[Fot] Bedding Brakes, dangerous driving

[Jim]

Steven,

Unfortunately they use the "r" word when describing vintage events... so
some of the "kids" who loved Pole Position or the different PC games feel
they need to drive like a jerk to be a "racer".  Or maybe they saw "Days of
Thunder" once too often ;)

Aside from keeping an eye on the mirrors, it's probably not a bad idea to
install an in car camera.  Next time.. grab an official and show them the
video.  It's kind of hard to argue against a video.


Cheers,

Jim
Dallas


-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Steven Belfer
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:24 PM
To: FOT
Subject: [Fot] Bedding Brakes, dangerous driving

Speaking of dangerous driving situations,  two weekends ago I raced at
Buttonwillow in my TR3.  I had new brakes that needed bedding.  This meant I
needed to heat up my brakes in the first practice session, let them cool so
I could have good braking power for the rest of the weekend.  I was in the
first group so at 8:30am, I told the proper official-type guys what I needed
to do and started in the back.  I'm also running a fresh engine and feeling
that out as well.  Anyway, after about 3 or 4 laps I'm just about done
bedding the brakes and I'm about to get lapped.  This is the first "Warm-up"
session of the weekend.  A red 2002 is approaching me and I waved him to the
left and moved to the right a little bit, while staying pretty close to the
line.  Next thing I know the guy is passing me on the right ON THE DIRT at
full speed. He re-entered the track, got a little squirrelly, threw some
rocks onto my car and kept going.  This guy was racing hard with a yellow
P1800 and not letting up one bit.  He didn't want to sacrifice his lap time
when overtaking me.  The level of aggression took me by surprise and made me
angry.  It was, after all the morning warm-up and I truly did my best to get
my job done safely and get off  
the race track.   I tell my friends and family, when they ask if it's  
dangerous, "You see, it's a gentlemen's sport and there's no prize money."
I would say that most of the drivers are safe and respectful of their
machines and their abilities but all it takes is one douchebag move and
you're in big trouble.

~SB


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