Stage notes

Morison Wrote:
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> david amor Wrote:
> > I hate Jemba because it gives distances
> EXACTLY as
> > they measure out.
> > When I write my own notes I can call 200M
> what I
> > think 200m LOOKS like. Then on subsequent
> passes
> > and the actual stage that 200m will ALWAYS
> look
> > like 200m to me even if it's really 500m.
>
> Dave, you missed April 1 by a couple of days.
>
> Every time I have used an odo to measure
> 'perception' distances I have found that they are
> usually astoundingly inconsistent. After enough
> pace noting with measured distances, perception
> gains accuracy and consistency but I still prefer
> to recce with an odo.
>
> The drivers who have been the most adamant about
> wanting 'their perception' in the notes are the
> ones that I've found have the biggest float in
> that distance. 200+ isn't a biggie, although in
> limited visibility you'll be feeling for the
> corner without the ability for the codriver to
> zero the interval and count down the straight. L4,
> 300, ! ruf cat grd, 500, R3 ... in dust you'd
> seriously want to be able to get a solid reference
> on all of those elements.
>
> If your 70 is sometimes 100 and sometimes 40 (seen
> this in real life pace noting) then exactly how
> will you take the crest, 70, L @ T?
>
> For the record, I've had discussions about this
> with co-drivers with strokes through and/or dots
> above letters in their names.


I know you're probably right but when I've decided what the distance/severity of a corner is I don't find my perceptions changed when I see it at speed. Yes on stupid long straights like the one at Baie where I hit 205kph before I backed off, My co-driver was counting down by hundreds for a KM cause I was sure I'd miss the L at T at the end. But Jemba scared me. The distances just SEEMED so wrong and I could not go fast on them.

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Gone fishing

I know what David means. I remember hearing an interview with Nicky Grist and he was talking about how the note is which gear they're in. When I make my pace notes, I do a mix of this concept and severity of corner. So if it is a 4 in Jemba notes, but is downhill and off camber, I'll make it a 3 or 3+ so that I go into it at an appropriate speed and caution. This does cost me time, but hey, I'm still young.
I don't mind the distances, my biggest pet peeve is when their close to the same. 200 L4 200 R3 200 over crest 200 into L2 into R2 200. That's a bit of an exaggeration and the worst I've experience this in was someone elses pace notes that I used as a starting point, but we didn't have time to make our own. Driver and myself both got a little confused. I went through and added 20-30 and subtracted 20-30 just to differentiate between them.

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Grant Hughes

Yeah, we tried the McCrae "in-gear" style at first but with 5th gear at that time impossibly long it left only 1-4. And you need a 5 and maybe a 6 just like, why have amps that only go to ten......

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Gone fishing

Without a proper gearbox/setup you can't think of it as which gear you need to be in, but it can be what speed you should be at. A 3 is inherently slower than a 4...

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Grant Hughes