Uncle Jack must live in a "Dream World" - I have found no such courtesy in
SVRA.
Any one out there care to tell me they have? I know they preach it but I have
not seen it.
Then again I am a consistant backmarker and may be my fellow backmarkers don't
know the courtesy's of vintage racing.
Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net> on 08/30/99 08:44:23 PM
Please respond to Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
To: vintage-race@autox.team.net
cc: (bcc: John Desantis/Leybold)
Subject: Passing
I wrote out my comments regarding the Monterrey debacle, left them in
the "unsent messages" folder, and trashed them. What a disappointment
that a driver of Moss's stature would try a Zanardi-like maneuver that
could not possibly succeed, and in someone else's extremely rare car, to
boot.. I saw the incident and its replays. All of us racers
occasionally pull a truly stupid maneuver and that was his (choose one)
senior moment or ego moment, I guess.
However, the whole thing brings to mind a subject near and dear to my
heart -- namely, the proper code of ethics for passing:
1. Punting another car out of the way is forbidden and should be
punished.
2. Blocking a clearly faster overtaking car is not done (I'm talking
here about a car that is lapping you, or a clearly faster car that for
whatever reason is behind you -- like a Corvette behind a Sprite or a n
XKE behind my TR4.
3. Blocking another car of the same speed is bad manners and bad
sportsmanship -- unless it is on the last lap and is for finishing
position.
4. For cars of nearly equal speed, fighting for position, whose corner
is it? It's really simple -- if the overtaking car CAN BE SEEN WITH
PERIPHERAL VISION by the overtaken driver, the corner belongs to the
overtaking car. This means that the overtaking car must have its front
fender at least halfway alongside the overtaken car.
5. If the overtaking car is 'kinda' alongside, say its front fender is
abreast of the overtaken car's rear fender, the corner belongs to the
car in front -- the driver can't necessarily see the passing car, and
the passing car has no right to the leading car's line.
These are the practices followed by respected drivers in every auto
racing venue.
Okay, go ahead.
--
uncle jack
TR4 - 10 mpg
TR6 - 30 mpg
(plus a few other differences)
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