Yes, driving a RHD in the left hand lane (as intended) is tough because
everything that is engrained in our thought pattern needs to be reversed.
Cars approach intersections from the wrong direction in the wrong lane. At
a stop sign you need to first look right for traffic, then left, then right
again ... instead of the opposite in LHD countries. Pedestrians stepping
off the curb to the left of the car are in front of you right away. Yes,
there is a lot of stuff to be aware of that is different than we are used
to.
>From there it gets easier. Driving a RHD car in a LHD country is easy, so
is racing a RHD race car.
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald Queen <donqueen@Inreach.com>
To: Paul Meis <pmeis@wfubmc.edu>; Vintage <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: RHD
> I have tried unsuccessfully for years to drive a RHD car.
>
> Suffice to say that my picture is posted on the wall of every Hertz office
> in Great Britain.
> Don Queen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Meis" <pmeis@wfubmc.edu>
> To: "Vintage" <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 7:28 AM
> Subject: RHD
>
>
> > One of the oddities about RHD to me is the fact that despite roads being
> > governed by traffic on the right, many expensive European sports cars of
> the
> > twenties and thirties had RHD. I believe this included Hispano-Suiza,
and
> > Alfa. The reasons for this choice are not clear to me. Was this a way of
> > pretending that these grand tourers were meant for competition? Perhaps
> the
> > Alfisti on the list can enlighten us.
> > Paul Meis, Team Escargot
> > 69 NTM sports racer, RHD
> > Honda S2000, LHD
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