Hoop,
At leaast I think it is Hoop who was complaining.
I am the driver of ITC 22, and I remember the start quite well. We were gapped way back from the mid- pack as I recall mainly because at least some people in front of me failed to keep up when we left from the false grid and yes by the time we were at the end of the uphill esses, many of us were at 9/10s trying to catch the pack on the pace lap. Still there were those who were lollygagging.
If when we finally got to hogpen you had looked to your right, you would have seen a corner worker (sharp, heads-up individual whoever he was) giving us a green flag signal, i.e., he was moving his arm in a figure 8 motion to let us backmarkers know the green had been dropped. The race had begun. That's when I nailed it. We are not NASCAR! We do not have to wait until we cross start finish to begin racing - we race when the flag drops, regardless of where we are on the track. I did not jump the start; I paid attention to what was going on so I could gain as much as I could with what was given me.
Before you start throwing mud, make sure you know what your're talking about, and report it accurately, and no, the stewarts saw nothing wrong with my start, because there was nothing wriong with my start.
And I love the large groups - always somebody to race with even when you have half a transmission halfway through the race.
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