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by **Pat Megroi** » Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Canberra here i come. he he
Guess you have never driven in western australia. Every Light is a drag
race. Every corner is chance to have the car sideways. When i started
driving i was amazed at what other people were doing and say i would never
be do such a thing. But driving for 7 years from 17 and having soo much bad
driving around me has taught me that no-one else is going to do a thing
about it. I dont risk lives but on an occasion give the car stick. I am
always looking ahead to see what is coming, looking at either side of the
road to see if someone is reversing or entering the road. That explains me
never having an accident around people you would say to put me to shame in
BAD driving.

--

all opinions expressed while drunk, stoned and flying through clouds.

I'm not paranoid. That's just a rumour started by people out to get me.

>>Funny, I could have sworn you wrote that you "always" try to have your
>Starion Turbo sideways. That doesn't exactly put across the impression
>of the isolated incident you're trying to retreat to now.

>Still, no matter. Australia is far enough away for me not to worry,
>although I would prefer you didn't live in Canberra as my sister is
>there. I'd hate to think she was returning from the pub at 12:30am
>after a few drinks and needed to cross that one way street.

>Cheers!
>John

by **Graeme Nas** » Sun, 24 Jan 1999 04:00:00

And there's me, not even able to drive yet! I hope too much GPL won't
***up my driving test :-)

Cheers!
Graeme Nash - Survivor of 6 Tunisian Taxi rides, December 1998 :-)

http://www.racesimcentral.net/
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1998 Xoom GP2 League Champion

by **John Walla** » Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:00:00

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:31:37 +0800, "Pat Megroin"

>Canberra here i come. he he
>Guess you have never driven in western australia.

No, I have driven there, and elsewhere.

Must have missed that somehow.

As it is anywhere else in the world, it just depends on the dolt
behind the wheel.

If you want to show off by such "macho" talk on the group that's one
thing. If you really do try and have the car sideways at every corner
then you really are an ass and a danger to yourself and anyone else
around you. I can't see how that sort of driving could possibly be
safe. Keep it for when you're out in the bush (for the benefit of the
Americans, that's a different sort of "bush" than you're thinking
of...!)

Cheers!
John

by **Eric Franze** » Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Maybe everyone should give this a try. When you first started driving GPL,
you know how slow you had to go to be able to drive accurately. Well, when
driving your street car, you don't need to speed to drive a perfect line.
You can still clip a PERFECT apex while driving the speed limit. Is it any
less enjoyable? If you drive the same road every day and can hit every apex
exactly, does it not feel good. I drive a Porsche Turbo and I still think
the main part of having fun is driving the road perfectly. Anyone who does
a four wheel drift on the public streets is just plain idiotic. Where is
your margin for error. What happens when your in the corner, and the car
coming the other way has slightly crossed the center line. On the track you
don't have cars coming at you. Or how many times in GPL have you hit a spun
car while in the middle of a corner. When you are at the limit, it is very
difficult to do anything more that keep the car in the corner. Well, sorry
for ranting, just wanted to say have fun but keep it slow.

Eric Franzen

>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:30:27 -0000, "Mark Fisher"

>>Surprising how some people think they are good drivers on the road
>>travelling at race speeds, I have pulled one or two of their bodies out of
>>mangled cars over the years and they don't look so good then.

>I've always found that within seconds of getting into a car with
>someone (me as passenger) I know whether I'm comfortable - just the
>observations they make, attention paid to mirrors, that kind of thing.
>You watch a dog run toward the road and disappear behind a bus
>shelter, and you KNOW that two seconds later it's going to "suddenly"
>appear and run onto the road, but the guy driving hasn't seen it so
>you end up peeling your face of the windscreen after an unnecessary
>"emergency stop".

>Most people's definition of "Being a good driver" seems to take into
>account clipping apexes, chirping the tires away from the lights and
>going as fast round a blnd corner as possible, but misses those
>insignificant details like actually watching what's going on around
>you, taking the time to make that really small arm movement to use
>your indicators, or letting people into traffic.

>Don't worry, my annoyance at ***driving is getting better now that
>I've moved out of Edinburgh, honest! :-)

>Cheers!
>John

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