Rear-ended at Anglesey
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This isn’t a rant, or even a complaint. These things can happen. I just wanted to mention it.
On the International GP circuit, on the straight up to the hairpin. In the braking zone I got a nudge from the car behind. I’d been checking my mirrors, but had no idea he was there. Didn’t even know I’d been hit, because I didn’t think anyone was there. Thought it was some sort of brake disk or pad failure.
I don’t have a central rear view mirror, but always keep a good look in my wing mirrors to see who’s coming. But I know Radicals can catch me by surprise. On this occasion it was a slick-shod Atom.
I’m not really sure how this happened. The Atom driver said he thought I’d seen him. I stayed right for a moment on the straight while I checked my mirrors. He may have interpreted this as letting him past.
I’m not happy, but I’m not blaming the other driver. It could be argued he is at fault because he hit me from behind. But I’ve decided to think of it as an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Anyway, the damage wasn’t enough to prevent either car continuing ‘till the end of the day. And Anglesey is still worth the 4 hour drive from Northampton.
Edited by SpudLink on Tuesday 7th May 15:12
Steve H said:
Good way of looking at it.
Atoms etc are hard work on a trackday unless you are very good with traffic, I got shunted by a radical in a school car once because his pace well exceeded his ability to judge everyone else's
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Sorry for hijack, Steve, sent you a pm through PH about tuition a few weeks ago. Did you receive it?Atoms etc are hard work on a trackday unless you are very good with traffic, I got shunted by a radical in a school car once because his pace well exceeded his ability to judge everyone else's
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.Steve H said:
Good way of looking at it.
Atoms etc are hard work on a trackday unless you are very good with traffic, I got shunted by a radical in a school car once because his pace well exceeded his ability to judge everyone else's.
ETA, I assume you mean you had stayed right for a moment??
The two instances of car to car contact on days I’ve been on have involved a radical and an atom over taking in what is a braking zone for the car in front then switching the brakes on and being run into the back of by the car they’ve just over taken.Atoms etc are hard work on a trackday unless you are very good with traffic, I got shunted by a radical in a school car once because his pace well exceeded his ability to judge everyone else's
.ETA, I assume you mean you had stayed right for a moment??
Would be insteresting to see a vid of the OPs incident as genuine confusion over consent is extremely rare imo... not that blame matters much as we’re always in for our own car and to keep track days affordable that has to be the case.
Ive been on many track days, the by far best working solution ive experienced is the use of the blinkers to confirm that you pull aside to let someone by. then you dont need to only overtake on very long straights to do it safely. It will always be challenging when track days have cars with to much of a speed difference, slicks for example are seldom ok for track days where i live.
Black_S3 said:
Would be insteresting to see a vid of the OPs incident as genuine confusion over consent is extremely rare imo...
Video ...https://streamable.com/u06jq
It's almost undetectable, but a moment after I brake you can see the car move to the right as I get a touch from the rear. As I said it wasn't much of an impact.
Watching it back now, I honestly can't see that I did anything wrong.
You can see me checking my mirrors, before moving to take the normal line.
Having read the various comments, it wasn’t a misunderstanding, he was just a knob.
The fibreglass defuser is cracked but not broken. It’s attached to a metal grill which is bent out of shape. The worst of it is the brackets holding the grill were bonded to the fibreglass. Reattaching them will be a specialist job.
The fibreglass defuser is cracked but not broken. It’s attached to a metal grill which is bent out of shape. The worst of it is the brackets holding the grill were bonded to the fibreglass. Reattaching them will be a specialist job.
.SpudLink said:
Black_S3 said:
Would be insteresting to see a vid of the OPs incident as genuine confusion over consent is extremely rare imo...
Video ...https://streamable.com/u06jq
It's almost undetectable, but a moment after I brake you can see the car move to the right as I get a touch from the rear. As I said it wasn't much of an impact.
Watching it back now, I honestly can't see that I did anything wrong.
You can see me checking my mirrors, before moving to take the normal line.
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