Race 22: Round of Decatur

Plissken Avoids DNF Record

Why was Kurt Plissken so adamant about making it into the 2013 Round of Decatur when he had so much to lose? Plissken was one DNF away from eclipsing Stephanie McGlynn in the record books for the all-time record (meaning, since 07) of most DNFs in a season. Plissken could have simply failed to qualify and avoided the unwanted distinction altogether. Instead, he went ballistic on a couple of expletive laden tirades both before and after his successful qualifying efforts. This behavior out of the normally placid Plissken had many in the paddock scratching their heads in wonderment.

Now it should be clear to all that Plissken wanted to face the challenge head on as he fought hard to get into the race and went out and competed and didn't just fail to qualify to save himself from the undesirable milestone. His already tarnished reputation could have probably sustained another such hit, but it was in his desire to not avoid the situation, that Plissken should not only be commended, but also admired. Kurt Plissken being admired?! What is the world coming to?!

"I didn't punk out like some of the others around here would have," stated Plissken.

It seemed that the special patriotic schemes being run on the #16 and #41 Lycoia Interceptors of both Plissken and Greg Woodard for the Decatur race was paying dividends as both of the PSI teammates were fast and moving up through the field. Woodard was then involved with Chris Davenport in a minor incident and he was never a factor for the remainder of the race. Woodard garnered a 20th place finish.

Plissken, on the other hand, was making some headway and was keeping the race leaders in sight when suddenly the #22 car of Peter Short squeezed into the #2 Aperture Science car of Packer Carroll. Caroll, making his final start for Volpi Racing Team, then preformed some spectacular aerial auto gymnastics which ended with the cars of Plissken and the #12 car of Swiss sophomore Mélanie Clévenot crumpled on the track. Clévenot was ironically making her final appearance for Lynxe Racing before heading off to the Hodges-Walter Racing squad for the 2014 campaign.

It was then that Plissken displayed the most moxie when he soldiered on when he could have simply quit and just accepted the unwanted DNF distinction. Plissken managed to make it to the end of the race thereby avoiding the whole ugly mess-- but it took a Herculean effort on the part of everyone involved at PSI. He was several laps down, but he did finish!

In an odd quirk of circumstances, Plissken managed to finish 13th in the overall points despite his DNF woes-- 382 points behind eventual championship winner

championship winner:

. One can only ponder where Plissken could have finished in the overall championship had he not come so close to setting the individual DNF mark.

Results and points posted.

Cynon wrote:Results and points posted.

Don't you mean ponts?