yep Ed - it was. My last domestic comp in the old svelte Ed days!
As a Pitts pilot, I'm horrified by the decription of the incursion by the op.
Makes me feel like a member of a renegade biker gang - poor show
However, if I'd been at the 10 hold in a Pitts that was prone to overheat and the OP backtracked, I would have been tempted and after a radio call would have gone and hauled it into a tight right turn - by the time i regained r/w hdg, I'd be out of the top of the circuit...
wasn't there - dunno but it hardly sounds like a lynch mob is required
Stik