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Rick H 02-07-2014 04:31 PM

Track Day Overtaking on Straights
 
Hi all, just had a flyer through from a local track and it states overtaking on the straights should be on the right - it's a clockwise track (Three Sisters in Wigan) and it seems to me overtaking on the right involves steering inputs on the faster car plus theres no obvious move from the slower car to say the faster car's been seen.

What's normal protocol? Last Oulton day I did was lefthand overtaking.

Jon8710 02-07-2014 06:34 PM

always left on every day i have done

shimmy 02-07-2014 07:19 PM

Normally on the left

RMA and in Europe both sides.

Curly does it anywhere, anyhow, tricks and all.

shane@mbtech 02-07-2014 08:35 PM

3 sisters is not a track lol

Wouldn't go on that in a CSL with other cars.

alexk 02-07-2014 08:37 PM

From the left as it is the 'right' way to drive.
You boys have the steering wheel at the wrong side over there :blalalala:

shimmy 02-07-2014 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexk (Post 171037)
From the left as it is the 'right' way to drive.
You boys have the steering wheel at the wrong side over there :blalalala:

I think you'll ind the British invented roads, cars and steering wheels (and chocolate and cuckoo clocks) so we get to decide which side to overtake :)

Rick H 02-07-2014 09:02 PM

Thanks chaps - right seems odd as I think it takes the fast driver off line and slows the car down. Also, the car has to get back on line for the corner and as the straights are short, it's difficult to know if a complete inside overtake would be achievable safely with possible queuing. Then there's no indication the slower driver knows you're there, on Oulton the slower driver makes a definate move to the righthand side of the track.

Lawsey - it's the "North West's Premier Outdoor Circuit" don't cha know!!!! I do have my reservations, they're doing evenings £20 for 10 laps. All's well but I can't get my head round right hand overtaking on the short straights and, as you say, the CSL on such a small track with 7 others. Nothing wrong with short tracks, but it may be crowded with 8 cars on.

Full track day on 15th July is £80.

Rick H 02-07-2014 09:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shimmy (Post 171039)
I think you'll ind the British invented roads, cars and steering wheels (and chocolate and cuckoo clocks) so we get to decide which side to overtake :)

Yeh, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Trawler 02-07-2014 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shimmy (Post 171039)
I think you'll ind the British invented roads, cars and steering wheels (and chocolate and cuckoo clocks) so we get to decide which side to overtake :)

Plus skiing, crests run and lots more, but being British we don't like to boast about it. :blalalala:

gav 02-07-2014 11:04 PM

Only overtaking on the right on a track day usually if it is an anticlockwise direction.


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