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Re: RHD

To: rossf@interaccess.com, Erichreich@aol.com, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RHD
From: "Roger Sieling" <sarl45@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:17:06 -0500
Ross,

Unless your borrowed ride had been modified, you must be thinking of another 
car, 'cause a Lotus Eleven has a typical pedal arrangement. Very tight pedal 
area, but the fast pedal is on the right, not the middle.

Roger Sieling, Lotus Eleven 345


>From: Ross Fosbender <rossf@interaccess.com>
>Reply-To: Ross Fosbender <rossf@interaccess.com>
>To: Erichreich@aol.com,   "vintage-race@autox.team.net"  
><vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: RHD
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:20:14 -0600
>
>Erichreich@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I have never driven a RHD car before. I am considering buying a 
>vintage racer, possibly a RHD example.  My concern is making the transition 
>from LHD to RHD under race conditions. Any thoughts/comments/experience?  
>Thanks in advance. Erich.
>
>
>Erich-
>No sweat.  My first drive in a RHD car was in a race in a borrowed Lotus
>11.  Shifting with the left hand was easy and being on the right side
>weighted the car better and made it easier to see most of the apexes.
>It was the old-style European pedal set-up with the throttle between the
>brake and clutch that kept your attention!  (How long ago? Well, I was
>not vintage racing.)
>
>Ross Fosbender, Ottawa IL

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