15-12-11, 03:10 AM
(14-12-11, 05:36 PM)bigralphie link Wrote: The IAM guy was trying to pick me for poor road position (the ex cooper didn’t have a problem with me and walked off with his brew smiling) because I was not doggedly moving left for a right corner /right for a left corner etc.
What he could not take on board was these were shallow chicanes and not full corners so the better position was to go apex to apex as that allowed better vision but he just kept saying “well that’s not how we are taught “ rather than seeing if I might have something and trying my way before condemning it.
Its this mind set which just pushes my buttons lol
Hmm, well I've been told that if if you can see clearly through the corner (assuming there's no hidden "dead ground" where a vehicle might emerge from) then by all means feel free to "straighten the bends".
There's a series of "bends" on the Morestead Road down here which, if you get your position right at the start, you can virtually take a straight line through
Some IAM Observers are more anal than others, true, the one I have now is much more "f**k it, remember the book is only guidelines, if it's safe, do it!"
