Sportsmanship

Most everyone knows that I served as a co-driver, co-pilot, whatever you want to call it, during the 2017 Powder Puff Race Towards a Cure.

I had an absolute blast and hope to have some sort of racing come in to my life again.

This was the first time for both me and my driver.  We had very little truck time, but we were excited to get out there and do what we could.  I understand this was a race, but it was a trace for a cause, so mostly we wanted to get out and have fun.

Our practice time was Friday afternoon from 3 pm until 4 pm.  Practice was cut short for us, because rolled on lap 3, but that is ok.  The truck was up and running in plenty of time for our first race on Saturday, which was schedule for 11:50 am.  We geared up, I was nervous as fuck, but I came there to be a co-driver and that is what I was going to do damnit.  We were second in the start line order.  They waved the flag and we were off.  I won’t bore you with the details of the entire race because this post is about sportsmanship and I feel that a particular co-driver of another truck must have left hers at home.  Again, I know this was a race but it was for a cause and not all of us have been racing as long as this truck.

They were on our ass and “honking” which is what they do when they want you to let them by. Fine!  I get it, but this track was not very wide and there were only a few places where we can get moved over so that someone could pass.  We finally came to one of those spots and moved to the right so that this truck could pass on the left and when I looked over, I saw the co-driver flipping us off.  That sent me over the edge.  Why in the world would she do that?  If I was a driver of a truck and I found out that my co-driver had done that to someone, I would have lost my shit on her.  That is NOT cool and definitely not good sportsmanship by any means.  Sorry we slowed you down and sorry you had to wait for us to move over but really, why do you feel the middle finger was necessary?

Is this ok in this industry?  Does this happen a lot?  Should I get used to it and let it go?