The ToCA mentality is the problem. Any other FRL series everyone shows up just to have a good time. In ToCA it's constant bitching about every little detail: this car's too fast, this driver's too fast, Furi's pulling bull:censored: to benefit his team, this car's too slow, this track is horrible. Everyone drives like it's a race for their life, racecraft is atrocious from nigh-on the entire field (and I'm including myself in that).
We don't take it overly seriously like certain groups of racers in these forums, but the way we approach things anymore is just as bad. Instead of showing up to race, we spend most of our time trying to keep others from knowing how fast we are. In S9 everyone went full-out in preseason testing, and it led to the best season in series history imo. We managed to get a good BoP, took out the OP Scirocco before it ended up killing everything in sight, and a ton of people won races, and even when you didn't win it was a ton of fun. This season there's a ton of people sandbagging in testing (I've done a 46.5 on my own, but I've kept it over 47.0 in race rooms, I won't name any other names for now).
It's just not fun anymore.
- you did a good job for what it was, podium at Brands end I think?
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