Hi All
Now that Is all over and had time to think about the race, a incident came to mind.
I felt it needed to be shared.
I cant remember which heat #, but was a twin heat.
On shore incident perspective
Don Ferrette and Charles Siler were coming around turn 3 and 4 when it "appeared" that Don cut off Charles.
Damage was done to both boats.
Don had a huge hole in the tub and Charle's left sponson and tube were ripped off and torn up.
The Cd's proceeded to disqualify Don for cutting hm off.
This is the best part ..... Charles stepped in and said it wasn't Don's fault and that he had problems with his steering. As you can imagine both sides are upset, but not one bad word was said.. True Sportsmanship on both sides,Kudos.
The Aftermath
Don in true racer fashion didn't complain, He put his head down and proceeded to fix his boat and I believe even offered to help Charles, but guess what..Charles had help!!.
Stu Barr Stepped in and provided a set of Crapshooter Sponsons (keep in mind that they are all running the same class) Classic case of sportsmanship.
While Charles is figuring out how to get a set of Crapshooter sponsons on his SGX (that's kinda funny all by itself) here comes Andy Brown to the rescue!!
Andy grabs the sponson and rebuilds it in his trailer and gets it back to Charles for the next heat,Again a Classic case of sportsmanship.
I just wanted to share my story and reiterated why I love this hobby so much.
Thanks for reading
Tim