Yellow flag for first lap?

[smankow]

michael lang wrote:

Here's from a newbie point of view, I remembered the one FATT event I attended and I was sitting on the pit out lane thinking what the hell was I about to do & my instructor came up to me and we started talking about various things. One thing that sticks out in my mind was his attention to being conservative in his approach to on track during warm up. He said that I should not ever be worried about being in front in the beginning of a session. He told me to use the first lap as a familiarization of the "landscape" (as he referred to it). He told me that surveying what was going on with the track helped me get a "check up from the neck up". He also told me not to worry about it because most run sessions are between 20-30 mins long and that was plenty of time to work my way to the front of the pack.

I definitely agree with the "landscape" faminilarization, but why was the instructor so obsessed with getting to the front of the pack????? Don't get me wrong, passing cars is fun, but you can also learn a lot being passed, too.

If you are one of the faster cars in your run group, you'll spend the majority of each session waiting for passing signals instead of being able to drive. Be cautious not to follow the line of the cars that you've caught. :dude: