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Originally Posted by David Pozzi
Another thing you will learn is having a car on your butt will mess up your driving. You are allready 100% focused on driving your car, then a fast vette get's on your tail and you will start driving even harder to shake him or at least show him you are not so slow. THAT'S when you are most likely to drop a wheel off the track or make some other mistake. I tend to hurry my shifts when I'm in that situation and can sometimes miss a shift.
David
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This is very true, I had a someone pass my on the long straight at T-hill. Once we got into turn 1 I could tell he was overdoing it. He had to keep up the speed because he thought he was faster than I was(possibly was?) he didn't want to pass me and then have me on his ass. We went into turn 2 and he went really deep. Well 2/3's of the way into turn 2(high speed long decreasing radius turn) he literally lost confidence in the turn, ran wide, and went right off the track at prob 80-90mph. He went into the turn faster than he was comfortable with because he felt pressured to keep up the speed. THat was his mistake, I could of made a mistake by trying to speed up to not let him pass me, then I would of been the one to probably go off. But on a bike its cool because you can pass people IN the turn all day long, its harder to do in a car, and some track organizers don't allow it.