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1.
A standard GP track is +/-
2 miles long, predominantly right handers. The NurburgRing
is
some 14.5 miles long and has 24 major bends. It is also highly contoured. See the general
map, the GP circuit is the little appendix hanging off the bottom. No plan can adequately
prepare one for the rises and falls however. Also on the N’Ring
it is said that if you can’t see the
castle it is raining and if you can see the castle it’s about to rain!
NurburgRing
Notes
6. Before the track itself is explored, safety first in the event of a spill:
If you are first on a scene:
Park up safely –
do not be the cause of another impact
Take your helmet off and go back up the track as quickly and as far as reasonably
possible to warn oncoming traffic (these 2 acts alone can save further incidents)
The next on the scene can attend to the fallen rider. If he/she
is conscious put him/her on
his/her back undo his/her helmet and with a colleague supporting
the underside of his/her
neck pull the sides of the helmet outwards and peal it off using
the rear (neck) edge as the
fulcrum then roll the casualty into the recovery position and phone the track incident
number.
It is important to ensure the casualty’s airways are clear, both in respect to vomit and
swallowing the tongue.
7. So to the riding instruction. You may only learn as few as 4
of the 8 sections over the 2
days. These are learned by parking up and walking the sections in both directions, having
humps, hollows, turning and apex points as well as changes in the road surface, bushes,
trees, signs and other strategic markers pointed out. All of which help too imprint the line.
2. Instruction by Actionteam
instructors is more
focussed on learning the track itself rather than
track riding techniques.
3. In order to assist, the track is divided into 8
notional sections of +/-
3 Km and is learned
section by section.
4. The essence is to use, as instructed, the
turning and apex dots on the track; to relax the
arms and shoulders, point your elbow into the
bend, look forward to the exit and accelerate at
the turning-in dot rather than when a bend
opens up. Roadcraft
techniques are different
as there is no oncoming traffic, lampposts etc.
5. Actionteam
organise the attendees for the 2
days into groups. It is possible to change
group if the initial allocation is too fast/too slow
for an individual rider’s ability, so speed does
not have to be an issue.
By Eddy Lambah-Stoate, CVAM