03-22-2007, 02:40 PM
Sechsgang wrote:
This very thing is one of the items I use as a criteria in moving a student up. If they have a train behind them, they aren't ready. If they aren't aware of their surroundings, they aren't ready. It doesn’t matter how fast they are.
Have you had a ride in the red run group? Driving at that level you spend a lot of time glancing in your mirrors. Notice I said glance, not stare. I look in my mirrors (all of them) coming into turns, coming out of turns, after I've checked my gauges and after I turn the page of my book (just checking if you guys are paying attention). What I'm trying to say is they/we know where they are and what's around them. And as a result you don't spend a lot of time waiting for a point by. By the time you get to the car in front of you, they are pointing you by.
One of my earliest memories was at Pocono at a NNJR where the guy in front of me and I were turning similar lap times. We would follow each other for a couple of laps and then point the other by and then follow for a couple of laps. We'd catch cars and work our way through and at the end of the session we were grinning from ear to ear and had to do that high five thing. Yeah, I know it would have been so much better without that high five but we got caught up in the moment.
I’d like to make a comment about the slow guys at the zone events. Over the years I’ve had a number of out-of-region guys comment on how fast our respective groups are compared to their region. Over the years, Kurt, John, Jim and Brian have done an outstanding job in teaching our region how to safely, and apparently quickly, get around the track.
Quote:I think the passing signals are a necessary "pain". The aknowledgement of a imminant pass is a comforting thing for the passer and just makes life a bit less stressful when passing. BUT...something I DID notice is that, and I dont know if this is just with me, in the Blue group, people would NOT THROW A PASS untill after winding out 2nd or 3rd gear...that just made life particularly annoying because I would at times have to compromise a line into say the Esses (not a great place for that to happen...) because some guy in a NA carrera thinks he can hold me off in the straights after I was fully attached to his bumper at the end of whatever corner...
I guess I would just want signals earlier...
To Brian...I cant believe that stuff happens in the black group! Are the cars passing you just that slow or are the people just being really lazy?
This very thing is one of the items I use as a criteria in moving a student up. If they have a train behind them, they aren't ready. If they aren't aware of their surroundings, they aren't ready. It doesn’t matter how fast they are.
Have you had a ride in the red run group? Driving at that level you spend a lot of time glancing in your mirrors. Notice I said glance, not stare. I look in my mirrors (all of them) coming into turns, coming out of turns, after I've checked my gauges and after I turn the page of my book (just checking if you guys are paying attention). What I'm trying to say is they/we know where they are and what's around them. And as a result you don't spend a lot of time waiting for a point by. By the time you get to the car in front of you, they are pointing you by.
One of my earliest memories was at Pocono at a NNJR where the guy in front of me and I were turning similar lap times. We would follow each other for a couple of laps and then point the other by and then follow for a couple of laps. We'd catch cars and work our way through and at the end of the session we were grinning from ear to ear and had to do that high five thing. Yeah, I know it would have been so much better without that high five but we got caught up in the moment.
I’d like to make a comment about the slow guys at the zone events. Over the years I’ve had a number of out-of-region guys comment on how fast our respective groups are compared to their region. Over the years, Kurt, John, Jim and Brian have done an outstanding job in teaching our region how to safely, and apparently quickly, get around the track.
Michael Andrews