On Piston Heads there has been a discussion about track days with regard to overcrowding and poor driving in which mention is made of a GT40. The bit that got my goat is when the GT40 was lumped in with slow cars such as the Ford Fiesta!!!!!!!! That is stooping low.
I have no gripes with anyone wishing to look after their pride and joy on track and their not wishing to bend it or stone chip it etc. However reading between the lines and from my own experience as a track day regular, it seems said car was driving exceptionally poorly/slowly and not using the mirrors causing mucho grief to the cars behind! No excuse not to use mirrors and I would not accept the excuse that a 40 has bad rear vision to justify not seeing a huge gaggle of cars behind!
I don't know whose car this was or who was driving it (I believe it to be a Gulf coloured car but not mine or even Charles's as I would even credit him with being able to go faster than this) so if you know who this guy was, could someone please have a quiet word in his ear and ask him to try a little bit of throttle application and use the bl***y mirrors. We don't want GT40s to be stereotyped into being cars that others hope to avoid seeing on track days.
Rant over, nomex on!
I have no gripes with anyone wishing to look after their pride and joy on track and their not wishing to bend it or stone chip it etc. However reading between the lines and from my own experience as a track day regular, it seems said car was driving exceptionally poorly/slowly and not using the mirrors causing mucho grief to the cars behind! No excuse not to use mirrors and I would not accept the excuse that a 40 has bad rear vision to justify not seeing a huge gaggle of cars behind!
I don't know whose car this was or who was driving it (I believe it to be a Gulf coloured car but not mine or even Charles's as I would even credit him with being able to go faster than this) so if you know who this guy was, could someone please have a quiet word in his ear and ask him to try a little bit of throttle application and use the bl***y mirrors. We don't want GT40s to be stereotyped into being cars that others hope to avoid seeing on track days.
Rant over, nomex on!
