track etiquette for lapped drivers
#166
Originally Posted by TD in DC
With repect to multi-class racing, I see no problem with racing someone who is not in your class provided that you are not lapping them or they are not lapping you. I had lots of fun with H, I and Gt-5 (isn't that what Jase Scott runs his 356 in?) class cars (and, frankly, a few G class cars). I had to race them because there was nobody else in SP2. So, I assume that racing someone in another class that is driving at roughly your same speed is fine, no?
#168
Originally Posted by Veloce Raptor
Bob, tell ya what: Despite the fact that it is none of your business, you explain the meaning of the following, and I will answer you.
"How easy he survives the corner depends on his consideration of the passing car"
"How easy he survives the corner depends on his consideration of the passing car"
Any time you get a moment, Bob....
#169
some on point video
Hope you find this interesting
http://members.rennlist.com/bill935k...ate%20race.wmv
early - I'm leading go defensive against another GT1 car get cought overslow-off boost and get passed
later- it shows what I consider a brake check
next. the same corner next lap normal brakes and speed taken in fourth gear
last- is show a back marker getting into the middle of the race for 1st overall.
FYI, I got him on the last lap
http://members.rennlist.com/bill935k...ate%20race.wmv
early - I'm leading go defensive against another GT1 car get cought overslow-off boost and get passed
later- it shows what I consider a brake check
next. the same corner next lap normal brakes and speed taken in fourth gear
last- is show a back marker getting into the middle of the race for 1st overall.
FYI, I got him on the last lap
#171
Originally Posted by 1gplus
Given Bob's vastly superior race skills, he doesn’t need other cars to lift or brake early or yield-the-line, particularly a lapped car. He can pass them at will, wherever and whenever he chooses.
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Larry Herman
2016 Ford Transit Connect Titanium LWB
2018 Tesla Model 3 - Electricity can be fun!
Retired Club Racer & National PCA Instructor
Past Flames:
1994 RS America Club Racer
2004 GT3 Track Car
1984 911 Carrera Club Racer
1974 914/4 2.0 Track Car
CLICK HERE to see some of my ancient racing videos.
#172
Originally Posted by Bill935K3
Hope you find this interesting
http://members.rennlist.com/bill935k...ate%20race.wmv
early - I'm leading go defensive against another GT1 car get cought overslow-off boost and get passed
later- it shows what I consider a brake check
next. the same corner next lap normal brakes and speed taken in fourth gear
last- is show a back marker getting into the middle of the race for 1st overall.
FYI, I got him on the last lap
http://members.rennlist.com/bill935k...ate%20race.wmv
early - I'm leading go defensive against another GT1 car get cought overslow-off boost and get passed
later- it shows what I consider a brake check
next. the same corner next lap normal brakes and speed taken in fourth gear
last- is show a back marker getting into the middle of the race for 1st overall.
FYI, I got him on the last lap
What an asswipe. I hope you gave him an appropriate hand gesture that indicated that he was number 1.
#175
How about this video? Two class battles coming together at T3 Summit Point. I take 1st back on the front straight from the camera car, then we catch a pair of E30's. Look at how much time I gain on the camera car because of this.
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
#176
Originally Posted by Mike Buck
How about this video? Two class battles coming together at T3 Summit Point. I take 1st back on the front straight from the camera car, then we catch a pair of E30's. Look at how much time I gain on the camera car because of this.
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
That looks alot like my races.
In in a 2 vs 2 like that... Sometimes you are windshield, some times the bug.
It would have been nice for the 2nd BMW to hang back and let both 944's through, but he was able to use that to take a position himself. When racing equal cars like that you need to use every trick you can to gain an edge.
#177
Mike, maybe I'm a lunatic, but I think that he let you get away. I would have stayed plastered to the bumper of the BMW that cut him off, and freight-trained the 2nd one up through Wagon Bend. With that run, I would have passed the first BMW inside of the chute, and been right back on your bumper by the carrousel.
#178
Yeah, I hear you Larry. But those E30's have a tendacy to get sideways in corners big time (how you have to drive them I guess) and this was a non-points race for us. I might have hung back myself too, rather than press the issue with little to gain. Unless they are obviously giving me the corner, I try not to enter side by side with them.
#179
Bill, thanks for the video, nice SLO-MO! You are really lucky that blue/yellow 993 did not take you out.
Anyone who brake checks is really a dic*, a good cause for a 13/13. Dirty Harry in the 944T did that to me at Pocono a few years ago, my 1st time seeing that move. Good reason to have a video camera, otherwise they might get away with it.
Have fun!
Anyone who brake checks is really a dic*, a good cause for a 13/13. Dirty Harry in the 944T did that to me at Pocono a few years ago, my 1st time seeing that move. Good reason to have a video camera, otherwise they might get away with it.
Have fun!
#180
Originally Posted by Mike Buck
How about this video? Two class battles coming together at T3 Summit Point. I take 1st back on the front straight from the camera car, then we catch a pair of E30's. Look at how much time I gain on the camera car because of this.
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
BMW's and Porsches are the two different classes, btw.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mibuck/M...0scrapeoff.wmv
And as the old truism goes, That's Racing!