Alright, time to enter the discussion
I agree that I drove at Nyrporl in such a way that it would be against the rules defined by puttz. And of course, technically akouk would have been in the finals if puttz had evaluated in such a way that my cutting would have been punished like Bukas cutting by a 1 second penalty.
Talking about the cutting rule itself, I agree with Ivo that it's quite stupid. Here a suggestion for puttz for the future: When I held my Trans-Am competition, I thought about shortcutting and came to the conclusion that the tracks where a bit space is left are meant to be driven by cutting a bit here and there. However, one of the tracks (Road Atlanta) had placed the checkpoints in such a way that it would have theoretically been possible to drive over a small piece of grass beyond the kerbs. I avoided this by asking Areen to add some cones there
. Of course it's up to the competition organiser what cutting rule he imposes but I think that most of the racers like to have something like "do whatever you want" so that the track's obstacles limit the cutting.
By doing this you also avoid discussions like "what is considered as a part of the track, is that a kerb" and so on.
In general I think the best thing to do at this moment would be to either repeat the semi-final or to give akouk a chance to race in the finals. But seeing that he doesn't want to race because of the bad organisation, it gets a bit more difficult. On the one hand it would be just fair to give akouk a place in the finals, because he followed the rules and I didn't. On the other hand, puttz has not punished my cutting.
In this case I'm not actually sure what's the best thing to do. However, let's imagine I really win the championship and maybe even GWR yearly ranking. It would just feel wrong, because I won by a somehow unfair method. And I would rather like to be only second in year ranking/3rd or 4th in championship than first with a bad taste. And even the second place for this championship feels a bit wrong, because akouk was probably better, but I took advantage of cutting and therefor breaking the rules. At the moment, I feel a bit like the guilty, but I don't want to feel like that.
Of course this is not a solution for the problem, but my PoV
I wonder what puttz will say about all this.