- 1. RE: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: "Chamberlain, Warren" <Warren.Chamberlain@kla-tencor.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:40:46 -0700
- <snip> Actually, there are out-of-car techniques for slowing down the "movie in their brain" (I call it reducing the sensation of speed). I've written an article about understanding and controlling t
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00009.html (7,966 bytes)
- 2. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Tom M <tmatycho@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:02:41 -0700
- <snip> I think this rule of thumb works ok if the overtaken car is configured like a Lotus 7 where the driver sits far back in the car. However, in a vehicle where the driver is more in the middle of
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00014.html (9,504 bytes)
- 3. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom & Diane Kubler [Kubler's Kraftwerks]" <kubler_td@gowebway.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:57:25 -0700
- I couldn't agree with you more, both in opinion and the driver's meetings experienced in the central-south area of the country. Tom Kubler
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00021.html (10,541 bytes)
- 4. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:04:32 -0400
- Bravo, Tom! I've been avoiding commenting on this discussion till now, but I have to second this comment. My 1600 Alfa often gets put into VSCCA races where I'm way faster than lots of cars and I'm r
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00031.html (8,229 bytes)
- 5. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: geo@ohio.net
- Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 01:35:22 -0700
- this is the best thread i have followed on this list.....it's real racing. i'm a novice... completed the skip barber course at sears point. i have collected triumphs for a number of years. any way. m
- /html/vintage-race/1999-09/msg00045.html (7,024 bytes)
- 6. Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:44:23 -0500
- 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 ma
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00244.html (8,824 bytes)
- 7. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:31:51 -0500
- Well said. John
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00246.html (9,411 bytes)
- 8. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Calvin Krug <ckrug@laf.cioe.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 22:13:10 -0600
- Anybody have Dale Earnhart's email address so I can forward this to him? :-) Calvin "Poke me with a fork, I think I'm done"
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00248.html (7,319 bytes)
- 9. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: jdesanti@inficon.com
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:12:37 -0400
- Uncle Jack must live in a "Dream World" - I have found no such courtesy in 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 back
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00251.html (9,397 bytes)
- 10. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:07:43 -0500
- To all, I believe Uncle Jack's description to be correct for most (I said most) drivers in races put on by VSCDA. I also agree that I see more yahoos per capita at any SVRA race I've participated in.
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00252.html (13,452 bytes)
- 11. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:27:35 -0400
- My thinking on passing is that I don't agree with the idea that you can put a rule, or even a hard guideline, in place to control passing in any form of racing. My only two rules about passing are do
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00253.html (11,278 bytes)
- 12. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:34:01 -0400
- Saw the Nascar Tonite show, wherein the guy with the airbrushed hair chats with several drivers each week. They said that Nascar really hammers the idea of no front bumpers used as snow ploughs, etc,
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00254.html (8,002 bytes)
- 13. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: "Mordy Dunst" <mordyd@email.msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:27:38 -0600
- I once asked my father-in -law (Mike Rothschild) who did a fair bit of racing in the fifties and sixties in many venues here and abroad about passing in a corner. He was a "cowboy" when it came to dr
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00256.html (7,696 bytes)
- 14. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: S800Racer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:58:46 EDT
- <<the proper code of ethics for passing:>> If you can't do it clean -- don't try it. For the car being passed, check your ego at pit out and give your fellow drivers some room. If you are fast enough
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00264.html (7,497 bytes)
- 15. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Jackson <grand_wazoo@flinet.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:28:21 -0400
- I like both Brian and Uncle Jack's responses. Some rules of fender location apply but the summary of dont hit or get hit is really the answer. I worry at the occasional drivers meeting when some gold
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00267.html (14,132 bytes)
- 16. Re: Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:59:19 -0400
- I often let a car that's following me closely by, so that I can try an re-pass. I just try not to do it on the last lap...although this year I did just that, by mistake. My ego in racing is all about
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00269.html (7,691 bytes)
- 17. Passing (score: 1)
- Author: Jack W Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:21:46 -0500
- I started the thread -- and I want to thank everyone who expressed their opinion, whether or not I agreed with it. I can't resist throwing more fuel (or water) on the fire. I've raced since 1963, all
- /html/vintage-race/1999-08/msg00283.html (8,953 bytes)
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