<misc> Driving under yellow

Subject: <misc> Driving under yellow
From: "Kennedy Simon" <Kennedy_Simon@domain.elided>
Date: 25 Jul 1996 16:06:57 -0500

Brian wrote:

>...I have also noticed that very few of my fellow BMWCCAers respond to >the
yellow flag on the 1st and last laps.  They go balls out begining to
>end,trying to maximize their time at speed.  That is very frustrating >and
irresponsible.  For what its worth.

And I couldn't agree more.  I personally like to warm up my tires and brakes,
get to know the locations of the corner workers, refresh my memory of the
track, and generally settle-in the first lap or two, and it's very distracting
to have fellow drivers, many or most of whom I'll later re-pass (my car is
relatively fast, and in theory we're all at about the same level of ability
since we're all in the same run-group), screaming up behind me right out of
the box.  I'm not sure if it'll help, but I'd like to add my plea to Brian's:
could everybody calm down a little, especially run one, day one?

Actually letting your car cool down on the cool down lap, BTW, might minimize
all these warped rotors/brake fade/lousy pad posts we get.

Simon Kennedy
'95 M3