What is "experienced"?
What is "experienced"?
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agent006

Original Poster:

12,058 posts

287 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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A question raised from reading the Bedford thread.

At what point does one become an "experienced" trackday driver?



sniff petrol

13,124 posts

235 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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5+ ?

deviant

4,316 posts

233 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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Not if they did 5+ and constantly span or crashed on all of them...not really showing any progression in their skills if they dont improve by their 5th.

willr

363 posts

276 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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Experienced is when you can pull off overtakes on both sides, sometimes into the same corner.
Experienced is when you know better than the trackday organiser.
Experienced is when trackdays become a real bore, with too many drivers pussying around in their cars in front of you.

Sean Edwards

999 posts

233 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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willr said:
Experienced is when you can pull off overtakes on both sides, sometimes into the same corner.
Experienced is when you know better than the trackday organiser.
Experienced is when trackdays become a real bore, with too many drivers pussying around in their cars in front of you.
wink

Or when you can get within 2 seconds of me biggrin

Birdthom

790 posts

248 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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Not sure. I've done dozens but I'm still rubbish!

shim

2,051 posts

231 months

Sunday 20th January 2008
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Experienced is when the track day briefings get a bit like an in flight safety presentation by an Easijet stewardess

or so i am told

Edited by shim on Sunday 20th January 18:54

gtdc

4,259 posts

306 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2008
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It's a good question isn't it?

If you use one organiser regularly I guess it's when you're too quick for the slower group and you found that out by being in it and getting bored.

If you swap around a bit then it's worth talking to the organiser and seeing who/what else is in which group on the particular day.

Some ays get a load of v. quick stuff and some not. That might alter the group you go in.

Melindi
www.goldtrack.co.uk

chilled

588 posts

247 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2008
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It's when you remind the person giving the briefing what they have missed out at the end of it biggrin

thetrash

1,857 posts

229 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2008
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Experienced is when you know the storys off by heart they tell in the briefing. Yes we know that someone stopped to change a CD on the back straight at Snett and you lie when you said it was a couple of weeks ago because I've heard it everytime I've been there.

fergus

6,430 posts

298 months

Tuesday 22nd January 2008
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Surely number of trackdays attended is not necesserily positively correlated with increasing skill/awareness?

Just because you've sat through 20 odd breifings, doesn't indicate that you should go in the 'advanced' group, as this also becomes a function of the 'typical' speed of that group, not just the participants behind the wheel.

I'm sure Mr. Edwards would be quicker in a Clio than a novice in a Gallardo?



gtdc

4,259 posts

306 months

Wednesday 23rd January 2008
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thetrash said:
Experienced is when you know the storys off by heart they tell in the briefing. Yes we know that someone stopped to change a CD on the back straight at Snett and you lie when you said it was a couple of weeks ago because I've heard it everytime I've been there.
I've never heard that one. Must be pretty old if he wasn't fiddling with his ipod though.

Melindi
www.goldtrack.co.uk

Flying Peach

102 posts

219 months

Thursday 24th January 2008
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Ha Ha I've heard that one too.

phatgixer

4,988 posts

272 months

Thursday 24th January 2008
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gtdc said:
thetrash said:
Experienced is when you know the storys off by heart they tell in the briefing. Yes we know that someone stopped to change a CD on the back straight at Snett and you lie when you said it was a couple of weeks ago because I've heard it everytime I've been there.
I've never heard that one. Must be pretty old if he wasn't fiddling with his ipod though.

Melindi
www.crone.co.uk
Jimi Hendrix, perchance?

groomi

9,330 posts

266 months

Thursday 24th January 2008
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phatgixer said:
gtdc said:
thetrash said:
Experienced is when you know the storys off by heart they tell in the briefing. Yes we know that someone stopped to change a CD on the back straight at Snett and you lie when you said it was a couple of weeks ago because I've heard it everytime I've been there.
I've never heard that one. Must be pretty old if he wasn't fiddling with his ipod though.

Melindi
www.crone.co.uk
Jimi Hendrix, perchance?
Damn, beaten to it.

phatgixer

4,988 posts

272 months

Thursday 24th January 2008
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groomi said:
phatgixer said:
gtdc said:
thetrash said:
Experienced is when you know the storys off by heart they tell in the briefing. Yes we know that someone stopped to change a CD on the back straight at Snett and you lie when you said it was a couple of weeks ago because I've heard it everytime I've been there.
I've never heard that one. Must be pretty old if he wasn't fiddling with his ipod though.

Melindi
www.crone.co.uk
Jimi Hendrix, perchance?
Damn, beaten to it.
By 2 minutes! hehe

Amazing, as the tread has been winking at me since Sunday.