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[ianu]

..must admit quite a nice platter of 'motor' coverage on TV this weekend.
The GP - great to see some wheel to wheel action for a change for most of the race. Refreshing to see Vetell having timeout for one race at least - do you think it was team orders  . Did anyone else notice Webber's baseball cap during the Jake Humphries interview - it had a '2' on the peak ....subtle as a brick  .
TG - although entertaining - some of the staged features get a bit predictable but I suppose they come under the banner 'I wonder what would happen if  :question".. The Jensen Interceptor..I love that car - although nothing like the E-type originally - but exactly like the E-type today it just demands to be brought up to date and re built with new technology.

I've been on a few track days too - and agree entirely the points at which your head says 'this ain't natural' and the cars say 'you want me to do what  ' - are miles apart. I've never even been close - a hot lap as a passenger has had me way past my 'god luck' point but still well within the limits of the car. A game of cat and mouse around Donnington as a passenger a few years ago 1st in a VXR Corsa chasing the Vectra - and then the VXR Vectra chasing the Corsa...taught me my brain would probably never let me get close -mental. I had a go in the VXR8 and was terrified I was going to put it in the cat litter. Jason Plato makes it look so natural  :-/ :-/
Hey ho - I then watched the Californian Moto GP last night - although it too got a bit boring - I know what you mean Chris about the camera angles. Unless your up close and personal or have a decent reference point it really doesn't do it justice - but breathtaking nonetheless. The corkscrew bend on that circuit must be akin to downhill skiing ... if you think about it for a nano second - your toast.. awesome (watching it on the TV at Silverstone a few weeks back in the rain takes the term nerves of steel to a different planet - in fact I think they must have any nerves removed as it's beyond even downhill skiing if you ask me)

One final thought about knowing when to brake or trying your chance at making up those vital seconds that will one day come in really handy by leaving it a tad late to slow down from a ridiculous speed: You might have the grip, you might have the line just right - but if you toast the brakes - you ain't stoppin'  . Only happened once to me coming of a motorway slip road.....so so so luckily the road was clear ahead and the lights changed to green just as I ran out of stopping distance for the lights.... I have now moved my reference point back a few hundred meters just to be on the safe side.. - it was a serious underwear changing experience 

Cheers
Ian.

[feeutfo]

It is all in the head. Some just don't care if it all goes wrong. Freeing the mind somewhat.

Some techniques help. Looking at the right section of track made a big difference for me at Silverstone. Maggots beckets chapel, kept braking for the first left kink into maggots. It's not a corner ya idiot, I eventually said to myself. Look beyond that to the next right, which is a corner, and all was well. First visit and learning. Now they've bloody changed part of it it.