149 SAM BERRI vs 1456 Brandon "AMATEUR HOUR" Aurther

[harleys dad]

How many drivers have won because they rammed someone as opposed to showing some patience and making it to the finish?

considering 1600-5-1600 and class 11 races have been won and lost from less than 10 seconds figure iit out.. back markers will take all day to get by some one with no chance at all of ever winning, they have all the patience and can waite for some one to decide to get over when they feel like it. I have zero problem moving someone along with a stout smack and have won because of it. Had I cruzed along waiting I would have lost several times. A stout smack does not mean destroying someones car but a lite tap only invites a rabbit situation. I punted a 9 car with my class 11, but good, and won by 3 seconds had I followed him...

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[rusco]

2 sides to the story. I believe Brandon or his co-driver should have been more aware of how close Sam was. As for Sam, dude, that was a vicious hit, to move a 5000-6000 lb truck. I get it tho, trucks kick up so much dust and OFTEN don't feel they should pull over. Very FRUSTRATING. However,everyone knows this kid is not old enough for prom so cut him some slack. This is HDRA not BITD, he's gonna learn.

[Fast Eddy]

2 sides to the story. I believe Brandon or his co-driver should have been more aware of how close Sam was. As for Sam, dude, that was a vicious hit, to move a 5000-6000 lb truck. I get it tho, trucks kick up so much dust and OFTEN don't feel they should pull over. Very FRUSTRATING. However,everyone knows this kid is not old enough for prom so cut him some slack. This is HDRA not BITD, he's gonna learn.

BITD pays 21,000 to win?

[G.A.S.]

This is what I saw from the video...
:47 seconds is when they first spot Sam and he is a ways back.
4:34 Brandon comes to a complete stop for 5 seconds and I don't hear or see anything in rear view mirror
4:43 is the first time I hear the siren as Brandon is maneuvering around a stuck vehicle in silty dirt and trying to maintain momentum up a hill
4:55 Co Pilot waves acknowledging they see Sam
5:02 Slam
5:23 Slam
5:32 Pulls Over
To me seems Sam was impatient considering this race is how many hours long even for a Class 1?
If you are racing and pulling over everytime you first spot a car which is so far behind you that you still don't hear him after stopping for 5 seconds you are not going to win many races...

How many times do the races come down to seconds? I wouldn't chance it. IT'S A RACE!

[pappawheely]

considering 1600-5-1600 and class 11 races have been won and lost from less than 10 seconds figure iit out.. back markers will take all day to get by some one with no chance at all of ever winning, they have all the patience and can waite for some one to decide to get over when they feel like it. I have zero problem moving someone along with a stout smack and have won because of it. Had I cruzed along waiting I would have lost several times. A stout smack does not mean destroying someones car but a lite tap only invites a rabbit situation. I punted a 9 car with my class 11, but good, and won by 3 seconds had I followed him...

I don't disagree, my point was if you hit someone hard enough to break your own car what's the point?

[dan200]

Here is what is looked like from Brandon's point of view. He would never intentionally hold up another racer. That is not how we race.

At 435 ish is the siren we hear brandons or sams?

[LukeMcMillin]

Should have moved over much much faster, 5 minutes faster! For Sam, chasing a sportsman truck for 5 minutes must have felt like a life time. How frustrating for Sam Berri! .... I thought the nerfs were great, bet he moves faster next time there's a 1 car behind him!!! It's easy to say on the copmputer but you won't find many other drivers that will have the patience that Sam had in this video, while leading a race! Point, Sam. JMO

[SpeedBump]

This is what I saw from the video...
:47 seconds is when they first spot Sam and he is a ways back.
4:34 Brandon comes to a complete stop for 5 seconds and I don't hear or see anything in rear view mirror
4:43 is the first time I hear the siren as Brandon is maneuvering around a stuck vehicle in silty dirt and trying to maintain momentum up a hill
4:55 Co Pilot waves acknowledging they see Sam
5:02 Slam
5:23 Slam
5:32 Pulls Over
To me seems Sam was impatient considering this race is how many hours long even for a Class 1?
If you are racing and pulling over everytime you first spot a car which is so far behind you that you still don't hear him after stopping for 5 seconds you are not going to win many races...

Correction:

4:55 Co-driver waves thank you to the buggy that pulled over to let 1456 get by 7 seconds before Sam nerfs 1456.
Co-driver never waves to Sam before the nerf.

[Ratedxmo]

16 years old and 29 pages of BS on Race Dezert about you. You my friend are going to get the chicks!!

[BUSBY]

you can EASILY tell in this thread who the RACERS are......and who the spectators, photographers, friends of brandon, and DONKEYS are......carry on....

I don't agree with Sam on this one Pete ... it's all a difference of opinion ... but I was racing this race and the video is deceiving on what the sides were like.

I think the co-dawg sould have been more vocal on where Sam was, but Brandon was focusing on driving thru a technical section ... not watching mirrors.

Maybe Sam could have hit horn when pulled up for those 5 stopped seconds? How would they know that was the overall leader?

Due to the bottleneck hill and Brandon getting thru before they closed it, he along with us had passed a lot of class 1 cars. If I were looking back and saw a one car, I'd say just that " hey there's a one car back there" not ID it thru the dust.

But it's easier to judge because I was out on the course with them instead of trying to diagnose it here from a keyboard or from a video.

But you do have it correct, a lot of these posters have no clue as to what really happens out there, you can tell from what their opinions are.