Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Both cars went into the corner side by side. 05 left room for 02, but 02 appeared to hit the curbing and push a bit, then ran into the side of the 05 and spun. Racing incident, no penalty.

mprEdited replay attached.

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We wish to report an incident between car 02 and car 05 on lap 16 in the complex entering the oval. Car 02 was executing a pass on car 05 for position. Car 02 was completely alongside car 05 at the apex of the turn and was on the proper racing line when car 05 hit him in the side forcing him off the track and into a spin.

Quote from BenjiMC :

The 9 penalties at the start were given for teams cutting pit exit lines and one team for having the wrong skin. The penalty then given to 1 was for talking. There was some confusion at the race start so with teams shuffling around. We tried to spot what we could. Please make a formal complaint after the race if necessary.

I was very confused at the time by the talking penalty, but I realized after the race that I accidentally hit my smiley hot key while looking left and right in heavy traffic. I have all three functions on my Point Of View switch on my wheel. Lesson learned -- I will relocate my smiley key so I can't do that again!

Quote from Humbleridderen :

We had some trouble in the start. Some passing us under the formation lap, so we actually ended up in 11th position instead of the 8th position we qualified for. After that, we crashed with car number 1.
I have seen replay from all angles now and it seems like, that we started turning into the corner as we had to because of the way, you have to turn there, and suddenly and surprisingly we got hit by a fzr, car 1, who took a pretty wide line and probably had too much speed there and maybe a bit lack of grip to turn better into the corner. I can see it from both cars look like it`s the other, who did a mistake, but finally I just think it was one of those stupid racing incidents, where no one did it on purpose.

I certainly would not hit someone on purpose. I got a slingshot off the straight and ducked low into the corner. I have not yet seen the replay, so I cannot comment on the specifics of the incident, but I did not believe at the time that I initiated the contact. From my perspective at the time, a passing opportunity presented itself and by taking it I apparently surprised you. You turned into the corner thinking that no one was there and we made contact. The contact was pretty slight but with both cars near the limit we both lost control. I need to watch the replay to see if there is anything I could do differently if this same situation happens again.

I too believe that this was just a racing incident. I hope there are no hard feelings.

Quote from banshee56 :

Is that a personally taken photogragh, or a well known one? If that image has been around for a while and is popular, then we might be able to guess it. Otherwise, I stand by my guess of I-71.

Can't be I-71 -- no farmhouses, rusted out wrecks, or Stuckey's billboards

I'm up for that! Every race needs a backmarker or two....