Just Thought I'd Share a Little Story
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This doesn't really have any points to start a big discussion on, but it made me smile at 7 o'clock this morning 
It started off as I was standing outside a co - workers's car waiting for him to unlock the doors ( I car share with a couple of guys I work beside ). Just as I'm about to step inside, a Royal Mail lorry ( one of the big ones ) comes flying past doing about 60mph in a 30. First thought is: what a maniac. That's not the best idea for a number of obvious reasons.
Just at the end of the street, the road opens out into a fast, sweeping coast road, beginning with a quick right - then - left chicane. The lorry, still barreling along, turns sharply right then sharply left and as I think to myself " he's going to die just now ", the back end steps out and he hold a perfect drift around the corner
.
Just as another car comes into view, the lorry beautifully corrects the oversteer and carries on with his journey. Like I say, not much of a topic for discussion, but it put a big smile on my face. It would have been a really cool picture too, with the bright red lorry kicking up dust and feeding in a dab of oppo right in front of a freshly risen sun.
Good on you my fiend
It started off as I was standing outside a co - workers's car waiting for him to unlock the doors ( I car share with a couple of guys I work beside ). Just as I'm about to step inside, a Royal Mail lorry ( one of the big ones ) comes flying past doing about 60mph in a 30. First thought is: what a maniac. That's not the best idea for a number of obvious reasons.
Just at the end of the street, the road opens out into a fast, sweeping coast road, beginning with a quick right - then - left chicane. The lorry, still barreling along, turns sharply right then sharply left and as I think to myself " he's going to die just now ", the back end steps out and he hold a perfect drift around the corner
.Just as another car comes into view, the lorry beautifully corrects the oversteer and carries on with his journey. Like I say, not much of a topic for discussion, but it put a big smile on my face. It would have been a really cool picture too, with the bright red lorry kicking up dust and feeding in a dab of oppo right in front of a freshly risen sun.
Good on you my fiend
It's all about perspective; the Daily Wail would have reported it as 'bus queue of nuns, children and OAPs almost killed several times and asphyxiated by the exhaust fumes of evil juggernaut of death driven by a callous homicidal public sector leech.' I guess running on remoulds makes drifting a bit easier; be sure and have a camera ready next time! 
It's not often you hear stories like that Similar, but different........?!?!?
On tour with one of the the footy teams I coached one Easter a few years back, staying in a caravan park outside of Bournemouth (
). One of the boys develops very severe stomach cramps, GP parent diagnoses Appendicitis, ambulance called.
It turns up 10 mins later, old guy at the wheel, tells me this could be his last B&2 as it's his last shift before retiring. Young lad goes in the back with parent, I'm in front with old boy driver.
I have never, ever seen vehicle control like it, 100mph+ along dual carriage ways, measured lift off & braking, roundabouts taken at great speed with no disturbance for those in the back at all, and smooth and controlled at all times.
I've been in lots of very fast cars on and off track as a driver and passenger in my 45 years, and to this day that was the most impressive piece of driving I've ever seen.
The only thing I could do to say thank you was to buy him a Ginsters and coffee at the 24hr BP opposite Poole hospital, as the facilities in the hospital were all shut at that time.
If I close my eyes I can still recount the 10 or so mile ride into the hospital. Respect
to you sir, wherever you are now...
On tour with one of the the footy teams I coached one Easter a few years back, staying in a caravan park outside of Bournemouth (
). One of the boys develops very severe stomach cramps, GP parent diagnoses Appendicitis, ambulance called.It turns up 10 mins later, old guy at the wheel, tells me this could be his last B&2 as it's his last shift before retiring. Young lad goes in the back with parent, I'm in front with old boy driver.
I have never, ever seen vehicle control like it, 100mph+ along dual carriage ways, measured lift off & braking, roundabouts taken at great speed with no disturbance for those in the back at all, and smooth and controlled at all times.
I've been in lots of very fast cars on and off track as a driver and passenger in my 45 years, and to this day that was the most impressive piece of driving I've ever seen.
The only thing I could do to say thank you was to buy him a Ginsters and coffee at the 24hr BP opposite Poole hospital, as the facilities in the hospital were all shut at that time.
If I close my eyes I can still recount the 10 or so mile ride into the hospital. Respect
to you sir, wherever you are now...hidetheelephants said:
Special K said:
I've been passenger in an oversteering artic and can tell you it is both utterly brilliant and terrifying at the same time
I'm trying to picture drifting an artic, and the physics is melting my brain; was this with or without a trailer?Ive found that rigid HGVs are particularly predictable and easy to drift - far more so than cars. I was unfortunate enough to discover this firstly when a load sensing valve failed in the wet, and secondly when I cam across spilled grain on a long sweeping NSL corner...
Anyone driving a vehicle like that on the road, even a 7.5t van, is a f
king imbecile. Id be tempted to complain to the TC, to ensire that something was done about it.
Anyone driving a vehicle like that on the road, even a 7.5t van, is a f
king imbecile. Id be tempted to complain to the TC, to ensire that something was done about it.
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