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
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
. 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.
![Shrug :shrug:](./images/smilies/shrug.gif)
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.
![Geek :geek:](./images/smilies/icon_e_geek.gif)