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Originally Posted by bigred875  no, cliff notes 
The riders meeting in the morning was a bit long winded and confusing. The 2 leaders had a debate in front of the class about the flags. The was prompted from the incident at the last trackday. I feel any discussions with the management team should have been don before the meeting started. Then there was still some more confusion about the flags. They initially said 2 flags red and yellow, then 3 yellow, red, and black?hen as soon as we walked out of the meeting someone said something about a checkered flag over the loud speaker.
I think 2 follow the leader sessions in B is overkill. If riders want to do the second one it should be optional IMO. |
You will only see two flags here today... Red, Yellow and Black.
My take is that after the 1st event saftey was overly stressed. Personally my 2nd FTL was a disaster. Maybe I missed something but I had no idea it was a FTL and even after I realized it the execution was aweful. There was no falling back into line and basically the FTL turned into a large train and in the end it was a huge waste of time. To the point that I would have pulled off if it lasted another lap or two. Then we had one on track experience followed by what felt like hours of meetings, lunch, etc. Because the weather was awesome a lot of this is masked, but there was huge amounts of time wasted. The whole standing red flag >> pit out thing caught me also in turn 11 at the end of the day. It turned into a judgement call if I was supposed to pit in or do another lap not really something I should be thinking about at that time. It is a little weird typing this as I had an awesome day but feel like I am bitching at the same time. The value of the event is great but you can definately feel the lack of experience.
-Dave