Board Thread:Social and Race Teams Threads/@comment-27109924-20160730043903/@comment-27109924-20160805001433

The cream has risen to the top!:) Under the circumstances, absolutely astounding effort Team!!:) Darn hard challenge this.. Boring tracks (Indy or Dytona), and boring slippery cars..

Having made early good start, somewhere around 80th for many hours, the team lead by GH and TK made a brave call half way to push, to try and get final Screenshot 2016-08-02-10-12-46 com.ea.games.r3 row top 100. Monkeys have made the difference between 100th and 101 sizeable:( Not sure i agreed with that, and fearing a burnout for the key grouo of our racers, i watched them push on not able to contribute for half of the challenge.. Latter i became tad upset by the lack of communications and effort from the bottom of the team. I know i said "do the best you can when you can", but when circumstance change i also change my opinion. We have an incredible core foundation of a strong team, with people dedicated beyond expectations. GH even went and got a new internet set up and tablet. To him alone we owe little bit more than amateur slogan maybe:) TK decided to push on when we slipped out of top 100. Lez hurricaned back late, Larry drove in his work and sleep:) Mid table performances were as pleasing to me, really solid and inspiring stuff.. Not everyone wants to, or even can, match the crazy GH miles:)

Disappointingly, several people didnt contribute much at all. 100kms was worth 25min effort with an unserviced car. Some had valid reasons, and the team happily accepts that.. denV left himself after challenge ended, his stats were the lowest. Some seem to have raced just the Gauntlet, despite that running for a week..

Team has hence arrived at somewhat of a cross roads..Are we going to stay ultra competitive or still at 'do what you can' legue which can lead to complacency and lazy efforts from few? Do we take on new more vigorous and keen members?

Personally i like the challenge of fighting for the bedt we can achieve.. But still knowing what battles to pick.. (i would not have picked this one:) For that we need at least 2 new solid contributors. There will be 2 new spots as i will also let go Kevin back to the lower leagues due to a second low performance in a row, and absolutely no communications as to why.

Perhaps IRA racing has become too good too fast? Not sure where the team wants to go, i would like to keep it all nice and friendly, but then it has to balanced between the amazing efforts and hard work that some put in..

Team, your thoughts and council awaits..

(apologies for not being more elegant and descriptive, as this effort really deserved that, but im running out the doors:)