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Posted 2/15/2008 2:21:46 PM


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There were a bunch of Boston Chapter guys at the July 07 event at Calabogie last year. Friday of the three day event was constant moderate rain. I was very happy to be able to drive windows up and use turn signals for passing. It was very safe and no one had a problem. Another thing the organizers did was make all passing to the left for all passing zones on the entire track. It sure made it easy to remember which side to pass on. Perhaps that wouldn't work at all tracks, but something to think about. It also works at the Nurburgring.

Mike Smith, DelVal Chapter


It turns out that left hand point-bys are mandated by national.

National rules (for everything) are here: http://www.bmwcca.org/files/policies/BMWCCAOpsManual.pdf

DE rules are on page 38 (document page numbers, not adobe's guess).

I don't know why we don't use turn signals, but I think it is more important that we all do the same thing. I've done turn signal events and i find it disorienting. I run with 6+ clubs every year and I don't want to be confused about how to point-by. Left hand is the standard. I haven't done turnsignal pointbys except with Trillium (BMWCCC ontario). We're stuck.


Passing on the left everywhere works on some tracks and is dangerous on others. It is nice if the rule is easy to understand, like "pass to the inside of the next corner". But honestly, I've done events where passing side isn't specified and it isn't bad, at least not in the advanced group.
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