LOL someone actually voted for Zolder
As much as I love Spa, I didn't vote for it as IMO it really
needs a LARGE crowd to make for entertaining racing, especially in the slower cars..
But it seems pretty popular among voters, so go ahead, prove me wrong gents!
i quite agree Roland,
i will admit i did vote for it, i just voted for a track that we hadn't used ,
No
matter what track i pick lets look at working together for the first event
im hoping we have i mind set that say im just going to drive fast enough to get round and learn,
if we have big gaps we will not lean anything in the races.
So i ask the fast guys to look for the slower guys and think, how can i help. In practice let them follow you let them see how you drive the track..
Now to the slower guys.
learn from the faster guys, watch and follow them dont try to overtake them
They are faster then you for a reason.
They brake for the corner at that point as its quicker.
they use that line as its quicker.. We are in practice so use the practice time to your advantage
Watch Learn and Follow.
sit behind them a couple of car lengths, when they brake for a corner brake at the same time.(not at the same point on the track) the chances are they can brake harder than you so if your to close you will run into them ...
Lets try and learn the track before we start to race each other...
This is just a generalization not aimed at any 1 person but all of us
Now when were in the race..
i still see guys trying to go into corners 3 and 4 cars side by side...this is not going to work it will always,
well 95% of the time end up with contact or cars spinning..
You don't see this in real racing so why we think we can do i don't now..
lets try and avoid these things, learn to get back in line before the corner
the car in front, the car that wasn't being overtaken, the leader in the group.
he has the right to the corner and all fall back in line behind him..
Just because you get a run on a guy and get along side, you still have to think to yourself can i get through this corner side by side and cleanly if the answer is no maybe not ,Back off and fall behind him again. and the guy behind you can do the same
you will all get through the corner faster and not loose more ground to the guys up ahead..
Get used to following drivers, the fast guys at the front don't trade paint every corner they kind of work as a team to get ahead, yes they will overtake if the gap is there and will not slow themselves down in the process. ( also remember they are quicker than us and with this you could say they have a better understanding of racing) they pick there time to overtake where they know they can make the pass stick and maybe out a little gap.
As we all get better in our driving the racing should fall into place.
We wil race the track a number of times and as you have seen this month the racing has got better over the month.(with the odd slip up here and there.)
If you do make a mistake and tap a driver of track or get him out of shape don't forget to back off or wait for him to rejoin the track, and be more careful next time learn from the mistake.
I don't want this to seem like i want you all to drive in a big convoy for 15 laps with no overtaking. But i bet if we tried we wouldn't make 5 laps before we had a crash. Yet we do it on the road every day of our lives. (ooops. well some still crash)
So lets all think a bit more when on track, drive with respect to all drivers on track try and learn and think of the bigger picture.
And try to be as smooooth as you can with the car