Originally Posted by DesertRat

Here's a true funny story of mine: When I gave away my super-dialed Carpet Knife to a younger kid at the track I helped him install all of his equipment on the car. I found pieces hanging off of it after his first race and now I take a point to inspect it between rounds. He's slightly peeved by this, being overly proud, because there is ALWAYS something major wrong with it (like the diff set nut being so tight its actually locked, the rear links not screwed in, missing side spring, and so on), and then a few days ago he inspected it himself and presented it to me with a smug look on his face telling me to find something wrong. Took four seconds. He had hit something so hard that the servo mounts were canted off at about a 20 degree angle from true, to which he said "So thats why it was pulling to the right." I guess it didn't click that it won't naturally pull to the right.

He means well and takes everything I try to instill seriously, but I think he's been racing dirt slingers for way to long. It made him way to casual and only pain of being lapped repeatedly will teach the ultimate lesson about of the virtue of attentiveness.