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Beating Scott to it…
Scott won a judgment against M this morning. Robert Patton, Fred Switzer, and myself were there in supporting roles. The odds of Scott actually getting anything from this aren’t good, but as Scott said this morning, “One problem at a time”.
Sometimes the good guys win!
I’m very grateful to Jim, Fred and Robert for spending their morning in an Atlanta area courthouse. They even did most of the talking. M did not show up for the suit.
There were two challenges today. One, convincing the judge to drive on with the trial even tho the letter from the court to M bounced back. Back in May I had to “serve” him the suit papers at his father’s house. He’s a tricky slime ball.
The second challenging was getting the judge to buy off on $10k worth of payments to M and damages. And she did.
Pls don’t write the guy’s name in this thread. I don’t want this thread easily found until I’m thru his 30 day appeal period.
ukrbmw wrote:
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On a different topic, how was the car at RA this past weekend?[/quote]
I’m pleased to report that my motor did just fine this weekend. There were other issues tho.
I’ve lost 3 secs at RA. I knew that I was going to be rusty, but I didn’t think that I’d be THIS rusty.
My diff died. It was just fine when I tested it maybe 10 track days ago, but now it’s an open diff. Boy those fail in a hurry. I bought a rebuild kit from Chuck.
My student hurt his car, a 2008 Audi. We were hopping the curb at turn 3 and he was landing with his wheels not centered. I addressed the issue with him over and over again with increasing severity for 1 1/2 days. I even had him go thru 10min of mental rehearsing in the paddock. And then he put his car in the wall. Was pretty much only scratched paint, but it had to be traumatic for him. I really felt bad about it. Instead of trying so hard to get him to figure the curb-hop out, I should have recognized that he wasn’t getting it and had him go around the curb instead.
I pulled a really bone-head pass during a “pass anywhere with a point-by” instructor session. As soon as I was committed I realized that I’d just wiped out 6 months of “Scott is safe and considerate” goodwill. I really felt bad about that one too.
So the motor was good, the diff rebuild shouldn’t be a problem, and I was a problem child.
Ranger wrote:
Having ridden with you, I must say your line through T3 is weird. It’s like half way between the school line and what I would call the faster racing line.
FYI, I am not sure what you were trying to teach your student but I always land with wheels turned when I am jumping the curb.
csrow wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
Having ridden with you, I must say your line through T3 is weird. It’s like half way between the school line and what I would call the faster racing line.
FYI, I am not sure what you were trying to teach your student but I always land with wheels turned when I am jumping the curb.[/quote]
I just watched some RA Skeen videos and I see now what you were trying to tell me about “straight” on 3. I wish I’d watched those last week.
And re. wheels turned on 3. What I was trying to teach my student was to do it safely. I wouldn’t be comfortable teaching a DE student to bound over a curb and land with wheels intentionally askew. He can practice that stuff when he’s solo and I don’t have to feel bad about him hurting his car.
I’ve learned more about M’s appeal options and he really doesn’t have much. So I’m going to go ahead and file the paperwork that will lead to me, the sheriff and a moving van showing up at his place.
Take lot of pictures - especially of him crying. A video would be better (and good for your protection, in case…)
csrow wrote:
A video would be priceless. There is an AlexM*.com website put up by some guy in WI that M pissed off. I was not able to contact the website guy, but it sure would be a nice place to host video excerpts of M running around crying “no, no, you can’t do that”, while the nice moving men take all of his stuff.