Racing Drivers IRL ruin Spa 24H iRacing

[mik]

One of them (Zack Scoular) is apparently an F4 racing driver IRL. (His two team-mates (James Swindells and Ethan Welsh) are both real-world racing drivers too).

Presumably after the race isn't panning out as they intended, their 3-man team collectively decide 7hrs into this iRacing 24H at Spa event that they're going to just ruin the event for everyone.....

(You sometimes see childish shit like this when racing on line, but not at this "level" of sim racing).

[speedingfine]

Spoilt kids being wankers. Throw the book at em

[Mito Man]

Is there a 3 minute summary of this?

[mik]

Presumably after the race isn't panning out as they intended, their 3-man team collectively decide 7hrs into this iRacing 24H at Spa event that they're going to just ruin the event for everyone.....

Is there a 3 minute summary of this?

Just re-read the above. Really. Slowly.

One of the 3 drivers in their team just starts ramming people off or weaving and blocking, or slowing hugely on apexes - queues of 10-15 cars behind unable/unwilling to pass. They pit and their 2nd driver does much the same. They pit and their 3rd driver does much the same. 24hr race kinda ruined for 100+ other participants so the 3 amigos can spit their dummies out.

[Nefarious]

Team went to the pub and left their 8 year old child at the controls?

[Matty]

"We would like to clarify in the case of Zach Scoular, he was not the driver logged into the account at the time of the incident, His account was accessed without authorisation after he mistakenly shared his iRacing login with a colleague, who drove during the stint in question"

Of course it was.

[Beany]

Team went to the pub and left their 8 year old child at the controls?

Literally an excuse one of them used, more or less.

[mik]

"We would like to clarify in the case of Zach Scoular, he was not the driver logged into the account at the time of the incident, His account was accessed without authorisation after he mistakenly shared his iRacing login with a colleague, who drove during the stint in question"

Of course it was.

Wow - I’ve just seen that on Reddit.

Amazingly - reading the comments - absolutely NOBODY believes it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/s/QuTWqEw6dP

[Matty]

So I know nothing about this, but I'm enjoying all the drama - apparently that Zach fella is the manager, so he wrote that statement?

Also, "especially towards minors" ? Apparently they're all 18, so clearly trying to guilt people when they knew exactly what they were doing.

[Beany]

One is (apparently) 17, but if they're big enough to take sponsor money and drive real fast in big heavy things, they're big enough to act like professionals, when racing under their own and their teams name, in a (functionally) public, official online race.

Also, sharing your login with someone a breach of every major term of service for any online service, so that's not the defence they think it is.

Get banned for driving (along with the rest of your team, in exactly the same way....) like a prick or
Get banned for sharing your login with someone (who somehow, drives in exactly the same way as your other team members, and who your other team members who you're probably in a voice call with, don't recognise is a different person, and try to pull out)

Rumours abound that Zach is the only one with sponsor money and the statement is to try to not scare sponsors off. The sponsors who have been getting a lot of emails today.

Not that it matters. Apparently all three are binned. Two of them were registered for races, but showed 0 laps, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/iRacing/comments/1m0o5 ... een_taken/

Anyway, that was entertaining.

[Jobbo]

If I iRacing is as professional as they’d wish it to be, they’d follow real world motorsport rules. It would be funny for these gimps to suffer actual sanctions.

[mik]

The one who apparently wasn't there honest (Scoular) is signed up to https://www.paloumotorsport.com/ driving in Eurocup3. I can't imagine this real-life race team will be too impressed (although I think they are a "pay for your seat" operation), and some have suggested that all of the subsequent actions appear to be trying to protect him.

(edit: I've just checked the insta for Palou motorsport and it's rammed full of angry torch & pitchforks comments)

I don't claim to know the facts, but what I've picked up seems to be:

> Team of 3 idiots ruin race for everyone. A 24H race is a big commitment for all involved, so emotions are pretty spiked.
> Scoular starts getting some abuse on his Insta account during / just after this situation, so he disables his account
> iRacing "Team" issue a statement saying their behaviour was bad m'kay, but someone else was actually using Zack's iRacing account honest big man. (For the timelines to connect, you'd have to assume that they were also signed into his Insta account too )
> People notice that Scoular is listed as the Team Manager for the above iRacing Team, so it appears that Scoular has written this statement himself. Peak Shaggy it wasn't me.
> iRacing "Team" update their lineup to add a 4th bloke and assign him as Team Manager

So the post-race shenanigans appear to be as awful as their race behaviour.

[Matty]

Perma-banned by iRacing:

https://x.com/iRacing/status/1946275842746708462