jsjsj wrote:
It's not macho shallow thinking. I watch races to see honest competition. NOT to see one guy sandbag it and jog behind everyone until the last lap.
How is sitting and kicking not honest competition?
If you don't want to get beaten by a sit and kicker, you can do one of two things...
1) run the kick out of him in the middle of the race. How to do this? Be stronger.
2) be a better kicker than him. How to do this? Be faster.
So the best way to beat someone who sits and kicks is to be stronger and/or faster. How exactly is that not "honest competition?"
Hating on sit and kick style racing has always struck me as the unrealistic whining of people who can't win. It's like the equivalent of saying that real pitchers only pitch fastballs because that's the honest way of getting strikes.