Monday, July 28, 2008

Reconnecting

ASRS has seen many great races, and as of late the cautions counts have been lower and the quality of racing much higher. But, the car count has dwindled along the way, some drivers left for scheduling reasons, others left because they felt they weren't wanted here and others left because they were a hazard on the track and finally realized that. We are not here to draw conclusions on people, and we aren't going to judge our members by how one or two races goes. But, we are here to create the BEST online racing community around, and we have worked very much to improve on our strengths and overcome and improve our weaknesses. We feel that the product (our on track action) is a great value to anyone and that our league has a very solid foundation for the future. We have begun to open up some communication lines with former members, taking criticism about our league as well as compliments.

We must face it; we make mistakes, just like everybody else. We may not have always followed this plan, but we feel it is the best policy now: Admit when you make a mistake and learn from it. If you feel wronged by a call we make, please send an email letting us know that your feel wronged so that we can do our best to correct a problem that may exist. But please avoid the name calling, profanity and threats in your email, because quite frankly these don't add anything to your facts and more than likely will result in your email being ignored. However, if you present your side in a calm manner and allow us to do our work here as officials, we will appreciate your positive attitude and will do what we can to work with you.

As we begin to reconnect to drivers, we want to remind everyone that putting aside minor differences is what the world is about and if we can all agree to put aside these slight differences we can all make ASRS a great racing league with high car counts, high quality racing and a great community surrounding it. Together we can accomplish more than we could by ourselves. We are all a part of Team ASRS, and there is no "I" in TEAM!!!

Admitting mistakes is a great way to build to trust and integrity, two things that ASRS wants to have in it's drivers and that we would like our drivers to have in us. We aren't here to screw around and play head games with our members, we are here to race and put on great racing action.