Mike,
I thought a couple of your comments yesterday easily could have fallen into the "arrogant" and "flippant" category, and had other parties made them to someone, you may have actually taken them to task on it.
You are entitled to your opinion on the matter, and free to express it. But as the old expression goes "sometimes its not what you say, but how you say it". I think that applies here.
I think in general you tend to be far more closely aligned to track owners and promoters on issues than you are racers. I think that probably stems from all the time you spent working for various racing organizations and speedways, I'm sure you have a lot of close friends and associates who are still involved with these places and its natural to side with them in these instances.
As I stated yesterday the expression of differing opinions is fine. It's healthy. And it should continue to go on. The thing I found inexcusable was when you basically told people who didn't agree with the speedway to keep their cars at home in the garage. The last thing a moderator of a forum whose stated goal is for the betterment of auto racing needs to do is to tell racers to leave their race car at home. Like KT said yesterday, far too many have gone that route already. The focus should be on finding solutions to keep racers on the track, and encourage new ones. And if part of that is done through using public forums to put pressure on track owners/promoters etc to fix problems like purse structure or rules issues, then so be it. If the purpose of this forum is going to be to tell racers to either like it or leave it, then this forum might as well cease to exist, because it won't be doing a damn bit of good to furthering the promotion of, or improving the quality of, auto racing in this area.
