Re: Track Days: Two Groups Vs Three (roadkill)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by roadkill »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Well, we are all happy that you are now "back in service". Now, get those lap times down, ya hear?
I am not clear what difference it would make to have two groups instead of three...think it would be worse...now you would divide the riding world into novice and almost-a-pro.....real life don't work like that. Every track and group that puts on track days does the three group thing for a BIG reason. Yeah, I see big gaps in Intermediate (where I ride cuz I ain't as fast as most guys on this board) and am frustrated that guys I know well and are dear friends ride in Intermediate cuz they have been riding for twenty years....but they wouldn't know a race line if you spray painted it on the track and are pathetically slow, have never moved their asses off the seat in their lives and create a real danger cuz they have such nonsensical lines (got a lesson when I passed one of my best friends who was in la-la land and he turned into me, his front wheel hitting the back of my boot and can, I stood it up and rode off the track, okay, he went down and ended up in the hospital). But you need that middle group and have to just accept that you are going to have to be extra alert and that, yeah, what we do carries dangers (13 months now with a broken ankle that won't heal and never will....my Aircast is nasty looking but all I've got). Three groups works.
Keep on a healin', bud.</TD></TR></TABLE>
First, wishing you a full recovery.
Second, I am a intermediate level rider. And, I find that the advanced group -of a two group track day -has all of the most experienced riders and is limited to just some yahoos. The intermediate group in a three tier track day, in my experience, has alot of yahoos and fewer advanced riders. Most accidents, according to Fasttrack Riders, occur in the level two/intermediate group. I, therefore, prefer to ride in the advanced group of a two tier track day.
Modified by socal at 8:07 PM 8/22/2005