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Originally Posted by noemon
No matter what rules are communicated or what nonsensical TF rules apply, the fact remains that it is up to the overtaking driver to exercise caution and to ensure that they have been noticed by the car in front.
Everything else is bullocks and assumptions.
All the [moral] blame lies with the Porsche and that is the line all people concerned with safety should be saying regardless of final outcome.
Noone cares if the driver in front is bad, unaware, a noob or whatever else, this is even more reason for the “experienced” ones to exercise caution.
There are many situations where another driver may not be up to the task, we dont probe these situations cause the law may be on our side, we sit back.
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All of this.
The track school/days I attend have different groups that go out on track and within those groups there are riders of varying levels (1 through 4). Sometimes there are lots of level 1s in a group and times there are lots/exclusively level 4s in a group. Level 1s are the riders that have the least experience at the school and level 4s have the most. If there are mixing of riding levels, the school places the level 1s and 4s together. The ideology is that the level 4s have the experience and judgement to be able to handle any potential erratic riding behaviors from level 1 riders. Hence my initial comments in this thread from my perspective with the track days/school I've been attending which to me seems to be so much more logical than what appears to be an hope and pray environment of a TF at the Ring.
I'll echo the sentiments that I would never get on track at the Ring during a TF. Heck, there are track days at a nearby track I can attend that I don't because of what I've heard concerning riders that show up thinking they're the next Rossi, Martin, or Marquez.