Why hide behind a screen name, just come out, you know you want to....
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Originally Posted by Monkey
How many Championships has Tricky won excactly?
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None, and I have been racing for four years, so it is about time... I did win nine of the eleven races in 2006, but aparently that is not good enough with the points system to win the championship. The winner won two races in 2006, and won the championships. 2007 was a bust from the start, as I was banned by ORDA from participating in Guernsey, and could only ever come last. Lucky for me the RYA have changed the rules, and ORDA can no longer ban me from National Championship events, so perhaps that is why there is now a 'private series' being organised?
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Originally Posted by Monkey
And on a serious note, at least Cliff is trying to host a series for these amazing boats. All Tricky has ever done has been to the detriment of the same.
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On a serious note, all Cliff Smith and his 'apendages' have done since I won my first event is attempt to get me removed from the Nationals. Starting off with protesting me in every single event ( except the Cowes 2006). I had a protest at Littlehampton when my valves bent, and they were going to strip my boat then, but chickened out after holding me at Littlehampton for two hours - they did not pay the fee. They claimed I was running 'special' heads and 'special' valves that enabled me to beat Cliff Smith.
After I had broken the seal placed on the engine at Sweden by Volvo, I was forced to get the engine 'certified' by the RYA before I could race again. And as the engine was passed by the RYA and certified as 'AS MANUFACTURED', sealed and secured to the boat, many waited to see what would occur in the next race, my supposed first race with a legal engine. I won again, and won every race since, except those when I broke the hull. I have also continued to get faster, setting a new record at Conniston in 2006 and breaking that again in 2007. I now hold the World and British records for V24.
I have been protested by Cliff Smiths navigator for taking the wrong course several times, once when he had made a mistake transcribing the course onto his paper, and when shown his error still insisted that the time keepers timings should be checked in case I made a different mistake on the course. The same event I was also protested for the second race and had my GPS examined by ORDA Committee members claiming to represent the RYA, who found nothing wrong with my course. Duh.
I was also accised of jumping a start, and lucky for me I had a video showing that I was LAST on the start run. Which was good, as that was turning nasty.
I have had my fuel tested several times, my gearbox gear ratio tested, my ECU swapped over with Cliff Smith and previously with Martin Weekes, I have had four sets of seals from various scrutineers placed on my engine to see if I was changing things.
Finally ORDA managed to get me banned from the first event in Guernsey 2007 because I publically criticided the organisers because I was unhappy that Cliff Smith had removed my fuel cap in Guernsey in 2006. Funny enough there was no action taken against Cliff Smith for doing this and he remained a committee member of ORDA as did his Navigator. A Honda team was banned for 5 years, but Cliff Smith was not because he was 'just taking the piss' and was not intending to sabotage my boat.
Before I started getting good I had no issues with Cliff Smith. When I passed him at the line at Ramsgate 2005 he suddenly became nasty. It was apparent from that date that I was no longer just making up the numbers, and that I was now a threat to him.
He won the National Championships in 2007 - with an illegal boat - and being the ONLY v24 in the race - as every other boat had withdrawn from the series, and every other boat withdrew because of Cliff Smith or his Navigator &or mechanic. So of the massive four boats who entered the 2007 National Championships, three withdrew because of Team Cliff Smith - So I was not the only person having an issue with him.
He will run this series to ensure that there are other boats in the water when he wins, as I am sure even he felt like an asshole winning the series, but knowing that there were no other boats competing.
Andy Twemelow joined the series for the finals as a non national series entrant, to make up some numbers, and I entered the finals as my parents had flown over to watch me race, which had been planned 8 months earlier. Apart from that all the races since Ramsgate had been one single V24 'winning' the championships.
If Cliff Smith was truly interested in running a race series, he would enter his boats ( all four of them ) into the National Championships, and take his chances against people like me and Martin and Geoff. But he has decided he needs control over all the boats he races against, and so has run the series privately and with his rules.
If his team lost 40 stone (and became just overweight) and learned to drive a V24 as it is designed to be driven, he could then compete equally against other drivers - Pete Little has proved that Cliff Smith has a better boat than mine, even with the 20 stone weight penalty of the navigator that he had to carry at Cowes 2007.
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