Post by sonic33 on Dec 15, 2008 14:53:46 GMT 12
In my very humble opinion the decision to put Ryan Smith on the infield was definately the correct one. The prob was it was about two meets and a couple feature races too late.
He regularly pushes the boundaries with his racing especially with stopping after the red lights come on. He made lots of ground on the weekend under reds (one particular time from the start finish line to mid turn 1 and 2) and when the officials asked him to move back he went back about 3 meters at a time after each request.
As for being fed into backmarkers I saw it differently. The car that was in front of him used the back marker to perfection. He was running a line just out side of the back marker, who was on the poleline, and there fore Smith should have backed off and went around not plowed into the back of the backmarker.
As I said my opinion, without video evidence, but I think the right call. He is a quick driver and doesn't have to resort to those tactics to win. I believe he was relegated a couple of meets back when he closed up under reds and then beat Cole Wood on the restart for a feature race win. Newspaper results suggested that Wood was given the win.
He regularly pushes the boundaries with his racing especially with stopping after the red lights come on. He made lots of ground on the weekend under reds (one particular time from the start finish line to mid turn 1 and 2) and when the officials asked him to move back he went back about 3 meters at a time after each request.
As for being fed into backmarkers I saw it differently. The car that was in front of him used the back marker to perfection. He was running a line just out side of the back marker, who was on the poleline, and there fore Smith should have backed off and went around not plowed into the back of the backmarker.
As I said my opinion, without video evidence, but I think the right call. He is a quick driver and doesn't have to resort to those tactics to win. I believe he was relegated a couple of meets back when he closed up under reds and then beat Cole Wood on the restart for a feature race win. Newspaper results suggested that Wood was given the win.
