Stephen Maluk

In light of all this talk about crashing, I thought I

should bring up the Cat 3 race from this past Sunday's

Banana Belt.



I know that nobody wants to be in a crash. It's

assumed that nobody wants to cause a crash. But based

on some peoples' actions, one might come to other

conclusions.



Case in point: During the last lap of the Cat 3 race,

while going over the dam, there was a bit of a traffic

jam (yes, cars). Three or four cars were in front of

the breakaway, going slower than the breakaway. This

caused the peloton to catch the break sooner (though

it looked like it was caught anyway). So not even

half-way over the dam, the re-grouped peloton had to

slow considerably because of these slow cars. And

there was traffic in the on-coming lane. And

inexplicably, while our race official was trying to

neutralize the field from our lead car, some people

started attacking up the center of the road. They

weren't crossing the center line, but they were

passing multiple cars in our lane in the two or three

feet of space between the center line and these cars

-- while on-coming traffic continued, some of which

were towing boats.



So in addition to unfairly attacking and splitting the

peloton in half (some of us worked like hell to catch

back on but never could), these guys caused a major

hazard.



So please, while talking about crashing and how to

avoid it, think about such things as etiquette and

maturity. Nobody needs to win so badly they need to

endanger everybody on the road to do it.



-Steve Maluk



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