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.