"Jeff" wrote
No, he wasn't. You really don't get it, do you? The C&C wanted to
win the regatta, not the race. The C&C was in first place and only
had to beat the J27 (actually beat him by several minutes) to win the
division. We can only speculate about what transpired, but two things
are certain: The C&C didn't care at all about the Beneteau, and you
know nothing about racing.

Let me put it another way. Eleven hours into a motorcycle endurance race
our team was leading our class by close to half an hour, clicking off 1:37
lap times like clockwork and gaining a couple seconds on our closest rival
every lap. Soopy had just taken over when a much faster bike, in a far
different class, came out of the pits and passed him. Next lap soopy's time
was down to 1:35, hanging on the guys tail and enjoying a great dice. His
lap times steadily fell - 1:33, 1:30, 1:27 despite pit board warnings. Then
he limped in with a broken crank. We'd gone from first in class to DNF in
five laps. Soopy prolly still wonders why nobody'd team with him any more
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