| orthojoe |
11-07-2013 05:16 PM |
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Originally Posted by canu_50
(Post 1318725)
No because the high horsepower car will lift during the straight and let the lower HP car go by. This is courtesy. If not we pull them in and talk to them.
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I understand that, but this sport is unfortunately full of people with egos. The more faster/expensive the car, the larger the ego and usually (not always) the less skill. The flag workers don't always catch bad behavior. Just look at the last time I was in a point by group in my Porsche. The guy was NINE seconds off my usual pace, but just refused to let me by:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYNRCfT_Pkg"]Pompous A-hole in a GT3 - YouTube[/ame]
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and you guys are telling me that you are doing point by while turning then?? If not it comes to the same thing.. to the exception that we do not wait for the driver in front of us to tell us when to pass him on the straight.
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Yes, depending on the experience level, the advanced point by groups usually allow point by anyway, including corners.
I don't run in open passing groups in my BRZ because it's so damn slow that I find I'm driving my mirrors the entire time and getting passed constantly. You can get lapped TWICE in once session running a relatively stock BRZ in the open group. With the slow pace of the BRZ, people not pointing by is rarely an issue, so I'm content with point by in the BRZ
In my boxster spyder, I've found that running on open group solved ALL of my problems with guys in high HP cars not pointing by. I haven't had any frustration at the track since. It's probably because people in those groups really get it and don't have problems letting people by, or passing through corners and in braking zones solve it otherwise. |
