Dave Cole is backtracking. Covering his tracks. The electronic desert race tracking fail at the "Fuct Festival", the MINT 400 2019, is now LEGENDARY!
On March 13, 2019, Dave Cole issued this commentary:
"For everyone arguing that any technology is supposed to make us safer in the car...have you thought about the scenario where the technology doesnt work and you become so desensitized that you miss clear and evident indicators that should precipate a change in your normal driving style.
From all accounts onsite. Racers had a mile of dust free unobstructed views of multiple safety trucks...flaggers...and HELICOPTERS on the ground.
If they had RT they wouldnt have behaved ANY differently.
The CORE tenant in offroad racing is drive what you see.
I agree RT provides better functionality. But it has to work on 100% of the vehicles, automatically, and fail proof...consistently before you can count on it.
NONE of trackers work 100%
Serious question for RT..Stella or whoever is listening...can you push warnings to a race car. My understanding is that you are using RFID to sense proximity and thats how push to pass and stopped car warnings work.
For that to work, the car stopped or in front has to have an operational unit and perhaps have signaled they are stopped.
If that unit has failed...or say you have a known natural obstical or maybe a spectator stuck on course...can you force a warning signal by Geo cache area and alert the approaching vehicle as it enters that zone?
That would be winning.
I could push yellow flag alerts on my short course tracks if it was accuate enough.
Sorry hate to break up this internet dramafest with actual reality."
***In response to all the heat generated by racers after the event, Dave Cole (Ultra 4) (4454), coughed up his "reality" puke. The heat from the racing community is now on HIGH. The racers know Dave Cole and the Martelli Brothers are about the Benjamins. Racer Safety, not so much!
His pathetic iteration is isolated here in quotes with [our perspective].
We'll spend a few months on this work, considering its importance to the safety of the racing community.
Dave Cole: "For everyone arguing that any technology is supposed to make us safer in the car...have you thought about the scenario where the technology doesnt work and you become so desensitized that you miss clear and evident indicators that should precipate(sp) a change in your normal driving style".
[Dave, we know you meant to say, participate and not precipate. The point Dave is making is an attempt to confuse the issue and blame racers for the problems associated with the failure of the 'Yellow Brick' Tracking in the MINT 400 2019, what we're calling, the FUCT Festival]
"From all accounts onsite. Racers had a mile of dust free unobstructed views of multiple safety trucks...flaggers...and HELICOPTERS on the ground."
[Dave, you were commenting on the racers giving you the thumbs down on YOUR tracking service that Mad Media used on THEIR MINT 400. Please, quit trying to change the subject and/or make your FAIL into something other than what it truly is, a steaming pile of dog crap. MORE>>>]
"If they had RT [Dave is initializing here so to not promote the actual company Racing Trax] they wouldnt have behaved ANY differently."
[The racers know what a load of crap in Dave's pants this statement is! Listen Dave, you fucked up, pushing YOUR screwed-up tracking company and pushing it on the MINT event]
"The CORE tenant in offroad racing is drive what you see".
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"I agree RT provides better functionality. But it has to work on 100% of the vehicles, automatically, and fail proof...consistently before you can count on it".
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"NONE of trackers work 100%".
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"Serious question for RT..Stella or whoever is listening...can you push warnings to a race car. My understanding is that you are using RFID to sense proximity and thats how push to pass and stopped car warnings work".
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"For that to work, the car stopped or in front has to have an operational unit and perhaps have signaled they are stopped".
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"If that unit has failed...or say you have a known natural obstical(sp) or maybe a spectator stuck on course...can you force a warning signal by Geo cache area and alert the approaching vehicle as it enters that zone?"
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"That would be winning. I could push yellow flag alerts on my short course tracks if it was accuate(sp) enough".
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"Sorry hate to break up this internet dramafest with actual reality".
[C'Mon Dave! What a pussified call-out! You ain't gonna break up anything, in fact, this is now gonna last FOREVER.
This is Life & Death. The families of desert racers are counting on SCORE, BITD and YOU to do the right thing! "Actual Reality"!
A MINT 400 racer stated to us about this topic. 'Actual Reality' Dave!
Az Racer said: "(The MINT 400 2019) Was 100% about money.....Racing Trax did not offer a kick back so they offered to lower the cost. They still didn’t meet the $125 per racer price so they took the cheap route and charged racers the full amount $250. This was The Mint 400.....NICKLE AND DIME RACE! More racers higher fees, more vendors higher fees, more money for the promoters. They squeezed every single dime they could out of this race. So much ASS KISSING proxies making excuses (online). Let’s just hope they learn not to be so greedy and keep their customers interests to heart! It’s hard to screw up the Mint 400 and they didn’t. It was a great event but they sent a strong message to the racers that they don’t care what you (the racers) think...they(the MINT 400 'race owners') are out to make as much money as possible and your going to pay for it because where else are you going to go".
Real 'Actual Reality'.
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First Published March 15, 2019
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