OT: Speed Awareness Course tonight

We bumped into Colin McRae's chief engineer one year and he joined in with our party. At 4:30 in the morning we piled 11 people into a hired people carrier and he was driving. We lifted the concrete barrier out the way and got onto the track. First hairpin bend he buried it into a gravel trap so when we slid the door open, the gravel came in.

Scratching at someones tent to borrow the Land Rover to pull us out.

He still hasn't lived the incident down

 

They get desperate late on according to my brother. If the arrests are low, they will literally go on a pulling over frenzy. Their theory is that if you stop enough cars one of them must be doing something wrong, whether that be drugs, drink or just your car not being roadworthy in some way. I commented to my brother that this is why everyones hates the police because they spend way too much time worrying about statistics instead of actually stoppping real crime. He said "yeah but if your wage and job depended on those staistics, would you give a **** about anything else?" Hard to argue with but I suppose we all hope that some of them got into the profession to make a difference!!

 

I like motor sport, the noise and smell does it for me. Been to croft a few times for bikes and touring cars, might go again soon i think!!

 

Got 6 points already mate. Insurance getting a bit daft on the R32. Keep trying to tell them it's only a bloody Golf!

 

Iv seen it done

 

Got my driving test on Monday

 

Good luck. Loan you my car in about two months time when I'm banned. Ha

 

I've been on two which is lucky as you normally only get one chance.
Pretty boring to be honest. Show videos on speeding and you have to do mock Hazard Perception tests.
Free Tea and Coffee tho

 

Do you get biscuits? What about a coconut slice?

 

No unfortunately. Tea was rank also

 

them traffic cops are nobheads pull u over for any reason they can also make you take your car to local vosa for a inspection and if they find faults give a 14 day notice to fix it ,around my way especially ,i wouldnt like to live round slough ive seen road wars ha ha

 

Feck all, not even an iced bun or cheese scone. Tea/coffee from a vending machine too. We all know the sort, brown water with no taste of tea, coffee or anything in particular. Personally I considered taking them to a tribunal for failing to provide adequate welfare. It was the lack of scones that upset me given it was mid afternoonish on completion and therefore ripe for a hot buttered cheese scone.

 

The bloke we had recommended a van round the corner which did Indian takeaways, I had a pelican tikka which was fantastic.

The bill was a bit hefty mind you.

 

Arf arf arf.

 

A waste of time in my opinion! I mean who isn't already aware of the dangers of speed. I'm just took the points! **** them,

 

From what i've heard being nice to the instructor is almost as important as your driving, my sister crashed into a bollard but because she talking to the instructor about his kids she passed (the lucky cow).

 

i think your sister is telling you a load of pony n trap
the instructor doesnt pass you thats the tester and as soon as you hit a kerb or anything else .......... fail

 

I actually was caught doing 33mph in a 30mph zone. That's how I ended up on the Speed awareness the first time. They only offer it to you
if a marginally over the speed limit.

Edit. That 10% lee-way is only applicable in non-built up areas ie motorways and dual carriage ways.
In fact it is normally 10% +2 mph.

 

I meant tester and someone else was saying something about hitting the kerb in their test in this thread

 

you could mean the pope hit anything its a fail FACT