I've been working 16 hour days since Monday and desperately need sleep, but I had to chime-in on this one before 10 more days of the same.

Matthews runs in TTD class with me in his BMW M3 sedan, he's really quite a good driver and smokes my azz every event and has run the HPDE program for the past few years. That being said, he sometimes is a condescending, cocky SOB even to me. Last Sunday he had a few snide comments to me that were borderline rude !

Oddly enough, one of them was specifically about that chicane 7&8. He said "geezus Derek, you can take that faster than 100, you're driving like a puzzy and slowing us up, maybe you should be back down in HPDE 3"...

Another comment on Saturday was about turn 1. His BMW and I run neck and neck down the straightaway topping at 125 +/- before the entry into turn 1, because of his experience with that track and his car, he only lifts slightly and carries about 120 through turn 1, where me, since I have limited experience on the oval, lift to about 110 thru that turn because I don't know yet what speed the car is going to float out to the wall with catastrophic results.

He made some smart azzed comments during the drivers meeting that he was driving a boxy car with no aerodynamics and having to pass me offline in that turn because I was slowing him down.

He's not normally as grumpy and tactless as he was that weekend, I wonder if he was suffering sleep deprivation all weekend like I was ? Jody will attest to his normal demeanor because he was very friendly at Buttonwillow as Jody's instructor.

Or, perhaps he just hates Crossfires !!! LOL.