Class pole sitter held half the field back on pace lap because he thought there should be a gap between us and the BMWs ahead. We started probably 10 seconds back from the rest of the class. Is this a protest?
Well, this is a new one.
P1 apparently decided himself that the classes start too close together, and so he spent all of the pace lap what felt like 8-10 seconds back from the cars in the right line. I guess there was some back-and-forth in chat about this, but I've turned off voice chat so I heard none of it. P2 paced his line as normal, and surprise! All of that line finished well ahead of all of this one-guess which one I was in?
P1 told everyone we had screwed up by not listening to him because as class pole-sitter, he is the one that dictates the pace of the class field, not the pace car.
Pretty sure that's not how it works, but in any case, is this a protest, or just an absolutely idiotic, frustrating experience that we just have to grin and bear?