JT> They say a typical F1 driver can "imagine" driving around the
JT> track in their minds, with a stopwatch in their hand clicking
JT> every time they cross the start-stop line. Apparently, each
JT> 'imaginary' lap is the same as all the others, to within a
JT> second or so.

 I saw the AGP at Warwick Farm when it was a real race with real
drivers (not the Ecclestone Circus), and I was amazed how precise they
were. We were sitting at the corner just before the long straight, and
every lap was *exactly* the same! At the time, "THEY" (the alleged
experts) said that Brabham never drove the same lap twice, but his
gear-change was the same to an inch and a millisecond, every lap.

 I've been trying to get that heee-haar change ever since. And in
those days (1961?) they used manual box with a clutch and everything.

> cops now patrol Majors Bay Road, Cabarita Road, and the run up to
> Broughton Street. They leave Concord Road to the camera. It's a
> joke, now. You come off the bridge headign south and everyone
> does 75K, you come over the hill to the traffic lights, everyoen
> drops to 50K to be on the safe side, past the cameras

> You don't even have to know it's there now - everyone around you
> suddenly slows to 50K. If you're on a strange road and that
> happens, slow down!

 That's right. If you forget, you run up the back of the guy in
front.

> When I got my licence there was no P, and no 100K limit on the
> highway, either.

JT> Isn't that 80Km/h, or is that for Ls?

 Who cares about p-drivers? The *general* speed is now 100K. Back in
the 60s the general speed was whatever was safe. Lex Davidson argued
in court that he was safe at 200K on the way back from Bathurst... and
won!

JT> but while on the bike P's, I remember "losing" my P plate on
JT> the freeway, (no really, I DID loose it on the freeway, I just
JT> didn't notice till four months later when I was fully licenced
JT> and tried to remove the plate). Anyway, it was amazing that
JT> overnight, everyone stops aiming for you, and actually treats
JT> you like every other road user, more or less indifferent. 

> Does it? I never treat P plates any differently, expect perhaps I
> don't monster them (in case they do something unexpected).

JT> That's just you Bob, one driver doesn't make a squat of
JT> difference.

 Or maybe it's just you... *expecting* to be treated differently.

 I treat "L" drivers differently. You never know what they're going
to do.

JT> I can pass 100+ cars in a typical ride to work. You get to
JT> "meet" all sorts. 

 Pass as in "overtake," or pass as in pass-by? In peak hours, I
overtake hardly anyone. We're all going the same speed.

Regards,
Bob
   

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