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Seadog, on one of the previous pages of the message board there is a thread about Bloomington ("Nice Racing.." or "Great Night.." or something similarly-titled) that goes from an initial assessment about the show into a sort of free-flowing condemnation answered by a defense of Dave Darland's actions when he was staging for his heat and jumped on the throttle in violation of Bloomington's rules prohibiting that.
He was sent to the tail (some suggested black-flagged entirely) which a veteran like himself knew to be a death sentence for any hopes of making the feature. In his anger, he jumped out of the car on the straightaway to voice his displeasure, but did return to his seat only to park for the remainder of the night.
Personally, I don't like the degree to which some are raking him over the coals for this offense which added only about two minutes to a show that already was extended longer than I thought necessary while the track was being robbed of the VERY promising cushion that time trials had established.
That is the "Darland debate"--whether "Debate" is the proper word in this case or not I don't know...
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