On Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 10:47:44 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
> On 2023-12-21 06:55, Thomas E. wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 9:44:27 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
> >> On 2023-12-17 16:38, Thomas E. wrote:
> >>> On Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 1:40:59 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
> >>>> On 2023-12-16 17:09, Thomas Elam wrote:
> >>>>> On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 6:32:28 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:
> >>>>>> What a true piece of shit you are, Thomas Elam. On 2023-12-16
> >>>>>> 11:30, Thomas E. wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> He literally has not raced once in Formula F since 2021
> >>>>>>>>>> and not at all since 2022 when he raced in Formula
> >>>>>>>>>> Continental once.
> >>>>>>>>>>> BTW, I see that Google Groups posting is being
> >>>>>>>>>>> discontinued as of 2/15/24. I'll not be moving to a
> >>>>>>>>>>> new provider unless I can find a free one.
> >>>>>>>>>> Wow. You brag about how well you've organized your
> >>>>>>>>>> financial affairs...
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> ...but a few bucks a month is going to stop you from
> >>>>>>>>>> posting.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Eternal September, Little Shit.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> My point was that in 2021 Alan did come back (season
> >>>>>>>>> champ too) and you were out until the last weekend when
> >>>>>>>>> he did not race. You did not race against him. Very
> >>>>>>>>> convenient.
> >>>>>>>> My younger brother was diagnosed with cancer in early April
> >>>>>>>> of 2021, Little Shit. Esophageal cancer that had no
> >>>>>>>> symptoms until it was far FAR too late to do anything about
> >>>>>>>> it.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> So my life had a few other things to occupy it for pretty
> >>>>>>>> much the entire racing season.
> >>>>>> Unacknowledged here...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ...but you KNEW that...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ...and instead chose to "forget" it and imagine that I avoided
> >>>>>> coming out because Alan McColl came back.
> >>>> Step up, Liarboy. Admit the truth.
> >> What a pissant you are.
> >>>>>>>> I signed up for the final race of the year just to keep
> >>>>>>>> myself "current" for getting a racing license, and I don't
> >>>>>>>> sign up for races based on who is going to be there.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> OK, just for argument let's say the Honda engine had
> >>>>>>>>> nothing to do with your improved performance. Then it was
> >>>>>>>>> the better car, not you, that was responsible. You said
> >>>>>>>>> so yourself, remember?
> >>>>>>>> What exactly did I say? I remember, but do you?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I can easily afford to pay for Usenet. Past experience
> >>>>>>>>> with paying via NewsAgent or something like that was not
> >>>>>>>>> a great experience. Missing posts, and short histories.
> >>>>>>>>> Got one you would recommend?
> >>>>>>>> "I'll not be moving to a new provider unless I can find a
> >>>>>>>> free one."
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As I recall you said the car was lighter and maybe another
> >>>>>>> reason or two you bought it, like it had Honda power.
> >>>>>> And here we go again.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yes: it was lighter. The first car I bought was overweight due
> >>>>>> to an extensive rebuild after a serious crash by the owner who
> >>>>>> first brought it to Canada in 1990 or 1991. The "other reason
> >>>>>> or two" is you inventing more shit out of the whole cloth aside
> >>>>>> from me commenting that I wanted a car where spare parts were
> >>>>>> more easily obtained.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As for the Honda, this is you once again trying to insinuate
> >>>>>> that it somehow made me faster on the track.
> >>>> No response? Shocking.
> >> No balls.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> As for your record against Dave McKay. It took some time, but
> >>>>>>> I calculate 2013-2023 you finished ahead in 13 of 51 races
> >>>>>>> where you both started and finished. I excluded all DNS and
> >>>>>>> DNF instances. By year:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Year Baker McKay 2022 0 0 2021 0 0 2020 0 0 2019 6 10 2018 3
> >>>>>>> 4 2017 0 7 2016 0 4 2015 3 8 2014 1 3 2013 0 2
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Totals 13 38 13/51*100%=25%
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If you wish to dispute please supply numbers including year,
> >>>>>>> months and race number. There are only OW races.
> >>>>>> There's nothing that needs to be disputed, you lying sack of
> >>>>>> shit.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I started racing in 2013. It's hardly surprising that I
> >>>>>> wouldn't be finishing ahead of someone with much more
> >>>>>> experience.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But just for the record, in 2019, when both of us finished,
> >>>>>> the results were 10 for Dave to 5 times for me, so you can't
> >>>>>> even get it right when you're trying to denigrate me. But you
> >>>>>> want to class me as some kind of "also-ran" where you happily
> >>>>>> declare Dave "elite".
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Well in those meetings, in sessions where we both set a time:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I out-qualified Dave 10 times of of 14.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I had the faster race lap in 12 of the 15 races we both
> >>>>>> finished.
> >>>> Couldn't address this, huh?
> >>>>
> >>>> You lack any integrity.
> >> None at all.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So, yes: Dave beat me fair and square over the season, but even
> >>>>>> he will admit that if I hadn't been taken out by a driver
> >>>>>> trying a suicide dive bomb on the second weekend of the year,
> >>>>>> the results could very well have gone the other way.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The last few years are not the only times you have not raced
> >>>>>>> on a regular basis liarboy! Must be terrible to not have the
> >>>>>>> resources to be in the fray on a regular basis. How much did
> >>>>>>> your family contribute to the new #21?
> >>>>>> Where, other than your fevered imagination, do you get the idea
> >>>>>> my family as contributed anything to either of my racing car
> >>>>>> purchases, you lying sack of shit?
> >> Oh, I forgot this little bit of weasel bullshit.
> >>
> >> Have you got anything to back up your insinuations, pissant?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Right, I counted one of Dave's DNS as a win for you. So it was 5
> >>>>> out of 16, 32% for you and 68% for Dave. Not much better than
> >>>>> your overall record and not much better than 2014-2015.
> >>>>> Apparently, years of experience did not do much for you. There is
> >>>>> an old saying, when deep in a hole maybe you better stop
> >>>>> digging.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, that is your pattern of lies. Cherry pick data to make
> >>>>> yourself look good, leaving out anything that makes you look bad.
> >>>>> Like 2016 and 2017. Like trying to turn one fast lap and bragging
> >>>>> it into the equivalent of a championship season. How do we know
> >>>>> if 2019 was an off year for Dave or not? We don't. Floer did not
> >>>>> race in 2019, so no other benchmark.
> >>>> Darren Grandbois (the previous year's Formula Vee champion) raced
> >>>> in an even more modern FF than mine...
> >>>>
> >>>> ...and in the 5 races where we both finished, he finished behind
> >>>> me every time.
> >> Didn't address this either.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, I did a little figuring, and it's hilarious that you can't see
> >>>> how even Dave and I actually were.
> >>>>
> >>>> There were 14 races Dave and I both completed, totalling 211 laps.
> >>>>
> >>>> In 5 of those races, the difference in our finishing times was less
> >>>> than a second; 4 of them less than half a second.
> >>>>
> >>>> The aggregate difference in our finishes was a total of 41.366
> >>>> seconds, or 0.196 seconds per lap...
> >>>>
> >>>> ...in my favour.
> >>>>> Then too there is your long-standing tactic of branding anyone
> >>>>> who disagrees as a liar.
> >>>> I brand liars "liar", Liarboy.
> >>>>
> >>>> You worked to earn that.
> >>> Well, well, in 6 hours you accuse of not answering.
> >> What the hell does that even mean, Liarboy?
> >>> It's one thing to
> >>> run fast laps, it's another to come in ahead of other drivers. What
> >>> you just proved is that you can run faster laps than McKay, but the
> >>> results say that he finishes ahead of you 75% of the time.
> >> Your own argument is that it was 68%, Liarboy...
> >>
> >> ...but the actual number was 9 times he finished ahead of when we both
> >> finished (I had a DNF on July 28 you miscounted) and 5 times when I
> >> finished ahead of him. 9/14 is 64%.
> >>> That
> >>> PROVES that Dave is the better RACE driver.
> >> I never said he wasn't, Liarboy. But when we're both winning races
> >> against each other and on balance I was farther ahead (and on the same
> >> track under the same conditions, my best lap was a full 0.7
> >> seconds--almost 1%——better than his), it does suggest parity to anyone
> >> without an ax to grind.
> >>> I am not accepting your
> >>> cherry-picked data.
> >> Look it up yourself:
> >>
> >> <https://speedhive.mylaps.com>
> >>> But, I am willing to admit that McKay is not the
> >>> same standard as Floer and McColl. So, I am demoting McKay to the top
> >>> of the second tier and you are now #2 second best tier driver.
> >> But you've been insisting he's top tier.
> >>
> >> And until you realized that I regularly beat Olov, you were insisting HE
> >> was top tier, too.
> >>
> >> Weird, huh?
> >>
> >> If I beat Doug next year, will he become "second tier" too?
> >>
> >> But this has always been about your bullshit, uniformed, ignorant claim
> >> that I'm not any good at all. Must I go back and provide the quotes,
> >> asshole?
> >>
> >> :-)
> > LOL. Fast laps and qualifying positions don't win races or championship points. IF you race next year AND beat Floer or McColl on a regular basis you will join that elite group. I'll send you an email.
> > Why does what I think even matter to you anyway?
> It amuses me, Liarboy.
>
> I love how you twist yourself into knots trying to avoid the obvious.