Keefer,
I am usually absolutely resolute in that I won't get involved in the politics of racing and forum bullcheese.
BUT, I have seen both sides of what has gone on here, and even in the short time that I've ben involved in the series, and the short time that I've known Dom, Chass, and all the other DD folk...it doesn't take a genius to work out exactly what has transpired here.
If you're the sort of geezer that can suss a genuine person from a fake one within a few minutes of meeting them (as I consider myself fortunate enough to be), then a couple of mins with Dom and Chass will reassure you that the most underhanded thing they'll ever attempt will be to steal your pie while you're not looking (Dom particularly).
You ask why get all heated up, why not just let it go and move on, it's nothing really is it?
Well, because you haven't risked your ass every race weekend to achieve what you've always dreamed of, and you haven't put your money, time and effort where your mouth is to help that rider achieve what he (and you) have always dreamed of, only to have a conflict of personalities and interests try to sour what should be one of the happiest days in your life, using the most insidious, underhanded, backdoor tactics known to mankind.
I've met an awful lot of the DD padock in the short time that I've raced with them, and there has never, EVER been the slightest notion that Dom was cheating. I would simply love to know who the "bunch" of riders were that supposedly grumbled enough to instigate a protest.
There is a serious amount of gayness going on with some of the guys in the field. I raced at Donny, finished sixth in my first race and was then informed that some riders had been complaining that I shouldn't be allowed to come into the series and take points off the championship leaders. Realistically, there weren't many people I could have affected in that race points wise. One of them that could have been affected put in the protest at Snett. My answer to the complaint was "tell them to F@ckin ride faster"
Whatever happens, Dom and Chass are the salt of the earth in this DD paddock. Lose them and you lose a lynch pin that cannot be replaced by pompous, self absorbed, supersillious public schoolboys.
Nuff said (probably too much, but balls to it, I'm furious about it all still)
Cheers,
Tim