What’s with the contact? (Genuine question).
Certainly in the second incident, it looked like the other guy was being a dick, but not sure about the first one. What’s the ‘etiquette’ (for a non motorsport fan)?
Some of my friends used to race, same sort of thing, lots of very keen amateur in cars they built themselves, rather than wannabe Racers going up the ranks, trying to get into Pro racing etc.
I went to endless races before I got a bit bored of the early starts, and windy race track car parks waiting to see my mates race.
There wasn’t really much “Etiquette” really, there’s loads of rules, endless, but it was more about personality, in one series 1 of the guys who raced was in his 80s, ALWAYS last, ALWAYS at least 10 seconds a lap slower than everyone else, but people loved him, so he got loads of room etc, the rest of the field seemed only a few notches above banger racing and swapped paint every race. Mostly ended up as friends though.
In another when they started it was all very ‘grass roots’ mostly old hot hatches from the 80s, you had to have a full interior (bar a racing seat for driver) and you had to drive to and from the races. It meant no one spent a fortune on some highly strung race engine that needed a rebuild every other week and they tended not to go for dodgy gaps because they had to drive home in it. It was good at picking up newbies who sometimes got fed up of with the strict rules and progressed onto racier series.
Eventually the old guy who ran it, got pissed off or pushed out and it all went a bit mental. One infamous guy bought the most inappropriate for racing Alfa Romeo saloon for it, it was way too big, way too heavy and way too FWD for the above. He spent a fortune on having all sorts of carbon panels made for it to try to lighten it, and they got very upset when cars came together. All very chaotic, guys would arrive in Ferrari’s, ex-Super Saloon racers, rally prepped Escort Cosworths retrospectively modded for track use, but the core of the field were like this series, cheap hatchbacks turned cheap race cars, okay they were much faster than the Aygo, but compared to the front runners MILES off. What happens when people in 100k Racing Cars compete against much slower £5k home-made racing cars? Arguments mostly, and occasionally expensive crashes and very occasionally offers to sort it out in the car park.
It’s unfortunate that the other Car ended up on it’s roof, but that’s racing. As BR said, he didn’t have a mirror and with winged seat and helmet you don’t have much, if any peripheral vision. They both seemed pretty chill about it, IME even the nicest people are complete dicks when they’re Racing.
