During the 2008 Kyoto 500, someone who had retired from the race on Lap 24 or so, had started a private chat in Ventrilo with a car still in the race, this was around lap 50 or so. The guy who he sent the message to was still in the race, in Turn Two. The Private Chat Message overtook his game, and LFS thought he was still turning, and it sent him into the inside wall, catapulted him, and went "Wrong route" to spec. Whoops !
Note to self: disable private chat acceptance while racing in major events. :-)
And I was the Race Director during the event where someone said "The Race Director told me to crash." Be it known that I did not tell anyone to crash. It was a for-fun (off-the-cuff, as it were) 150 or so lap oval FO8 race, and a few of us in Vent were joking that someone should crash so a caution would come out. I said, "Maybe I'll bring out a competition yellow to bring it all together," but when a few drivers said they didn't want that, I dropped the idea. Abotu a minute later, someone did crash (accidental, not intentional), and I had to bring out the SC. The guy who said I told him to crash thought that the crash was intentional to bring out the SC, and actuall intentionally took the guy who crashed out while they were catching the SC queue. Yeah, I did ban him from NDR events for a nice long while.
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