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Typical Prod sports meeting really...thats why I'll never enter one.

while they are all racing in the one race there are many different classes - still 'some care' should be considered.

they mentioned in the drivers breifing to hold your line and let the faster guys make their way through "safely".

infact there was a stack last year at EC where the lambo went on the outside of a car between turn 3 and 4 went on the grass and got thrown back in sideways and took out a lotus.

that MX5 with the incar is quite a serious MX5 and Paul the driver at the time has been racing for years and is no hack, It has a half cage...which even though is allowed...I personally wouldnt race with it.

I actually bought Pauls old MX5.

he also won his class that race! (best its done is a 2.40.3 at bathurst)

there is the incar of the lotus somewhere too?

infact there was a stack last year at EC where the lambo went on the outside of a car between turn 3 and 4 went on the grass and got thrown back in sideways and took out a lotus.

OMG, I was just watching that video yesterday. Coincidence? I think not, must have been Jesus.

Love the fact that he gets straight back on the gas, brutally focused.

Edited by maxima

What's the problem? When you look at the Lotus's incar it's all fairly straight forward. But it's a good lesson about how bloody important it is to hold your line as the driver's briefing emphasised that day. It's wankers who have no idea what they are doing on a race track who are the problem, not these blokes.

Edited by 260DET

Disagree....at that level of motorsport...you need to read the traffic, the cars, their pace and the drivers to the best of your ability...going through that gap at full tilt was in my opinion to high a risk (not that my opinion really matters)

No doubt they are all more experienced than me...but I think that was a gap he should not have gone for at that speed >_< >_< >_<

Out of interest were you entered on the day? Sure, its important to hold your line but the MX5 was kind of occupied reading the pace of the Boxter. LOL, its just another reason why I ever want to race.

Look at the vid maxima posted...it can go pear shaped very quick with such a speed differential. I have been wathcing some German VLN races because in 2013 I genuinely hope to do a few 6hr events in Europe on the cheap and frankly I am scared out of my mind by the accidents you see due to different classes of cars

Wow that is pretty crazy. Lotus should have never gone through that small gap at that pace, at the same time the MX5 driver should have checked his rear vision.

When Ted passed (Yellow Lambo) the driver of the MX5 should have looked into his rear vision to see if there was another GT3 approaching. Should have stayed in the slip stream, re-check the rear vision mirror and then attempt a pass coming into turn 1.

If they made contact, the dude in the Mx5 could have ended up anywhere.

adrian, I suggest you check out the thread in performance forums where Paul - MX5 driver actually tells about the situation....

http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?67274686-Now-this-is-close-racing.......

Hmmm, I don't see an issue personally. Everyone should be well aware of what is behind them at all times. I'm seldom passed at the track but am constantly very aware of anyone behind me.

Here at 7:20 I pass an Alpha and a Datto in a similar fashion.

Not dangerous, assuming the passing driver has made sufficient calculations in his head of the likely movements of the cars he's going to pass, and the slower cars aren't really "racing/dicing" or making any crazy weaving moves that I would deem silly anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BennyTheWoo?feature=mhee#p/u/15/M9L49eCE7RU

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