[quote="apollyon25"]
Chill Mr Toad.
I'm hardly going to be spoiling it for everyone as:
a) I live in New Zealand
b) We have different rules
c) I dont have any laptiming/logging/gps equipment
d) I have far more objectionable material on my laptop than laptimes...
Although I hardly see the difference between looking at the data at home and looking on the day in the pits.
I also know of no-one who has not got more than "anything other than digital photos" on their laptop.
Good lord man! WHAT IF YOUVE GOT SOME TRACK TELEMETRY DATA AS YOUR BACKGROUND?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!
So my question is 'why not?'
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Jared,
I assumed that your question was following the rest of the tread and applied to UK track days. The way it was phrased made no reference to NZ and so it sort of looked like you were asking a follow up question to John's initial query.
What happens in the southern hemisphere is pretty irrelevant to most of us here, and I'm surprised that you thought that any of us would have a clue what the rules were down under.
The reason why not - if indeed your follow up question relates to the previous content of the tread, and not the question "is it raining in Bogota today?" is as Bruce pointed out in an earlier thread. TDOs get their public liability insurance on the basis that their events are social, not competitive. If you make them competitive, even by competing against yourself, in theory you are breaking the rules, and if, God forbid, you were involved in an accident killing or injuring someone, and were found to be doing this, then I suspect that both you and the TDO would be wide open to a full negligence claim from the injured party for willfully putting everyone at risk by behaving in a way that was specifically prohibited.
Unfortunately telling a Judge or injured party to "chill" in that situation would probably not be considered proper mitigation, so it is worth taking the point relatively seriously.
For experienced drivers, a little competition or race overtaking is something they can live with as long as they are anticipating it. For novices, and there are generally a few of these on any track day, that kind of competition can be seriously intimidating, and potentially dangerous, which is the main reason that timing and on track data analysis are so frowned upon.