UKGPL Season 22 (2011-2012) Intermediate (65) - Surfers Paradise - Nov 8

[Cookie]

This was not an diversified race for me...

With my good start I caught 4th place and kept it til Steves mistake, who made me the gift of a podium.

Sorry David, but I had to be carefull into T1! But I did not brake...

Maybe you just had that feeling I had, when I rearended Sky last season.
In GPLRA I saw that my car was doing a fast move forward when I came near in his slipstream!
This caused my loosing the championship...

[bernie]

Having spent 2 days trying (in vien) to get my 3hp twin outboard motor to run,  I felt more than a little daunted when confronted with the innards of a 64 valve 1500cc Climax V8 engine , to this end I spent untold hours thrashing the thing to death , honing my skills to perfectiononly to find on arrival at the track that I could quite easily have qualified as a backmarker in the novices race 
So armed with this knowledge and fully resigned to be tail end charlie,  I decided my tactics would be to follow the rest of the pack in the hope of picking up a place or two which other faster drivers might have  vacated by one means or other . Good news , I didnt have to wait long before a few went grass cutting and allowed me to pass ( I think I was actually 10th at one point ) Bad news , these same chaps (who obviously hadn't read the rules ) just were not playing the game and were soon knocking on my exhaust pipes in there hurry to regain there former positions , all went well until around lap 12 one one such car made it clear that he to wantedto pass , I offered him the racing line into the esses but he insisted on doing it the hard way round resulting in me being launched uncermoniously into the boondocks from which position I made the quick decision that retirement was the best and safest option 

Rather annoying at the time but realistically I suppose It must count as one of those racing incedent things and partly my fault as its not often you expect to encounter a tortoise in the middle of the track   

[Cookie]

...its not often you expect to encounter a tortoise in the middle of the track  

Hi Bernie,

in the early 70s I made one of my greatest holidays in Greece with my wife and our Citroen 2CV.
At that time they were not a member of the EU and their roads on the Peleponnes where old and just like the Targa Florio.
I learned to be aware that after each corner there can be a big tortois or a snail or a big rock waiting for you to be hit.
Biggest surprise we had when the road just was completely broken down into a canyon and just some green branches were laid at the borders to warn us...

So no problem on a track for me, if I can see you some corners before, to pass you save

[s2173]

Well, i drive with mouse, laptop touchpad to be exact... also, no matter how I tried to set the car, front left allways started boiling at the slightest attempt to drift these 2 turns before and after pit straight...and i kept forgetting that.  All that said, I really drove like crap in all the races after bathurst, and I have no excuse for that... the very bad luck and the frustration didnt help either... Dont know why that happens, but I apoligize to everyone involved. I wouldnt mind you reporting me for the accidents, I quite definetly deserve it...

[Rainier]

Sorry David, but I had to be carefull into T1! But I did not brake...

Hi Cookie

I never wrote you braked, ...but I had to brake
maybe you did to me what we call "queue de poisson" in France 

by the way, it is race and now it is an old story !

Hi Skymole
how can you drive with a mouse and touchpad  I cannot imagine how it should be difficult ?

can't you buy a steering wheel ?

[Cookie]

maybe you did to me what we call "queue de poisson" in France  

Hey, yes, in the last time I often had the feeling there must be a name for this phenomen!

At this race it happened two times for me, when Steve ran wide out of last corner and as Geoff went wide in T1 I followed them in the gras...

[Geoff65]

maybe you did to me what we call "queue de poisson" in France  

Hey, yes, in the last time I often had the feeling there must be a name for this phenomen!

At this race it happened two times for me, when Steve ran wide out of last corner and as Geoff went wide in T1 I followed them in the gras...

In English it's called target fixation. I've seen it happen right in front of me in a race at the Central Victorian, Winton Raceway a few years back.....quite a few years back. Two bikes in front of me  negotiating a LH medium speed corner called Mo's Nose. The guy in front of the little group crashed, and the guy following him crashed as well, in an identical manner. I didn't crash, because I wasn't watching the back of the bike in front. I had lifted my eyes and was looking thru the corner for the apex. Caught all the action in my peripheral vision though, then nearly crashed at the following right hander, laughing. 

[Cookie]

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[clouds]

...then nearly crashed at the following right hander, laughing. 

What a damn biker ! LOL