Irresponsible behavior at the cruise.

[craigayl]

I’ve been watching this thread in amazement and with concern. It is full of coulda, shoulda, woulda’s along with assertions of irresponsibility? Wow.

As a group, I have never met people more caring, safety conscious, and yes fun loving.

While the Cobrakelly post outlines a lot of undisputable facts, I find the editorial just plain wrong! No one was intentionally “irresponsible” or worse “stupid”. And an assertion that 100mph is unsafe, yet dumping the clutch at 3000rpm is OK? Someone needs a course in engineering dynamics…

A few situations that were the result of maybe “riding on the edge”? did point to some areas where improvements can be made, but minor “tweaks” are in order. Not major surgery.

The fact is, this event was born and has grown by people who have a passion for fast powerful cars that also have such a love for others, that they combined their sport with CF for the advantage to all. The only way to eliminate all risk, from car mishaps is to stop all car events or impose so many rules that public rides will be no longer. But then, that’s only half of the formula… By doing so, what has happened to CF research?

This years fling was an OUTSTANDING event! Change little. Remember the objective to have fun and support CF. Risk is a part of life, live with it, work with it. Second guessing it is not healthy…

Craig SPF1265