Pls read if attending Japfest

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I got the "bird" last japfest 1 track session coming out of quarry ! I\'d been behind a 185 bhp del la sol for 2 laps and then he let me past in the 130 bhp colt an give me the finger!!! its on you tube somewhere he had a on board cam front an rear 2 corners later i\'m gone in the distance.

Its really difficult to judge but if someones in your mirror they are quicker but if your up some it else then the driver behind should realise that ....depends how frustrated  you get.......on an open pit don\'t matter pull off join q and re join. On a session very annoying!

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Noticed club stand says Gate B.......That means were in main paddock area !

[shaunwil]

We are in Area D on the map on the website, hope it isn\'t a nightmare getting on track.

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2012/04/27/2012-club-layout/

Shaun

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We are in Area D on the map on the website, hope it isn\'t a nightmare getting on track.

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2012/04/27/2012-club-layout/

Shaun

Should be reasonable to get on track as dont have to leave the circuit. But not in Paddock but next to Avon Rise which is the fastest part of the circuit so as we have the fastest cars its appropriate:D:D:D:D  

However any queuing is going to be a nightmare as its basically the 2nd gate from both sides!!!!! So leave plenty of time!  Us on track session A are in for a early start!
 Cant wait :3gears-lh:3gears-rh:burnout:burnout:3gears-lh

[RX8Head]

Any news re the BTCC cars being out in our sessions I know Graham got them removed from the RX8OC sessions.
@Booster not quite the paddock area if you look at the map on the Japfest site but the good thing is it looks as if MRC and RX8OC are once again going to be near each which in cool.

[Lisa]

Hi Chris

This is what we received back from Japfest:-

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for your e-mail and for raising your concerns about this activity.

As we discussed on the phone previously I would like to reassure you that these drivers are 100% professional experienced drivers who are used to being on track with Novices’ and first timers. They are going out with our Novice session and did so last year and there were no complaints about dangerous driving or lack of courtesy on track from these cars.

There will be only 2 additional cars in the session with you, these are professional drivers taking out visitors to the event for a passenger ride. The drivers go into the same briefing as everyone else and must follow the same rules as all other track users.

As the drivers are so experienced and this is a feature of the event, Castle Combe allows the additional track places for this activity.

Since the concerns raised by the RX-8 OC, I have also had a talk with the drivers of these cars myself to doubly make sure that they are aware of track rules and respect all drivers on track at the same time as them and they have committed to this as it’s in their interest to do so.

At this stage I am not going to be able to pull these sessions for the passenger rides as they’ve now been booked up. However I would like to personally apologise that you were not made aware of this before, it was a last minute arrangement and I wrongly thought that this would not affect the track users since there were no problems last year.

I hope you can see that we are very sorry for this miscommunication and I can assure you it won’t happen again.

However, if they’re still not happy and some people want to get a refund for their pass then we can do that but we will have to resell these places on the day as the track time is in very high demand at Japfest.

I hope you can accept the apology and please pass this message on you your drivers.

[shaunwil]

As long as they follow the pass rule correctly I have absolutely no problem with them out on track. They should be black flagged just the same as any other driver for dangerous overtakes.

Shaun

[Clarky]

A good idea would be to have a sticker on the rear of each car to say the driver is a novice or first timer, this would be is a warning to other drivers.

[shaunwil]

This also goes with people blocking a queue of traffic on the straights. Sometimes that can be just as dangerous because it forces a dangerous overtake.

Shaun

[RX8Head]

Cheers for the update Lisa so I guess that means the BTCC cars are going to be out in are session :reallymad.

It\'s not so much of an issue for me that we have pro drivers out in our session but more it was sold to us all by Japfest as a club session and not an open session to who ever wanted to book in on it.  This was a great way to show off rotaries out on track, plus there is also the point that the sessions were limited to 20 cars for safety reasons and now because it suits them they are raising this to 22 and we(MRC) would have been able to fill these other spaces.

I know this isn\'t your fault Lisa but I think it is very bad of Japfest :spankto  change things at the last minute and then just try make clubs except it.

[shaunwil]

Its a big show, there is huge demand for track time and they can do stuff like this. Just one of those things. Some of the rotors out there may want the BTCC cars to get out of the way (not mine !). Anybody know if they are running slicks as well ?

Shaun

[RX8Head]

I know Graham got them removed from both of our RX8OC sessions due to it not being in the contact that he had with Japfest.

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I say let them out first then we can hunt em down and scalp em !!! Rotor versus piston!!!........only joking prob gonna get lapped now......

[Lisa]

The cars will be going out first and will come back in half way through

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The cars will be going out first and will come back in half way through

with there scalps missing......