroughly so that everyone can spend more time focusing on what lies ahead either elsewhere or in VRR. There are dedicated people, like
@NinjaEvo who has been the only full time GT300 driver, and
@NearCptNitro who has a schedule about as busy as mine, and
@MrRossy46 who brings everything he has to the table every time he hits the track. We need more people like these three. We need people like
@Whitetail who are able to help make this place better by giving advice and by racing clean. We need those kind of people. I've seen what every single person signed up is capable of when you are racing elsewhere. Can you please bring that same 100% best quality here? That is all I ask. That alone will make this series thrive more than I could ever be happy for. For those that continually show up and/or help me improve the series, I thank you sincerely and gratefully. For everyone else, I challenge you to do the same.
